Best part about it is that there are legit multiple ways to spec and be more than viable. While some of the points on the trees may be meh, the fact is that every one of the abilities themselves are legit. The flexibility to play your way is one of the things that drew me to New World to begin with. Hopefully they do the other reworks with this kind of concept in mind going forward. Very very good start!
Exactly I just started playing a few days ago and I am loving this game I played it a few years ago I want to say it was 20/20 and then they kept pushing it back and I canceled my pre-order cuz I was kind of disappointed with what we got It felt like a more beautiful but watered down elder scrolls. And it was PVP focused and I've been playing MMOs since I was 15 PVP focused MMOs always end up with a small niche population and they don't ever go anywhere. PvE is what's going to give an MMO longevity and I'm happy that they still included PVP cuz I like the PvP aspect of the game currently but PvE should have been their main focus when it comes to major content and all that other stuff. Most people who play MMOs just don't care about PVP like that or they want it to be like a special game mode but you know people don't want to get off to work to feel like they have to work again not everyone wants to make their relaxing experience a competition. But anyway sorry for the little rant I am enjoying the game I love the new weapons they didn't have the gauntlets when I played and so I'm playing a void gauntlet with secondary ice gauntlet but I kind of wish the void melee wouldn't deactivate when you swap I kind of wish it would just automatically convert all your attacks until Melee or the buff just stays when you swap and then when you swap back you're still in melee. It makes me feel like a some kind of magic swordsman , magical knight or something. And I love the damage of a time aspect of it I don't mind damaged over time abilities especially with how quickly they tick in this game. I hope they continue because of the system that they currently have adding new weapons which will add diversity and since the ice gauntlet got a tower I'm wondering if they could add in like a tone weapon and you could be a summoner or something That would be amazing but I know they won't do it most games avoids summons because of balancing
The heavy attacks go through block. That is not good in my opinion. Every mechanic should have counter play, especially a low resource intensive move like a heavy basic attack that has no CD. I'm ok with FS doing a ton of dps. There has to be counter play available for players to survive it though.
Actually can’t wait for AGS to go through all of the original weapons and give them a rework like this. This looks so good. As a fire staff main from the beginning of the game I’m very excited for this update.
its about time firestaff becomes real meta, last time the weapon was even on the niech for wars, was when the empowering meteor shower was bugged and got stacks from the crit burn. and even then it was specifically to give the bb more damage.
Nice video. Thx for sharing. A question plz, or a test to make : Does a proc buff with meteor shower (like keenly speed or keenly fortify) will stay After swapping weapon ? Thx
Just came to the game after over 6 months. ngl Idk what you mean by you shouldn't use any of the mana skills. I tried playing without it and I run out of mana every time...even against a single enemy. So I put a point into spell focus and arsons advantage and it works 10x better for me. I no longer have mana issues and I'm able to refresh my abilities a lot faster allowing me to get a lot more damage out and more fluently.
wow, thank you ags. i am close melee fighter, not a bruiser, so in general meta changes from Range Bow Meta, to Range Fire Staff Meta. Wow, what a change! Thanks AGS one more time
Recently i returned to the game. (after having quit first month of game on release) first thing i noticed is. dodging still makes a difference, you can def "outplay" people. (doing dmg is another thing though lol). second thing i noticed. You can't doge firestaff, and 80% of the time i die to fire staff in OPR. OP? idk. Def not the dps you wanna run into as a returning player with no elemental defense.
oooo might be time to break my FS main gear back out!! Stopped running with it as much because of how non-mut friendly it is, but with that changing and this rework? Oooooo might be time to reignite that fire in our relationship 😋 Oh baby, and with being able to swap gear sets? Oh man it's shaping up to be a sweet update.
finally firestaff is viable in lv 60 dungeon runs and mutas. i mean it always way ok in pvp and in pve lv 1-60 but it was literally useless and people didnt take me into runs because i play mage.
IMO, fire staff was already OP, especially the flamethrower ability. This is the reason lots of players want to use fire staff in outpost rush. A lot of people are also using fire staff flamethrower in expeditions. The flamethrower feature seems to push players away, so it gives the flamethrower player an ability to keep others away, while also doing OP damage.
if it was op it would do well in wars and expeditions. sadly its just a statpad weapon that is unable to do meaningful damage in large scale pvp. if you want ranged dmg, you take bb, bow or musket. firestaff has not been meta for almost a year, its about time it gets some attention, idc about the flamethrower, delete it from the game for all i care, its a pussy ability used by bots who wants to statpad in wars or oprs.
