So blizzard listened to every mage currently playing the game as they screamed WHAT THE FUCK at our new talents and abilities in contrast with other classes and have so far redone many talents in the arcane tree (which is really looking nice now imo). If they do as big a revamp on fire and frost shit'll be dandy and I imagine they will because lots and lots and lots have stated with no bullshit they would have quit or rerolled if the beta talents weren't redesigned.

yet all of it still pales in comparison to other classes

pretty standard

next they'll make living bomb CHANNELED

Don't even fucking joke about that.

edit: also idk, some of that shit seems really nice to me. Magic Absorbtion is now rockin and with new mage armour (which is good in wotlk) we'll have 120 magic resistance all the while. With the new invis countdown and new prismatic cloak it's a 1 second thing which is nice. Missile Barrage is also fucking cool imo and with that new netherwind presence (which I don't like as much as the old one) and icy veins AM is going to be even more nuts than it was before mystical skyfire diamond got nerfed.

I mean I'll grant you there's no WTF BIG DEATHKNIGHT EXPLOSIONS or anything but I don't really want that shit anyway.

I also really wish mages would stop saying they need deep freeze to be instant cast because it would be worse than the 1.5 cast it has atm. 3.5 seconds cast time on a target you can stun with novas or maybe save the fuckin stun for winter's grasp procs (which procs off ICE LANCES c'mon) and have 5 seconds to cast away.

I demand more survivability for priests!

Are you kidding

Okay. More AoE.

They're getting a shadow talent for that or something, aren't they?

Mind Sear rank 2
Causes an explosion of shadow magic around the enemy target, causing 212 to 228 Shadow damage every 1 sec for 5 sec to all enemies within 10 yards around the target.
(2890 Mana, Channeled, 30 yd Range)

2890 mana? Holy fuck?!

I guess casters are going to get massive increases in mana then. This will make for some interesting +Intellect gear.

Yeah, big increases in int and spirit. They're changing the way spirit works to make it better I think too.

Like a faster regeneration rate or something?

idk, I guess. They're trying to make gear more GENERIC between classes I think, like all classes benefitting from spirit (mages currently couldn't care less about it) and they're merging +healing and +spelldmg into Spell Power or something. I also read somewhere that a portion of your spirit (like 15% I think it was) would be converted into spell crit rating on top of the regen to make it a more desirable stat.

so since there's a thread on sa for this i thought WHY NOT

Post here reasons why you (YOU) deserve a person's extra beta key. If we're lucky some asshole who works for blizzard or some guy in a SUPER GUILD will have extras. LET'S GO

Name: Douglas
Job: Fighter

why do i deserve a beta key? I WAS FUCKED OUT OF ONE on a contest on sa that i won, but that is neither here or there. I deserve a beta key because i love harry potter books, i work very hard for a senator for NO MONEY and enjoy harassing people in wow as much as possible. I have convinced at least 12 pubbies that LINDSAY LOHAN along with other celebrities, are in goon squad, which isn't that hard since aformentioned people still believed we pay to be in the guild

i am a good guy and will BLOG MY EXPERIENCES on a blog that i will make and you can read it

how does that sound

i am also a really great guy and help old women across the street

plus i told panda i'd let him use the account so if you like THAT GUY WHO WILL NEVER PLAY AGAIN but might hold an inkling of seeing how sinister strike scales with deadliness and a mob with 2340 armor with serrated blades judged with seal of command and hit by a frostbolt but only underwater, then you should do this as well.

ok post why you should get one i guess

I demand more survivability for priests!

lol

-_-

I already have a key.

I do find the whole +spell and +healing merge a little odd because now all casters will be rolling on the same gear. And you got to feel sorry for caster DPS if they're going to be overlooked for healers. Every 70 should have multiple gear anyway. Besides, tanks are going to be need tanking gear then we have to go out and look for DPS gear, as well.

Well I dunno, I heard something about them changing the way ret talents work so that warrior gear is suitable for them as well or something. I guess they're trying it make it so more gear drops but more people roll on each thing.