Originally Posted by
Drew
Oh wow, they moved haste to 535 and it looks like they nerfed the effect on top of that? Did they kill war wizards? Seems like a pretty shitty time if you can't even possibly do it until you are level 35, at best.
They fucked wizards about as hard as they possibly could.
Rapid Fire got nerfed.
Immolate got nerfed.
Haste got nerfed and moved to 535, 506 was replaced with Celerity which also reduces RT. Haste reduces RT for mostly non-combat stuff, Celerity reduces RT for mostly combat (and foraging for some dumbass reason), and both require a lot of air lore just to be on par with 0 lore pre-nerf Haste. It's pretty gay all around.
415 got buffed and then "fixed" i.e. nerfed
Lore requirements got scattered everywhere and half of them are unreliable slot machine procs that are typically weak as shit anyway.
Basically pure wizards got annihilated by Estild's shitty ideas and war mages are still good. 917 did get a major buff and is useful now though, at least against soft targets that aren't immune to crits. 950 is good but has cooldowns, 550 is a good panic button with a daily cooldown. Good stuff but not nearly enough to offset the nerfs, and wizards still don't have a reliable single target kill spell. We mostly just spam bolts until they run out of HP now and it's pretty fucking boring and Estild is probably mad that we're not grateful for him raping wizards with a cheese grater jackhammer dildo. The wizard forums went nuts for several months just from the announcement that nerfs were coming later, and Estild basically ignored all of it and a bunch of wizards quit after it went live and Estild for the most part wouldn't listen to feedback despite the numbers indicating how shitty these nerfs are and how they do nothing but make things less fun for no good reason. Apparently the driving force behind haste and rapid fire nerfs were from them being used on other professions, making them really OP, so naturally the solution is to nerf it across the board and wreck it for self casting wizards too.
TLDR: Estild ruined wizards and the Elemental Lore Review was the biggest joke ever and only top tier idiots like Krakii think it's good.