So let me get this straight.
Warlocks get:
- Green fire class quest
- Tons of new spell effect updates that totally outclass mage spell effects. (Seriously, some of their abilities look incredible)
- Various new talents including Demonbolt spell which also has amazing visual effects.
- Lots of attention because they lost metamorphosis and now has amazing spec identity in demonology as well as various new spells.
- Visually the class looks extremely appealing.
Mages get:
- Arcane still has ugly vanilla animations, looks lackluster and it's three level 100 talent abilities consist of: 2 Buffs and an Arcane Orb. Because everybody loves orbs right? No.
- Arcane Barrage looks decent, Arcane Blast doesn't even have an animation and Arcane Missles uses the same animations from Vanilla.
- Fire mage gets interesting new spell effects, no concerns there. Although I can't help but feel that fireball needs to look more intimidating rather than a ball texture I could probably whip up on Unity.
- Frost mage also lacks any visually interesting spell effects, Frostbolt is as uninteresting as usual, Blizzard still hasn't been updated yet Druid AoE abilities get updated. Frozen Orb, need I say more about orbs? And...nobody likes the ice barrier spell effect and Frost Ray looks terrible.
I love the mage class, but when it feels this neglected in terms of visual effects, it's hard not to be in awe of the attention they are giving to Warlocks. I don't even need to mention what melee classes are getting in terms of visual updates here. That much should be obvious.
Suggestion, give us a minor glyph for Arcane Lightning aka Purple Lightning to replace arcane abilities. It's been suggested on the forums and sounds refreshing.