Senelin

Charm Really Blows, Hostage Does too, What in the fuck are we supposed to do?
Possession is fine in theory at least, but use it in game, you'll soon be deceased.
At least they gave us a spell we will cast, but why did it have to suck so much ass?

Less principle more practice! Ticks on swing!

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Cenarius

THE MORE PEOPLE EAT AE'S THE MORE DPS WE ARE ABLE TO DO!

Torrent

RL: "Cawti, why are you cheering? We all died!"

Me: "True, but just look at my DPS!"

Duress

I feel like a broken record, but it's worth repeating: it's still early in the expansion. Once everyone is geared up, we will probably take a hit and/or slide back down to our typical "rank" in DPS for the variety of fights one encounters during raiding. While SOME mobs seem to be casting more, I don't know that it's going to be enough to make us any more desirable because we still kinda suck for utility and that right there is the deal-breaker.

Nevermind that the uselessness of power drains is something that still remains unresolved. (And that's a big fucking deal, imho. Prompts us to wonder why bother continue giving the blue bar to raid mobs and why bother keeping pdrains attached to a random assortment of our spells.)

So to answer your question, yes, stuff needs fixing. If my guess is correct, two months from now every other class will have caught up and surpassed any progress we feel we've made, and more specifically, melee reactives will proc less as tanks gear up and people's debuffs are upgraded.

The fucked up thing is that some of us cry for DPS because our utility sucks and we see our counterparts capable of parsing extremely well (ignoring for the moment the fact their utility is highly desirable). But at the end of the day, giving us a DPS boost is a band-aid to bigger issues with the class design. =/

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Revel

You guys are slogan-tastic. I've got no ideas unfortunately as to something short and sweet, cuz there are too many friggin' problems to address.

As far as DPS: I'm already falling from the parse lists as other classes get their spell and weapon upgrades and our MT gets armored out. (I lucked into several of my masters early on). Generally I struggle to hit 2k on the easier zones, and hover around 3k on the difficult ones. I can spike up to 3.5k with a troub and a mob that ae's, but I'm consistently left in the dust by the other mages and their 4k+ parses if everyone's on the ball.

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Dredd

"Ankthay ouyay Onysay orfay impinggay outway ethay Oercerscay."

Xrin

Coercer: Because I'm too lazy to betray.

Xrin

While I was trying to be funny with my slogan, allow me to add the disclaimer that I'm actually a huge fan of my class and wouldn't betray simply becuase I love being a Coercer.

Senelin

that is a good one though xrin lol

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Duress

I lol'd too. =(

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