@@Obtite I have seen lots of people using it in expeditions and ECR boss fights. I have also seen 3 vs flamethrower man in outpost rush... and the flamethrower wins.
As one of Valhalla's top fs users my opinion is the following: I'm totally fine with live server fs. I don't think it needs a rebalance. I've seen other top players switching to it and not being good with it. As of today I can take on any other fs player (or any other player in general) on Valhalla confidently. Sometimes it is 1vx and I still feel confident. The reworks otherwise are a bit tricky. I thought that's going to be a massive buff. But from my point of view, it is what it is. A rework. They took things, they gave things. I constantly run out of mana (but there are the op unbalanced 100% potions, so it's not a big deal.) The fs never lacked cc. FS is a weapon with various skills that can be paired with other weapons. It's a choice to play it as that. You can go in between 3 healers and 2 archers to focus on you instead of healing the bruisers. Pillar of fire with fireball always been massive when you land it on a group. So.. I don't see why there's no cc??? If you are shooting from the back randomly, sure. There's no cc. About the changes: Pillar of fire got a rework. It equals out, the cast time is barely noticeable to someone who always used it. Meteor shower is for stat padders - never used it. Fireball got a small rework. It equals out. Flamethrower is for bots. Nothing changed. And those that can be killed with flamethrower.. Man.. -.- Incinerate - it got a bit faster but overall, it is still slow and pointless in general. Burnout got reworked again. They changed it to be more defensive. Otherwise, the boom at the end is just an effect. It means you won't really make a use of it. Overall, it's just a little rework. The fs is the same as before. Only those that didn't play it think it got buffed.
i agree, that fire staff didn't need a buff the only issue was gs/bow being to strong, so you had a really hard time playing mage. also right now, there are many different fs builds that work. pillar and incinerate are lacking, but i don't really see how the changes are going to fix that, as pillar even becomes worse than a heavy attack with the buff of heavy attacks.
Yesterday in OPR people already started switching to FS and it's oppressive. I assume everyone trying to gear up for it. FS is strong now because, here's a shock everyone, it's a 2 weapon game....
I’ve been waiting for this day… I have a empowering fireball, keenly empowered, and flame attunement FS I’ve been waiting to sell. Looking like I’ll be able to get 800k gold for it👍🏼
imo emp fireball has never been a good perk to put on your firestaff (one of the reasons why many fire staff players don't perform well) with the new update, when it's only for targets above 50% it's even more wasted potential when you put that on your weapon and there's the chance that the mage community will move away from emp fireball on weapon bc of that. so 800k gold is absolutely unrealistic, even 80k gold would be too high, as fire staff is the only weapon that works well with crit, crafting a bis firestaff takes most likely less than 10 attemps and even when dropping fire staff, you have high chances to get a near bis fire staff with how high the chances are of getting crit perks. even if fire staff becomes meta, (almost) BIS Weapons won't cost 1-3million gold like it's the case for greataxe also for another reason, that you might be able to use a wider range of perks to make up your firestaff, while greataxe always has been very specific BIS items.
Firestaff is already in a good spot. It's high spammable damage and burnout is a great escape or aggressive speed burst. Players keep asking e ery weapon to do everything but it's a 2 weapon game. That's the point
Exploding heavies is ridiculous, they'll be giving bow heavies explosions next. The size increase of pillar (>50% more area) is totally not necessary with the damage already being buffed and the size increase of rune is amusing but otherwise almost pointless. As always they went overboard when trying to balance a weapon.
the fire staff is already very strong after the latest changes, i see no reason why they make a new overpowered GS that will be hated by all... enjoy the flame and the free kills. Total meta shift instead of step by step balancing.
I really think they took a bad direction. fireball was nerfed. incinerate was made useless, it should have received fortify in addition to the faster animation. it hit for as much as a pillar now , but from MELEE range. High risk low reward spell. Either fortify on cast or an aoe stun or root. This should have been its last perk: lose the 2nd hit but stun everyone around you. FS got zero survival buffs. Burnout should have received grit or faster animation (its our only escape), so the fortify is kinda meh. Perk reworks were ok I guess, except hiting the groung procing aoe, which should be fixed. Overall, we will see a lot of FS in oprs, but im not sold about wars yet. They still die super fast. Maybe the nerfs to melee will work as indirect survivability buffs, but we gotta wait and see. Still not sold.
pillar of fire was fine. people complaining were dogshit mages who couldnt use the ability properly. but they will continue to miss and crutch flamethrower so its fine.
