What is your stance on fire mage single target dps in comparison to arcane?
A. Fire mage is a little low. It’s also somewhat self-selecting because the most dps-obsessed players know arcane is higher and will gravitate accordingly. Fire will do better on multi-target fights, but there just haven’t been a lot of those so far. (We have adds, but they come in slowly.) Ideally fire would be closer to arcane. Q. Icecrown introduced new gameplay mechanics similar to that of platform games/consoles. Will you continue this trend in Cataclysm? A. Many of you guys and many of us have been playing WoW for a long time. We think it’s important to keep introducing new things to keep it feeling exciting and fresh. Some things work and we try and improve them over time. Some don’t work as well and we move on. We try to never move too far away from the core experience of swinging your sword / tossing a spell though. Q. Any plans to increase the size of the backpack? A. Yeah, it’s something we discuss a lot. On the other hand, the madness has to end somewhere. I’m not sure I wa
