Blue poster Crygil became the bearer of bad news to the mage community as he posted the announcement of the hotfix to change a Hot Streak mechanic concerning Living Bomb. Hot Streak will only proc off non periodic damage
and only off Fireball, Fire Blast, Scorch, Living Bomb, or Frostfire Bolt.
Blizzard hit two birds with one stone here, the first being solving the bug concerning the periodic damage from Frostfire Bolt and Fireball being counted towards breaking the Hot Streak. As you know you need two consecutive crits from the spells above to trigeer it. The second is that since …read more

Just the other day, Ghostcrawler hinted at giving mages some more use for all that spirit that was quite plentiful in a lot of mage gear out there, even the ones coming in Ulduar. Warlocks get a bonus from spirit for their life tap and fel armor abilities but Ghostcrawler wanted mages to get a non-damage modifying bonus. Well according to MMO Champion, the new PTR build 9704 actually changes the spell Molten Armor to do just that. the crit bonus of both Molten Armor and the Glyph of Molten Armor now gives the crit bonus based on spirit, instead …read more