Yea they wil always go for the easiest route. Ive been playing pillar since the beta, it is still a strong skill, but not so easy to use, i still miss lot til today but thats is what makes it fun. To get a good pillar kill
@@ralph9245 it's a lot like ice spike, in that you have to be very precise or it basically does nothing. but leading someone into an explosion they don't see coming never gets old lol
@@DukeSloth see you’re assuming most will play light. I posit most will play medium for the fortify, spam flamethrower and hit the heavy attack detonate.
@@Ohanzea they already do now and with the fortify from burn, shirking fort and the fact the medium armor is only 500 less armor than heavy they’re already a pain to kill. Since it doesn’t seem that the resilient and shirking fort nerfs are going to affect medium at all the new meta will absolutely be medium bb/simpthrower and melee will change to spear.
Spear needs a rework to animations their just so bland and I wish it had a heavy combo not just a single animation I with it would be more like a dance or performance with a spear I love the javelin throw the kick animations but the rest seem bland
I don't know why people keep saying Fire staff was underpowered, I think it's one of the best weapons in the game if you play aggressively. Yes it lacks crowd control but that's why you compliment it with IG or BB, no weapon can have everything, well except Great Sword. In my opinion people who think live FS is bad just don't know how to use it properly. Good FS players are almost unbeatable in smaller scale PVP.
Best part about it is that there are legit multiple ways to spec and be more than viable. While some of the points on the trees may be meh, the fact is that every one of the abilities themselves are legit. The flexibility to play your way is one of the things that drew me to New World to begin with. Hopefully they do the other reworks with this kind of concept in mind going forward. Very very good start!
Exactly I just started playing a few days ago and I am loving this game I played it a few years ago I want to say it was 20/20 and then they kept pushing it back and I canceled my pre-order cuz I was kind of disappointed with what we got It felt like a more beautiful but watered down elder scrolls. And it was PVP focused and I've been playing MMOs since I was 15 PVP focused MMOs always end up with a small niche population and they don't ever go anywhere. PvE is what's going to give an MMO longevity and I'm happy that they still included PVP cuz I like the PvP aspect of the game currently but PvE should have been their main focus when it comes to major content and all that other stuff. Most people who play MMOs just don't care about PVP like that or they want it to be like a special game mode but you know people don't want to get off to work to feel like they have to work again not everyone wants to make their relaxing experience a competition.
But anyway sorry for the little rant I am enjoying the game I love the new weapons they didn't have the gauntlets when I played and so I'm playing a void gauntlet with secondary ice gauntlet but I kind of wish the void melee wouldn't deactivate when you swap I kind of wish it would just automatically convert all your attacks until Melee or the buff just stays when you swap and then when you swap back you're still in melee. It makes me feel like a some kind of magic swordsman , magical knight or something. And I love the damage of a time aspect of it I don't mind damaged over time abilities especially with how quickly they tick in this game. I hope they continue because of the system that they currently have adding new weapons which will add diversity and since the ice gauntlet got a tower I'm wondering if they could add in like a tone weapon and you could be a summoner or something That would be amazing but I know they won't do it most games avoids summons because of balancing
Hard agree. This is going to be the new standard for every weapon, the more players we get the better the game gets from here on out.
This is awesome news! I planned on returning to New World and try out mage builds anyways so this is a massive bonus.
Been a pvp fire mage main for a while now. Seeing these changes excites me! I welcome all to the band wagon
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I have spent about 500h with a fire Staff, will gladly pick it up again
The heavy attacks go through block. That is not good in my opinion. Every mechanic should have counter play, especially a low resource intensive move like a heavy basic attack that has no CD. I'm ok with FS doing a ton of dps. There has to be counter play available for players to survive it though.
I’ve heard this was a bug but I could be wrong
Great video.
Gonna try with IG. What perks should i look for to armor and weapon?
Love the new fire mage, time to reroll to have some fun again
Reroll what? Clearly you've never played New World.
activate detonate heartrune, burnout into clump, and incinerate while detonate triggers... GG
Actually can’t wait for AGS to go through all of the original weapons and give them a rework like this. This looks so good. As a fire staff main from the beginning of the game I’m very excited for this update.
its about time firestaff becomes real meta, last time the weapon was even on the niech for wars, was when the empowering meteor shower was bugged and got stacks from the crit burn. and even then it was specifically to give the bb more damage.
