Blizzard
Hello Mages. In this week's build, we've made many changes to Arcane as well as a few updates to the other specs to address recent concerns about talents and GCD usage.
General Mage Changes- Зеркальное изображение damage greatly reduced, Ледяная стрела added to all Зеркальное изображение, and while your images are active, damage taken is reduced by 20%. Зеркальное изображение direct damage will cause one of your images to dissipate.
Developers' notes: The goal is to push Зеркальное изображение away from a DPS cooldown and give it a defensive component. Now, only taking direct damage will cause an image to dissipate and there is an ICD of 2 seconds to ensure at least a 6 second uptime when taking damage.
Руна мощи has been reworked to cast at your location when you use one of either
Возгорание,
Мощь тайной магии, or
Стылая кровь, depending on your spec.
- Developers' notes: This change is aimed to help with the cast time and GCD utilization at the beginning of an encounter, while remaining viable in your opener as a high burst window.
ArcaneThe following Arcane changes are focused on reducing ramp up time, as well as opening up more talent options based on the content you're running.
- Мощь тайной магии cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
- Касание мага now generates 4 Arcane Charges on cast.
- New Talent: Власть над временем – Reduces the cooldown of Alter Time by 30 seconds. Alter Time resets the cooldown of Скачок when you return to your original location.
- Alter Time has been moved to Level 24 for Arcane mages.
- Резонанс damage per target hit with Отскакивающие молнии increased to 15% (was 10%).
- Наполнение силой removed.
Developers' notes: Касание мага will now generate 4 charges baseline. This opens up the Level 35 tier for more viable options that focus heavily on dealing AoE damage.
New Level 35 Talent:
Чародейский отголосок – Direct damage you deal to enemies affected by
Касание мага, causes an explosion that deals Arcane damage to 8 nearby enemies.
Аномалия времени now grants
Искажение времени for 6 seconds.
- Developers' notes: A simple change, but this should make Аномалия времени feel more satisfying as a talent since gaining Искажение времени is always a good thing, but gaining Arcane Charges isn't something you'd always necessarily want.
FireFire updates are centered around the change that saw
Пламя феникса baseline as the
Воспламенение spread.
Ярость Алекстразы –
Дыхание дракона now also gains a 50% increased critical strike damage bonus.
New talent:
Из пепла – Increases Mastery by 2% for each charge of Phoenix Flames off cooldown, and your direct-damage critical strikes reduce its cooldown by 1 second.