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Boot Camp Basics: Aggro and You, the Healer
airee.net — ... are also an important and effective way of managing threat; many classes posses talents that allow them to mitigate or increase the amount of threat they generate: Druids: Feral Instinct, Improved Tranquility, Subtlety Mages: Arcane Subtlety, Burning Soul, Frost Channeling Paladins: Improved Righteous Fury, Fanaticism Priests: Shadow Affinity, Silent Resolve Shamans: Elemental Precision, Healing Grace, Spirit Weapons Warlocks: ...

Ghost Hit Gone for Wrath
Spicytuna — Yep, the advantage that Frost Mages had over Fire Mages in the Spell Hit column will be gone with the release of Wrath of the Lich King or possibly the next patch coming this Tuesday. The Ghost Hit was the extra Spell Hit Frost Mages recieved, which gave them an extra 3% Spell Hit from Elemental Precision. Soon, it will be gone. I haven’t gotten the chance myself to test out the Ghost Hit with a level 80 Mage and a boss level target dummy, but there was someone who did. Credit goes to Tashire of (US) Baelgun for testing it out ...

Upcoming Mage changes
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — ... 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. Torment the Weak – now works with Arcane Blast and does bonus damage to targets afflicted by any kind of slowing effect (e.g. Thunder Clap). Elemental Precision – renamed Precision and now works on all ...

Spell Hit for Raiding Mages
Spicytuna — ... which increases the chances of your Arcane spells to hit by 1/2/3%. In the Frost Tree, you have Elemental Precision which increases the chances of your Frost and Fire spells to hit by 1/2/3%. ...

PTR Patch 3.0.8 - Mage Raid Specs
Spicytuna — ... With the change to Elemental Precision (to be renamed to just “Precision”), it will now also affect Arcane Spells. This combined with ...