Frenetic Speed, Scorch, and you in 7.1.5

[Woke]

****Please Note: This is purely theoretical and suggestions to address a possible issue with a talent and artifact addressing the same thing***

Looking ahead at 7.1.5: We are getting a new talent called "Frenetic Speed" which reads:

Casting Scorch increases your movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds.

We have an artifact talent called "Scorched Earth" which reads:

Casting scorch grants you 5% movement speed stacking up to 5 times.

Since this talent is a faster but less duration ability that is extremely similar to the scorch artifact trait, I propose the following change to the artifact trait:

Scorched Earth: If you scorch a target with Ignite, it automatically spreads ignite to all targets within "x" yards.

Since you have to get 3/3 Flamestrike before getting this talent, I felt like taking an AoE approach made sense, so this would be an easy way at the end of combustion to throw a scorch in and spread ignite to everything extremely quickly. It also rewards you using scorch after big pyros to quickly spread the damage.

Thoughts? Do you have suggestions on how to avoid a situation where we have an artifact trait and a talent which provide similar movement speed increases?

[lowska]

The solution most mages probably want is to keep ice floes.

[Eyliria]

Simply put, don't count on us getting Ice Floes back.

They are doubling down on it with the scorch 20% buff and the new Norgannon effect (after 8 seconds of standing still, gain 5 seconds of casting while moving once you start moving - not restricted to a single spellcast)

It would make very little sense to have either of these if they were considering undoing the Ice Floes change.

[Rikx]

Mages aren't the only ones who can equip Norgannon's.

[lowska]

On can always hope we get the floes back, however, the boots are still terrible and the scorch talent is retarded, seeing exactly how we already have a similar one in our artifacts.

They are trying to fix what wasn't broken, thereby fixing nothing and breaking more things.

A 20% buff to scorch means nothing, it is, and always will be shit, that is, in its current iteration. If it procced kindling, it might actually be worth using.

[Myrxx]

Honestly, the only reason we are missing Ice Floes so badly on PTR is because Scorch is just ... it isn't great. It's a weaker, faster Fireball that interacts with less traits/talents. If they made Scorch better I'd be happy to Scorch during movement, and it wouldn't make me sad to get the Scorch belt (which people also dislike primarily because Scorch is not great).

The current problem is that on live Fireball does not hit very hard, and really we only use it to generate Hot Streak! Scorch is a watered down Fireball, so of course there is no incentive at all to cast it on live.