#23 - Oct. 3, 2006, 9:54 p.m.
Q u o t e:
Kalgan, are you guys planning to give arcane missles and the empowered talent another once over to perhaps increase arcane spells' dps output? Also are you guys more or less set that invisibility's current form is the way to go, or are you guys open to lessening or changing its restrictions, mainly im addressing the 8s fade time which has been the source of a lot of commotion on these forums for some time now.
1. We intend for Arc Missiles to have the highest dps of the nukes if you're spec'd with Empowered Arc Missiles, but at the cost of mana efficiency. In addition, it also has the potential for extremely low threat generation because of Arcane Subtlety. With the current values in BC, it seems to fit that bill pretty well.
2. Right now we're sticking with the 8sec fade time on invis, as the spell is intended to serve a few purposes.
a. Gives the mage a complete threat wipe once you finish fading (but the 8 sec fade is intended to make it come at the cost of 8 seconds worth of dps, since you're not intended to liberally go pew pew pew, poof, pew pew pew).
b. Gives the mage the potential to be untargetable by others at the start of a group pvp skirmish (assuming they don't have detect invis, which they definitely won't always have).
c. Gives the mage some potential for skipping content, but not without limit.