Agreed. Have been trying to point this out to people for a long time. It honestly looks like some developers have been following me around in the game and decided,
"Hey this guy is blowing the **** out of stuff and having a blast....I almost never see him throw a wall of fire. Let's encourage this style of play and make this sort of thing easily obtainable by the masses. We'll have to nerf the **** out of wall of fire or they will never give up their crack and poor slow method of killing off mobs no matter the fun they miss out on though."
I can't hardly say a bad word about any of those changes. I will have more fun at all levels of play in the future.