GC - Total Dumbass.

[Enhasa]

Ghostcrawler, the total dumbass that aggravates us all when he opens his mouth to talk about our class. Much like our politicians in washington who don't know jack about shit yet still try to talk and propose legislation like they do, Ghostcrawler says things about [insert class here] that are pretty much always incorrect, off point, or just plain silly.

C/P'ing his latest rehtardery just because.

Some of you Fire mages are having too much fun ranting in this thread instead of focusing on what I was actually saying.

Is Arcane generally above Fire? Yes. The difference may only be 10% though, and Fire is still above many damage specs. Is Arcane so much higher than Fire than Marks is to Survival? Not really. Yet we see more Survival hunters (in this particular data set on one boss) than we do Fire mages. Clearly more is going on that players just gravitating towards whichever spec does the most damage. (The key word is "just." Players definitely like specs that deliver the most damage, but that does not appear to be the sole governing concern in this case.)

There are a lot of things contributing to Arcane beating other mages. Incanter's Absorption is probably way too good in conjunction with kind Disc priests. Arcane benefits a lot on movement fights like PP. Arcane benefits a lot from using those Innervates that the Fire mage can't really use and the healers (for the moment at least) don't really need. As Lhivera points out, Frost can do decent (not stellar) given the chance, but fights like Marrowgar really exploit (in a bad way) Frost's relative lack of pushback resistance.

We'd like to get the mages closer together, and that's something we're still going to work on. ("Wait until Cataclysm" is something snarky players like to say more than we do.) What we don't want to do is suddenly catapult Frost up ahead of Arcane such that every mage feels like they have to change... again. Close, without going over, is kind of the mantra at this stage.

Arcane is totally better for movement fights, yeahhh...

[Bustah]

Every time he says something about Hunters I feel the same way.

[Lobo]

At least he acknowledges your class' existence. I pray that someday he will say druid, because then its only another 5 years to wait till he mentions feral.