5.3 Patch Notes Sneek Peak

[LocNess]

Mage -

Invocation - Channel time returned back to 6 seconds base.

Rune of Power - Only one Rune may be placed at any given time. Duration reduced to 30 seconds, cooldown of 1 minute.

Incanter's Ward - Now decreases damage by 6% passively due to the 30% being seen as too much burst.

Glyph of Evocation - We believe Mages should not be able to heal, this glyph has been removed.

Ice Barrier - We discovered this winter that ice is actually relatively fragile, the shield has been reduced by 70%.

Flameglow - We feel the name does not suit the effect, now creates a fiery aura around your Mage instead of its current effect.

Frostjaw - Due to complaints of victims of tetanus and lockjaw, we removed this talent. Now replaced with Dampen Magic.

Dampen Magic - Dampens magic used against the targeted enemy, decreasing damage taken from spells by up to X and healing spells by up to Y. Lasts 10 min.

Presence of Mind - Removed due to the amount of burst it provided. Now replaced with Presents of Mind.

Presents of Mind - Wrapped gifts appear around your Mage. You may open them for Arcane Dust and Teleportation or Portal runes. 1 week CD. Speaking of which....

All spells that used to require reagents have been reinstated with the reagent cost.

Arcane -

Due to the lack of use of Arcane Barrage, that we desperately want to be a part of your rotation, its damage has been increased by 1000%. However, Arcane blast has been removed. Arcane Barrage is given a 10% chance to proc Arcane Missiles.

Arcane Power - Everybody in your party or raid also has their abilities cost increased by 20% for the duration of the spell. We feel the burst needs to be only used for dire situations.

Mirror Images - Now has a chance to turn against you due to their repeated deaths by aggro transition. 5% occurrence.

Fire -

Blizzard has taken the stance that fire is dangerous and should not be played with in any sort of manner, therefore all fire spells now have a 10% chance of backfiring onto yourself to simulate the realistic dangers of fire.

We have also gotten repeated warnings from the WWF that we are sending dangerous messages by hurting animals with fire, so now all Beast type mobs are immune to fire damage.

Living Bomb also hurts all allies within 12 yards of the explosion, and can also spread to them.

Pyroblast! - Has a 3% chance to target a random healer. Chance is increased based on duration of fight on an exponential scale.

Combustion - Has been removed, replaced with Spontaneous Combustion.

Spontaneous Combustion - Sacrifice yourself in a burst of flames. No durability damage is taken.

In order to further prevent you from using this spec, we have now added a new talent, "Feels".

Feels - Every Hot Streak proc you get also displays a picture of a random dead baby animal that flashes across your screen.

Frost -

Due to the coldness of Northrend, we assume all inhabitants are very resistant to Frost, thus all NPCs and Players are immune to Frost damage while in Northrend.

Ice Lance - Some players felt the name wasn't clear enough, animation changed to more resemble a lance such as one in jousting.

Deep Freeze - We have spent too much time hearing crap for how OP this is. Removed the spell.

Frostbolt - We felt that we overbuffed this in 5.2, damage decreased by 40%.

Ice Armor - Ice, again, is fragile. Renamed to Iron Armor, and now also slows you down by 30%.

Other changes are still in the works, however these are the base changes and what you should expect come release. Thank you for all your Feedback.

-Blizzard

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[Raugnaut]

You misspelled Sneak. Its Sneak, not Sneek.

---------- Post added 2013-02-22 at 09:06 PM ----------

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He's simply trolling.

[Swizzle]

Please don't do this, it's not nice to do things like this and I don't appreciate it cluttering our board.