Best NW creator, TY so mutch
What is the difference between burn and smolder? Pyromania split it, thought it was all the same.
Only thing that bothers me is heavies can’t be blocked now… KINDA..OP for a ranged weapon
I think I’ll wait and see what Astro Bert runs for abilities 🤪
what armour build u using ? is it medium chest and light limbs
Anyone know when this is expected to go live?
PvE Firestaff users, what perk combination on the staff is your desired god roll post update? Flame Attunement + Bane + Refreshing Pillar of Fire?
imagine spaming pillar of fire in a meteor shower and stacking smolder with flamethrower, you just melt everything in a radius
Really wonder how Ref. Pillar of Fire would compare to Vicious now. If only we had DPS meters..
does trial by fire presist on weapon swap?
although I plan on playing fire staff, I am definitely concerned about the influx of mages lol
Damn. Incinerate got a huge nerf. That double hit was what made it good. That's about a 40% DMG reduction right?
With the ability to get more empower stacks, I wonder if a Heavy Battlemage type build would be viable?
I intend to find out, especially with the fortification changes ;)
Duke, I'm begging you to do math for new vs old fortify. I've heard some say its going to be useless then others say its a tank meta.
Nice video. Thx for sharing. A question plz, or a test to make : Does a proc buff with meteor shower (like keenly speed or keenly fortify) will stay After swapping weapon ? Thx
What would be your choice of weapon perks for mobile burst build with backdraft please?
Just came to the game after over 6 months. ngl Idk what you mean by you shouldn't use any of the mana skills. I tried playing without it and I run out of mana every time...even against a single enemy. So I put a point into spell focus and arsons advantage and it works 10x better for me. I no longer have mana issues and I'm able to refresh my abilities a lot faster allowing me to get a lot more damage out and more fluently.
love your videos, do you have any info about riding ? datamine ?
wow, thank you ags. i am close melee fighter, not a bruiser, so in general meta changes from Range Bow Meta, to Range Fire Staff Meta. Wow, what a change! Thanks AGS one more time
How did u get more than 100 max mana?
Recently i returned to the game. (after having quit first month of game on release)
first thing i noticed is. dodging still makes a difference, you can def "outplay" people. (doing dmg is another thing though lol).
second thing i noticed. You can't doge firestaff, and 80% of the time i die to fire staff in OPR. OP? idk. Def not the dps you wanna run into as a returning player with no elemental defense.
seams you using a shader, can you share it pls ?
Is Pillar of Fire a heavy attack?
Is it viable for m10's? im not playing NW atm but im considering coming back, one reason i left is i was tired of hatchet and rapier spam in m10 dps
Best gem to put in fire staff next patch?
Does the new heartrune get ignited gem bonus dmg?
oooo might be time to break my FS main gear back out!! Stopped running with it as much because of how non-mut friendly it is, but with that changing and this rework? Oooooo might be time to reignite that fire in our relationship 😋 Oh baby, and with being able to swap gear sets? Oh man it's shaping up to be a sweet update.
Omg now my FS and GA finaly can be useful.
finally firestaff is viable in lv 60 dungeon runs and mutas. i mean it always way ok in pvp and in pve lv 1-60 but it was literally useless and people didnt take me into runs because i play mage.
meh.. that bit Bane more.. idk
when i see my new Greatsword, hitting for 13k+ Heavy Crits..
meanwhile my Fs did max 8k Crit PoF ( on live )..
in general, almost all staggers that were helping to catch rangers will be taken away from meeles :D
Do you think firestaff Will be viable in m10 now? Will it be able to compete to the melee meta in there ?
I'm sure it would keep up in Genisis after this drops
@@RJ_037 would be cool, so sick of playing melee in dungs^^
Wow that meteor shower thou!!!
Also fire staff can also back stab now apparently. So more free crit hits.
FS has always been able to backstab. it just wasn't used much in PvE because y'know, magic weapons kinda sucked
IMO, fire staff was already OP, especially the flamethrower ability. This is the reason lots of players want to use fire staff in outpost rush. A lot of people are also using fire staff flamethrower in expeditions. The flamethrower feature seems to push players away, so it gives the flamethrower player an ability to keep others away, while also doing OP damage.
if it was op it would do well in wars and expeditions. sadly its just a statpad weapon that is unable to do meaningful damage in large scale pvp.
if you want ranged dmg, you take bb, bow or musket. firestaff has not been meta for almost a year, its about time it gets some attention, idc about the flamethrower, delete it from the game for all i care, its a pussy ability used by bots who wants to statpad in wars or oprs.
