Every week, WoW Insider brings you Arcane Brilliance for arcane, fire and frost mages. This week, we dispel mage-related myths, expose wizardly untruth, and separate magical fact from fiction … just like the Mythbusters, only with more Fireballs.

You may not believe this, but lately I’ve been finding something more annoying than the continued existence of warlocks. I know, I know. Crazy, right? What could possibly be more annoying than our emo-loving, Hot Topic-frequenting, mascara-laden, parent-hating nemesises? Nemesi? Apparently the dictionary says «nemesis» is its own plural, which is just … boring.

Anyway, the answer to the question that I just pretended you asked is this:

«Mages are a two-button class.» — The internet

These days, you literally can’t post the word «mage» anywhere on the web without someone, usually multiple people, posting some poorly spelled, perplexingly punctuated amalgam of the above words. It’s usually intended as an indictment of the class, a dismissal of what non-mages feel is the simplistic nature of of our major DPS spell rotations. The assumption is that mages are an easy, boring class to play, that one could be a successful mage simply by drunkenly alternating pressing two buttons.

For a very long time, it was easy for me to ignore this. It was stupid, and false, and perpetuated by non-mages who were either clear trolls or outright ignorant. But lately, I’ve been hearing self-deprecating versions of this same phrase from actual, honest-to-goodness mages. Are we really buying into the ignorant assumptions of the rest of the community? It was at that moment that I realized that it was time I addressed what I call the two-button myth.Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: The two-button mage mythFiled under: Mage, Analysis / Opinion, (Mage) Arcane BrillianceArcane Brilliance: The two-button mage myth originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Arcane Brilliance for arcane, fire and frost mages. This week, we dispel mage-related myths, expose wizardly untruth, and separate magical fact from fiction … just like the Mythbusters, only with more Fireballs.

You may not believe this, but lately I’ve been finding something more annoying than the continued existence of warlocks. I know, I know. Crazy, right? What could possibly be more annoying than our emo-loving, Hot Topic-frequenting, mascara-laden, parent-hating nemesises? Nemesi? Apparently the dictionary says «nemesis» is its own plural, which is just … boring.

Anyway, the answer to the question that I just pretended you asked is this:

«Mages are a two-button class.» — The internet

These days, you literally can’t post the word «mage» anywhere on the web without someone, usually multiple people, posting some poorly spelled, perplexingly punctuated amalgam of the above words. It’s usually intended as an indictment of the class, a dismissal of what non-mages feel is the simplistic nature of of our major DPS spell rotations. The assumption is that mages are an easy, boring class to play, that one could be a successful mage simply by drunkenly alternating pressing two buttons.

For a very long time, it was easy for me to ignore this. It was stupid, and false, and perpetuated by non-mages who were either clear trolls or outright ignorant. But lately, I’ve been hearing self-deprecating versions of this same phrase from actual, honest-to-goodness mages. Are we really buying into the ignorant assumptions of the rest of the community? It was at that moment that I realized that it was time I addressed what I call the two-button myth.Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: The two-button mage mythFiled under: Mage, Analysis / Opinion, (Mage) Arcane BrillianceArcane Brilliance: The two-button mage myth originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. | Permalink | Email this | Comments