My Responce to "The Instance"

I am a long time listener of "The Instance" and I couldn't help myself but to respond to a discussion they had about mages. They had been hearing that a large number of mages were complaining that the class was no longer a dps powerhouse and were no longer fun to play. I have a mage of my own and I can say without any doubt that they are not hurting for dps output. What I have seen and heard from my guild members and other raiders that I have contact with is that Mages and Shamans are both complaining that they no longer enjoy playing their character or that they can't put out the same amount of damage. The players that are complaining are all lazy players that enjoyed the one button play that they used to have and now they have timers and cooldowns and multiple spells to cast. They will have poor dps if they try to play with the BC play style. Theses players have all migrated to DK's and other classes but they aren't proforming well in any class because Blizzard has made sure no class has a free ride and everyone must watch timers and cast more than one spell. Our guild went thru a period with no mages or Elemental shammies early in WTLK because changes to the play style was just to difficult for many to adjust to. Even my hunter buddies are having a bit of time adjusting to dealing with timers and cooldowns instead of casting macros of old but they are willing to work at it so they can top the dps charts nightly.

I am going to have to put together a list of mods that I use that will help increase your dps. I run a huge number of mods so this might take me a few days.