@@Obtite I have seen lots of people using it in expeditions and ECR boss fights.
I have also seen 3 vs flamethrower man in outpost rush... and the flamethrower wins.
I can’t wait
As one of Valhalla's top fs users my opinion is the following:
I'm totally fine with live server fs. I don't think it needs a rebalance. I've seen other top players switching to it and not being good with it. As of today I can take on any other fs player (or any other player in general) on Valhalla confidently. Sometimes it is 1vx and I still feel confident.
The reworks otherwise are a bit tricky. I thought that's going to be a massive buff. But from my point of view, it is what it is. A rework. They took things, they gave things.
I constantly run out of mana (but there are the op unbalanced 100% potions, so it's not a big deal.)
The fs never lacked cc. FS is a weapon with various skills that can be paired with other weapons. It's a choice to play it as that. You can go in between 3 healers and 2 archers to focus on you instead of healing the bruisers. Pillar of fire with fireball always been massive when you land it on a group. So.. I don't see why there's no cc??? If you are shooting from the back randomly, sure. There's no cc.
About the changes:
Pillar of fire got a rework. It equals out, the cast time is barely noticeable to someone who always used it.
Meteor shower is for stat padders - never used it.
Fireball got a small rework. It equals out.
Flamethrower is for bots. Nothing changed. And those that can be killed with flamethrower.. Man.. -.-
Incinerate - it got a bit faster but overall, it is still slow and pointless in general.
Burnout got reworked again. They changed it to be more defensive. Otherwise, the boom at the end is just an effect. It means you won't really make a use of it.
Overall, it's just a little rework. The fs is the same as before. Only those that didn't play it think it got buffed.
i agree, that fire staff didn't need a buff the only issue was gs/bow being to strong, so you had a really hard time playing mage.
also right now, there are many different fs builds that work.
pillar and incinerate are lacking, but i don't really see how the changes are going to fix that, as pillar even becomes worse than a heavy attack with the buff of heavy attacks.
300 int perk needs to be changed as well tbh, but i like that fs is finally in a better place :)
Every time I boot up PTR in Aus I get a perma ban message that closes the game…
Yesterday in OPR people already started switching to FS and it's oppressive. I assume everyone trying to gear up for it. FS is strong now because, here's a shock everyone, it's a 2 weapon game....
Revert the flare heavy attack aoe and keep everything else
I’ve been waiting for this day… I have a empowering fireball, keenly empowered, and flame attunement FS I’ve been waiting to sell. Looking like I’ll be able to get 800k gold for it👍🏼
imo emp fireball has never been a good perk to put on your firestaff (one of the reasons why many fire staff players don't perform well) with the new update, when it's only for targets above 50% it's even more wasted potential when you put that on your weapon and there's the chance that the mage community will move away from emp fireball on weapon bc of that.
so 800k gold is absolutely unrealistic, even 80k gold would be too high, as fire staff is the only weapon that works well with crit, crafting a bis firestaff takes most likely less than 10 attemps and even when dropping fire staff, you have high chances to get a near bis fire staff with how high the chances are of getting crit perks.
even if fire staff becomes meta, (almost) BIS Weapons won't cost 1-3million gold like it's the case for greataxe
also for another reason, that you might be able to use a wider range of perks to make up your firestaff, while greataxe always has been very specific BIS items.
You can go suck a d*** and maby get 5 gold for it.
When will this come out? Im new to the game and the fire staff felt like shit. That looks much better :'D
That taunt gem compatibility.... now I'm trying to envision using this in my tank build to aoe agro....
Tankmancer
Since my bruiser is gutted, I’ll mess with FS now
Firestaff is already in a good spot. It's high spammable damage and burnout is a great escape or aggressive speed burst. Players keep asking e ery weapon to do everything but it's a 2 weapon game. That's the point
Exploding heavies is ridiculous, they'll be giving bow heavies explosions next. The size increase of pillar (>50% more area) is totally not necessary with the damage already being buffed and the size increase of rune is amusing but otherwise almost pointless.
As always they went overboard when trying to balance a weapon.
