Below are forum posts from Blizzard Devs and CMs about changes to the Mage class which are planned, but not yet implemented. Only posts from the last two weeks or so are listed. To see older posts and information, see the Official Beta Forums.
| Mage | 08/22/2008: Kalgan says mages are doing too much damage (Source) |
| To be honest, our DPS tests right now are mostly worthless. Some talents aren't working correctly, some ranks of spells aren't there yet, etc. How things work is usually some designers create the spells, then other designers balance the numbers. We've done most of the design, but very little of balancing the numbers. That is what we're working on now. Initial tests showed some mage builds doing ~8K DPS while our best Rogue was doing ~3K DPS (mostly because of Frostfire Bolt and the % modifiers it currently has access to). So yea, something was wrong there, and in that sense Kalgan is right that the Mage is doing too much damage (and also the Rogue not doing enough). | |
