Mage raid utility is DAMAGE. Put simply...
Looks like they're removing utility from other classes. Skull Banner and Stormlash both gone, and Tricks won't provide damage. TW/BL will be the only raid throughput cds. We'll see what the new talents yield, but not expecting much in the way of utility now. Still think they should combine Healthstones into a hp+mana hybrid item.
Not really an acceptable argument. Yeah if a class pulls 50k-100k more than other, I will take somebody for damage purposes. However even if an ele shammy pulls 10k-20k less, ancestral guidance more than makes up for that, or healing tide etc. Not every raid is in a position where they have enough CDs to just base who they take on straight damage.
Go get http://www.wowhead.com/item=95566/ra...ificial-dagger
Does about the same thing as alter time, but without the 6 second delay.