It's good to get this into perspective, mages got SUCH a huge boost, this really is a tiny reduction in comparison to what was added in the expansion. Overall mages are still hugely more powerful than pre-update.
%100 agree, but dont you think that ice and fire attunement's were the problem as opposed to Ice blast being it? I'm not sure if mages are inner-balanced anymore Admin. Ice build isnt the way to go since Ice blast is basically useless, this causes a chain reaction, ice attunement is then useless, ice lure isnt worth it anymore because fire builds are so much more powerful, Then lure of ice isnt worth its skills points, ice shards isnt useful. I'm sure we are balanced with other classes but our class is still so off balance. I used 30+ redbooks to find the best build for mages and after this, well basically since Firestorm is needed, Firebolt is needed, ice attunement is needed, lure of fire is needed. Do you see where I'm going with this? Ice and fire arnt balanced skills. Therefore Mages arnt balanced a debuff for mages was needed, but sadly the wrong skills were debuffed.
I know another patch will have to wait, but maybe the mage community needed to be contacted with before totally changing our skills. Iceblast may have seen like one skill, but it actually is the one skill that balanced mages and now it is useless. I hope you take this to heart, Admin, I am a leading mage in a clan and they come to me for help, but what am I suppose to give them now.
New fix:
Reduce ice and fire attunement by %25
Reduce all damage attacks except for Firebolt by %10
Even that wouldn't totally work out Dean, attunements are actually less of a DPS increase than simply including another skill so nerfing them wouldn't matter much. In my opinion a fair nerf would have been something like
Reduce Ice shards/Iceblast damage by 10% (longer cooldowns, less % lost)
Reduce Firestorm/Firebolt damage by 15% (quicker cooldowns, more % lost)
I guarantee that alone would give rogues the DPS lead again as they've come to expect and it wouldn't completely neuter Ice as a viable spec which this change did.
