No new spells in TSO, so will we fall behind?

[Fendaria]

<div></div><div>I'm probably going to state this poorly but I've been wondering...</div><div></div><div>Sorcs aren't getting any new spells in TSO (least I haven't seen any announcements).  All of our DPS comes from our spells and spells themselves aren't getting any better.  (No Master 3 or ancient versions or what have you either that I'm aware of).</div><div></div><div>Scouts get a good chunk of their DPS from auto attack, not just CAs.  I can't imagine their auto attack DPS isn't going to go up from getting better weapons.</div><div></div><div>Now you could argue that sorcs will get more +base damage items or something than scouts, but I just can't imagine they will be balancing out things to that degree.  More likely at the end of the expansion and some points in between we will have very comparable +base damage (or whatever stat).</div><div></div><div>Thus it feels like our DPS is going to be falling behind.  What is going to make up for it?</div><div></div><div>Is there something I am missing?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Fendaria</div>

[Vonotar]

<cite>Fendaria wrote:</cite><blockquote><div></div><div>I'm probably going to state this poorly but I've been wondering...</div><div></div><div>Sorcs aren't getting any new spells in TSO (least I haven't seen any announcements).  All of our DPS comes from our spells and spells themselves aren't getting any better.  (No Master 3 or ancient versions or what have you either that I'm aware of).</div><div></div><div>Scouts get a good chunk of their DPS from auto attack, not just CAs.  I can't imagine their auto attack DPS isn't going to go up from getting better weapons.</div><div></div><div>Now you could argue that sorcs will get more +base damage items or something than scouts, but I just can't imagine they will be balancing out things to that degree.  More likely at the end of the expansion and some points in between we will have very comparable +base damage (or whatever stat).</div><div></div><div>Thus it feels like our DPS is going to be falling behind.  What is going to make up for it?</div><div></div><div>Is there something I am missing?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Fendaria</div></blockquote>Considering there is no cap increase, I don't see how anybody can 'fall behind' anybody else.  All CA's, stats, spells etc will be exactly the same as they are now, barring a few new AA's (which nobody knows about outside of the beta forums).There may be better weapons in TSO, but i'm sure there will also be better gear (or more opportunies to get 'better gear' of comparible stats to the current 'leet' gear) for other slots, other classes.I don't see the concern

[Teh_Person]

The concern is that melee fighters benefit from new gear much more than mages tend to. Mages tend to benefit the most from getting new spells, and keeping those spells upgraded to the maximum capacity. If their spells are not upgraded, their base damage change is exactly 0. Melee classes, however, have a huge increase in speed and damage of auto-attack (which is frankly already over the top, and can only be foreseen as getting worse). The only solution I can see is SE offering a LOT of base damage increases to spell damage, or a LOT of bonuses to casting/recast speed of spells if mages are going to compete.

[iceriven2]

there will be 60 new AA's and someone did release all of them on another site even though it broke the nda... to be honest i am not sure if what u would conside what wizards got good or not.