Yeah, they either over tune a weapon or nerf it to the ground.
It’s gonna be fireball into
Meteor shower into pillar of fire combos
@@shiknara you're still commenting on the game you supposedly quit. What a loser, go outside.
It only took them a year and a half to figure this out. Unfortunately, most mage players are probably not playing the game anymore.
As a mage I’m so glad I can see a small nerf but it’ll most likely happen in PTR
I also main Ig/Vg but with this update vg/ FS will be crazy I can’t wait
I also main Ig/Vg but with this update vg/ FS will be crazy I can’t wait 😝
Love to get 1 shot by fking fire staff on the 3v3. Now they get a buff? Lovely, all you going to see now are fire staffs and healers on 3v3
New World the game that keeps on taking, your time that you can't get back ever.
the fire staff is already very strong after the latest changes, i see no reason why they make a new overpowered GS that will be hated by all... enjoy the flame and the free kills. Total meta shift instead of step by step balancing.
Fire Tank new Meta
So no more opr musk party ok good . But the fire mage invasion is coming .. same thing lmao.
looks like it's time to put away my bow and bring back my firestaff lol
I really think they took a bad direction. fireball was nerfed. incinerate was made useless, it should have received fortify in addition to the faster animation. it hit for as much as a pillar now , but from MELEE range. High risk low reward spell. Either fortify on cast or an aoe stun or root. This should have been its last perk: lose the 2nd hit but stun everyone around you. FS got zero survival buffs. Burnout should have received grit or faster animation (its our only escape), so the fortify is kinda meh. Perk reworks were ok I guess, except hiting the groung procing aoe, which should be fixed. Overall, we will see a lot of FS in oprs, but im not sold about wars yet. They still die super fast. Maybe the nerfs to melee will work as indirect survivability buffs, but we gotta wait and see. Still not sold.
Hope they rework the life staff and void gauntlet both having 2 abilities that are useless and a waste of space.
flamethrower still needs a cooldown just stupid how u can use it all the time
pillar of fire was fine. people complaining were dogshit mages who couldnt use the ability properly. but they will continue to miss and crutch flamethrower so its fine.
Yea they wil always go for the easiest route. Ive been playing pillar since the beta, it is still a strong skill, but not so easy to use, i still miss lot til today but thats is what makes it fun. To get a good pillar kill
@@ralph9245 it's a lot like ice spike, in that you have to be very precise or it basically does nothing. but leading someone into an explosion they don't see coming never gets old lol
hello ruby gems for fire absorbtion as a meta
Still think most players are going to smash simpthrower
Mhmm maybe as a meteor shower combo, but generally I think left tree is what most people will go for now, it's so much burst
@@DukeSloth see you’re assuming most will play light. I posit most will play medium for the fortify, spam flamethrower and hit the heavy attack detonate.
@@hozebeast1 I hadn't thought of that thanks for the tips.
Ppl are def going to play medium mage with flame thrower.. it’s upper annoying
@@Ohanzea they already do now and with the fortify from burn, shirking fort and the fact the medium armor is only 500 less armor than heavy they’re already a pain to kill. Since it doesn’t seem that the resilient and shirking fort nerfs are going to affect medium at all the new meta will absolutely be medium bb/simpthrower and melee will change to spear.
1 more ranged weapon that is gonna be broken like all ranged weapons
Spear needs a rework to animations their just so bland and I wish it had a heavy combo not just a single animation I with it would be more like a dance or performance with a spear I love the javelin throw the kick animations but the rest seem bland
They should give us tanks some thorns… wtf we supposed to do just stand there and get hit by all this shit?
Yeah nerfed sns and wh... Impossible to get kills now lol. Had to rely on a cc chain before, now the cc chain just tickles ppl
no it's easier
Nerf world that's what it should be called.
This is going to be broken lol
Disappointing fire mage changes, big nothing burger. I play fire mage everyday and this is not much change.
Yea I play fire on live as well, the changes are actually nerfing my build quite hard FB/PoF/FT
FIRE STAFF TANK BUILD? LETS GOOOOO
I don't know why people keep saying Fire staff was underpowered, I think it's one of the best weapons in the game if you play aggressively. Yes it lacks crowd control but that's why you compliment it with IG or BB, no weapon can have everything, well except Great Sword. In my opinion people who think live FS is bad just don't know how to use it properly. Good FS players are almost unbeatable in smaller scale PVP.