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It's also important to note that Blizzard
By: Wenjunw Wenjunw
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.

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