Mage Class Q&A Released

Not too long ago, Blizzard released a Q&A feature on the shaman class to give players an idea about how the development team views the direction of the class. Now it’s time to join Ghostcrawler once again to do the same thing for the mage class. Below are the most important points but I still recommend you read the whole thing here.

mage casting frostfire bolt

First of all the development team is going to look at all three mage trees and gear so that as much as possible a single stat isn’t valued over another for a certain spec and worthless for another (like stacking crit over haste or vice versa). All the more this is an issue because some mages are actually finding that for this reason, some items in naxx are superior to some items in Ulduar.

In the issue of mana recovery, the devs are more inclined to just lower the cost of the main nuke spells (fireball, frostbolt, frostfire bolt and arcane blast) rather than do something to mana gems and evocation.

The devs are also thinking of changing Spellsteal because it’s sort of become just a regular dispell rather than something cool. They’re thinking of changing it so that the mage can only steal buffs that are beneficial to him/her. This could be a buff in the sense that you’ll steal something useful instead of say an attack power buff that doesn’t benefit you at all. But this could also be a nerf in that if you wanted to steal that attack power buff to weaken the enemy, you won’t be able to. They’re also considering a glyph that allows the mage to steal two buffs at once.