We just strongly suspect that there has been an exodus of institutional knowledge from Blizzard Design teams as of late because it just seems like the Class Designers are very new and haven't worked on Mage before, so we're seeing them repeat mistakes made even in Dragonflight, and even from a few builds ago.
I'm of mixed feelings right now on Mage. I guess I'm glad to be a rework focus and have attention to fix our issues, and I'm glad that we are powerful. It just feels very sloppy to me as a Mage to see such messy iteration, rush jobs and confusion from the class designers. I'd like to play Fire and Frost and not be trolling.
I'd also like for Mage to receive consistent, good, smart and fast changes build by build, iteration by iteration. It's one thing to make a mistake which we are forgiving of, it's another to make a dumb one or a really old mistake.
Primarily because once you clean up Mage, you can clean up the other classes and I benefit from other classes being better designed because I get to play with more specs which makes MY gameplay richer.

















