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It's also important to note that Blizzard hasn't tipped its hand at
all with regards to Alter Time or any other mage spells. We don't know whether it's on their list or not. But if not Alter Time, then what? Close examination of the cheapest wow gold mage toolkit may reveal some bloat, but it's not really that much overall. I counted (as a Fire mage) 39 unique spells in my spellbook. That excludes duplicates such as Polymorphs, and Arcane/Dalaran Brilliance. Of those spells, 23 of them are keybound within easy reach. The most obvious and glaring buttons most mages wouldn't miss are all of the level 90 talents, particularly Rune of Power and Invocation. I would shed no tears over their entire removal. Gut that tier and remake it into something else and that'd be fine by me. It's easy to point to things like Conjure Refreshment, but they've explicitly stated that they're targeting abilities that are often used and part of a primary rotation or priority system. So we can't escape the axe by offering up a sacrificial mana bun. Another area of confusion we have right now are AoE spells. We have Arcane Explosion, Flamestrike, and Blizzard. For conal spells, we have Cone of Cold and Dragon's Breath -– CoC being a damaging slow, and DB being a damaging disorient. These could be made spec-specific (and add an Arcane version, Nether Vortex or something). As for the other AoEs, call me old school but I liked when my AoE was generally related to the spec. It feels odd to be in melee spamming Arcane Explosion as a fire mage. It feels odd not to use Blizzard as a frost mage. And I still miss Blast Wave, RIP. If there's an area for cleaning up mage spells, I'd put forward the AoE spell group as an obvious choice. Whether it's consolidating or boosting the efficacy of some of these spells or making them spec specific, we probably don't need all of them in every spec. Bombs don't seem too bad in terms of ability bloat, since you can only have one at a time anyway and you never have to swap them in and out on your bars. Some spells that perform a similar function could also be made spec specific; so Arcane/Fire mages would let go of Ice Lance and Arcane/Frost wouldn't have Fire Blast. For Fire, Inferno Blast has a cooldown so perhaps Ice Lance serves a useful purpose in being an instant cast, occasional use spell with no cooldown. Frostfire Bolt could honestly go and be replaced by either a beefy Frostbolt or a Fireball for Brain Freeze purposes. Elementalist specs were a brief possibility during Wrath but since then Frostfire Bolt has languished as a sort of oddball, slushy spell that's not viable as a primary nuke and only used for Brain Freeze procs. It does have a nice graphic, though. We here in the gold is very cheap! http://www.wly.com
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