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.

Post from: WOW Obsessed

Molten Armor now causes 170 Fire damage when hit for all ranks (Up from 75/130/170) and also increases your critical strike rating by 25% of your spirit.

Glyph of Molten Armor — Your Molten Armor grants an additional 15% of your spirit as critical strike rating. (Old – Your Molten Armor spell grants an additional 2% critical strike chance.)

mage casts molten armor

So while mages finally have use for some of that spirit that comes with their gear, it’s probably not the kind of change they wanted. The most obviously affected are those people who don’t really stack spirit since their crit chance will go down when using Molten Armor compared to what it currently is in live. This includes those people who do a lot of PvP since PvP gear doesn’t have a lot of spirirt and crit is pretty important in PvP. In PvE, it seems like this is also a problem since mages will be forced to stack a lot of spirit just to match the crit they currently have.

I think this would have been a nice idea if spirit just added to the existing 3% crit chance molten armor gives, not replace it. After all the idea was just supposed to give a bonus for having the spirit and not to force mages to stack it.

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