Throwing The Cat Amongst The Pigeons

I was going to make this a post about 10 man content, but news that Blizzard are shipping all the Wrath of the Lich King talent changes with their next patch came out of left field and caught me a little cold.  Since it’s the biggest news in town at the moment, it’d be remiss [...]

Less QQ more Pew Pew!

Regular readers of any kind of mage blog or forum will doubtless have heard the litany of complaints about how everything we can do, some other class can do better.  Here are a few of the old examples: Mages do ranged dps, just not as well or for as long as Warlocks or Hunters. Mages [...]

Spell Downranking and Mana Cost Inflation

It seems there’s another beta build on the test servers and there’s a fairly massive change been slipped in. WoW Insider just reported that downranked spells now cost much more mana than maximum rank, sometimes more than 100 mana more than the highest rank.  How is this going to affect you?  Over to our panel [...]

Spell Pushback Protection on Beta?

WoW Insider just reported something that’s good news for casters everywhere, but incredibly good news for Frost Mages. Full details at the link, but a brief summary here. Spell pushback mechanics have been changed on the beta servers. When you’re casting and take damage, the first two hits add 0.5 seconds to your cast time, [...]

All Your Living Bombs Are Belong To Us.

There seems to have been another patch sneaked onto the Beta servers without my noticing it, Blizzards are getting sneaky. So what’s changed? Oh nothing much. Living Bomb’s had a small tweak for one thing. Here follows a quick image of a Mage casting Living Bomb on someone: Oh yes, you heard that right. Casting [...]