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Upcoming Mage changes
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — ... Arcane Blast – overhauled. Will now increase the damage of your next Arcane spell by 30%. However using Arcane Blast itself does not consume the charge, but instead increases the mana of your next Arcane Blast, up to a maximum of 3 stacks. You can alternate Blast and Barrage to keep buffing Barrage, or you can build Blast up higher for a heavy mana cost. ...

Gearing For Heroics (Mage) Chapter 3 - Rotations
World of Warcraft Pro - Brings Game Experience to You! — ... I'm so sorry I had to postpone these. I did not have enough time to write the 3rd chapter, therefore delaying the next. I'll delete this edit when I post them. Context Enchant Gem Glyph Talent 3. Rotations Now we are onto rotations. What exactly are rotations? Well, the term rotation means using certain abilities in a certain way to get the most maximum damage output you can. I will be doing rotations for all three specs. Please note - this will be a somewhat short guide. Arcane Arcane Blast x 3 -> ...

PTR Patch 3.0.8 - Mage Raid Specs
Spicytuna — ... The new change to Arcane Blast is one of the biggest changes, and will give Arcane Mages a nice boost in DPS making them viable for raiding again. The new Arcane Blast mechanic gives the Arcane Mage a sort of “combo” system, much like how Rogues DPS. This gives you a lot of flexibility as an Arcane Mage, allowing you to make adjustments in your rotation depending on your Mana pool. ...

The Arcane thread
Elitist Jerks — ...   Ice Lance 1.5/3.5/3 223-258   7% 228 (228.76)   Arcane Blast 2.5/3.5 1185-1377   8% 261 (261.44) ...

Undocumented Arcane Mage changes in patch 3.0.8a
WoW.com — ... From the first moments that the servers came up today there were unconfirmed reports of an undocumented Arcane nerf to Mages flying around. Not so long ago, those reports were confirmed via some commentary on the issue from Ghostcrawler. There were some changes made to how Arcane Barrage, Arcane Missiles, and the Arcane Blast buff interact to prevent a fun little trick that was being used to get the most out of the buff. Second, the Arcane Blast glyph received a flat nerf, losing 2% damage per stack. Unfortunately, along with those changes ...

PTR, Ulduar, Arcane Mage and good old Times
Shields Up! — ... Last week I picked her up, respecced from frost to fire and found fire even more annoying and then, for the first time ever, gave arcane a shot. Since then I’m having a blast. When I started leveling I was around 64, this weekend I reached 70. I guess arcane is much less of a fun leveling spec if you can’t get to the end talents, but as soon as you can get Slow or even Arcane Barrage, things become really interesting. A leveling arcane mage jumps between Arcane Blast and Arcane Barrage. AB puts a stacking debuff on your toon, making the next ...

Exorcism can no longer be used on players
WoW.com — Filed under: Paladin, Patches, PvP As an unannounced change in this morning's patch 3.1.1, Exorcism can no longer be used against players. The stated rationale for this change not being announced ahead of time was that they were "trying to get the tooltip changed at the same time to reduce confusion," which doesn't quite seem to hold water for me - wouldn't it be less confusing to tell the players, and not leave them to find out for themselves the next time they tried to PvP? Anyway, that's a relatively minor issue. Recall that in patch 3.1, Exorcism ...

PTR Patch 3.2 - Living Bomb on Multiple Targets
Spicytuna — ... The change to Arcane Blast will be a buff to mana starved Arcane Mages, allowing them to cast more, and do more damage. Anytime mana cost on spells are reduced with no drawbacks, it is a good thing. ...

Arcane Brilliance: Mage changes on the patch 3.2.2 PTR
WoW.com — ... Arcane Blast: The buff from using this ability now stacks up to 4 times instead of 3, and each application increases mana cost by 130% instead of 200%. ...

WoW: ARCANE LOVE IS UPON US!! 3.2.2 is out!
A High Latency Life — ... Arcane Blast: The buff from using this ability now stacks up to 4 times instead of 3, and each application increases mana cost by 130% instead of 200%. ...

WoW patch 3.2.2 changes for Mages
WoW.com — ... Arcane Blast: The buff from using this ability now stacks up to 4 times instead of 3, and each application increases mana cost by 175% instead of 200%. In addition, the duration of the buff has been reduced to 6 seconds. ...

A Basic Guide to the Raiding Arcane Mage
TankSpot — ... choice for your meta gem, which is the [Chaotic Skyflare Diamond]. Rotation and Abilities Before I delve into rotations, I wanted to touch base on common abbreviations and acronyms you will come across in most Arcane rotation discussions. I won't refer to any abilities in this guide as such, but it something worth knowing, or else trying to read any Arcane discussion on Elitist Jerks will be as good as Greek. AB ---------- [Arcane Blast] Abar/Arcbar - [Arcane Barrage] Mbam ...