5.2 Mage Update

[Zangeiti]

As you all might know that the 5.2 update has came out!. hear are some details about the update.


There are a few changes to Frost in PvP. First, the PvP set bonus only lowers the cooldown of Counterspell when it is successfully used as an interrupt, not as a silence. As we’ve said before, we think silences are too dominant in PvP, but we don’t think patch 5.2 is the right time to remove them all because we can’t also remove all of the instant heals in PvP. We like the Counterspell change because it rewards skilled play. We also made a change to the way Ring of Frost works with Presence of Mind. Rather than making the Ring of Frost instantly apply, the PoM only makes the cast time instant—the Ring still needs to arm for two seconds before freezing the unfortunates standing on it. Most significantly, we redesigned the Glyph of Fireblast to no longer allow it to detonate Frost Bomb on demand; instead it will require some timing on the part of the player. We’re boosting Frost’s PvE performance via Frostbolt, which requires a spell cast (which means the Mage must stand still and risks Frost lock), and also has a stacking debuff to really maximize damage.

Despite various adjustments along the way, Frost Mages are still too powerful in PvP and not quite competitive in PvE.
Our changes to Arcane in patch 5.1 overshot the mark and also needed some changes.
While we wanted to make some less attractive talents more attractive, we also weren’t satisfied with the Mage talent tree.

---------- Post added 2013-03-16 at 10:29 AM ----------

Please know that most or the things i say on this thread are directly from the wow wevsite

[Akraen]

Quite a big discussion on this topic already: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...2-Hotfix-Buffs