Mage Talent Update

[Itsallu]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/704/704665p1.html

[Jabber]

I guess thats what happens when they take away half to staff to work on Shamans......

Warlocks still > Mages

[Warcaster]

Warlocks still > Mages

Thanks for rubbing it in.

[Sepul]

so if i am remember the current ice talent correctly this patch would mean a 40% NERF to critical chance for ice mages. um... that is a pretty steep nerf considering the shit they gave in return. worst review patch yet. the paladin one was better.

[Itsallu]

Basically they moved some stuff around to make "elementalist builds" fire/ice/no arcane more viable.

Everything else is nerf or makes no real change. The only change that is somewhat helpful is Arcane Subtlery reducing threat across all schools of magic instead of just arcane.

As has been evidence in their CM/GM responses - I doubt very highly that anyone at blizzard plays something other than a Shaman/Warlock.

GG Blizzard
:cussing:

[Mak]

5% Arcane power reduction. Combustion looks interesting if the cooldown is reasonable like 3 minutes. Might have to try a elementalist spec again I guess. They seem intent on nerfing mage spike damage potential... :cussing:

[Itsallu]

Elementalist could be interesting - but it will be a total mana drain...

Almost wonder if some form of tri-spec is now doable (just enough in Arcane to lower resists)...

All that being said - I am extremely disappointed in this review if it does indeed look exactly like this - it makes me want to power level my hunter and priest that much more....

:twak::hitwithro:madfawk::fuckyou:cockblock

[Cynic]

*Casts deathcoil on the mage review team and rides off into the sunset

[Nom]

wtf......:cussing:


Paladins become AWESOME
locks become AWESOME
preists become AWESOME

mages get AP Nerfed, Combustion which is already lame, is NERFED, ....

they didnt mention anything about fixing bLINK.

their idea of fixing mage survivabilty is improved dampen magic ?

This patch is so gay, they did NOTHING.. Pom is still a 21 pt talent, iceblock is still 21 points. they gave us free evoke, and iae... wow thanks! sorry but this pisses me off, we waited a LOnG time for this. and get screwed. you still HAVE to have 21 pts in Arcane because of pom, so their "elemental build" is worthless and stupid. and ice shield is still worthless and combustion is even more worthless now. so most mages will still use AP.. accomplished nothing.

they REMOVED improved nova and shatter only does 10% WTF!
Ice got the worst nerf of all. And they want to get rid of AP fire mages, they just got rid of a lot of mages , now the warlock rate
will triple.

edit: and ROFL at them finally giving mages a reduce threat spell that isnt needed anymore since AP is nerfed and Icemages can never crit anything. and i thought the constant nerfing of mages for the last 4 patches was because they were planning on bumping up overall mage dmg. Nope, just gradual nerfing so they could hit us with a big one. Rank 7 food was the best thing in the patch how surprising. PF Is dead to me

[Thwak]

yeah i didnt catch it but did they remove the extra 50% damage frost gets on crits too? frost got majorly nerfed the others didnt get improved and were minorly nerfed. i suppose ice/fire got a minor buff however with pom at 21 arcane elementalist is still the gimpiest build for pvp where instant cast is all matters.