Blizzard
Hello Mages. In this week's build, we've made many changes to Arcane as well as a few updates to the other specs to address recent concerns about talents and GCD usage.
General Mage Changes- Imagem Espelhada damage greatly reduced, Seta de Gelo added to all Imagem Espelhada, and while your images are active, damage taken is reduced by 20%. Imagem Espelhada direct damage will cause one of your images to dissipate.
Developers' notes: The goal is to push Imagem Espelhada away from a DPS cooldown and give it a defensive component. Now, only taking direct damage will cause an image to dissipate and there is an ICD of 2 seconds to ensure at least a 6 second uptime when taking damage.
Runa de Poder has been reworked to cast at your location when you use one of either
Combustão,
Poder Arcano, or
Veias Gélidas, depending on your spec.
- Developers' notes: This change is aimed to help with the cast time and GCD utilization at the beginning of an encounter, while remaining viable in your opener as a high burst window.
ArcaneThe following Arcane changes are focused on reducing ramp up time, as well as opening up more talent options based on the content you're running.
- Poder Arcano cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
- Toque dos Magos now generates 4 Arcane Charges on cast.
- New Talent: Mestre do Tempo – Reduces the cooldown of Alter Time by 30 seconds. Alter Time resets the cooldown of Lampejo when you return to your original location.
- Alter Time has been moved to Level 24 for Arcane mages.
- Ressonância damage per target hit with Cutilada Arqueante increased to 15% (was 10%).
- Carregado removed.
Developers' notes: Toque dos Magos will now generate 4 charges baseline. This opens up the Level 35 tier for more viable options that focus heavily on dealing AoE damage.
New Level 35 Talent:
Eco Arcano – Direct damage you deal to enemies affected by
Toque dos Magos, causes an explosion that deals Arcane damage to 8 nearby enemies.
Anomalia Temporal now grants
Distorção Temporal for 6 seconds.
- Developers' notes: A simple change, but this should make Anomalia Temporal feel more satisfying as a talent since gaining Distorção Temporal is always a good thing, but gaining Arcane Charges isn't something you'd always necessarily want.
FireFire updates are centered around the change that saw
Chamas da Fênix baseline as the
Incendiar spread.
Fúria de Alexstrasza –
Sopro do Dragão now also gains a 50% increased critical strike damage bonus.
New talent:
Das Cinzas – Increases Mastery by 2% for each charge of Phoenix Flames off cooldown, and your direct-damage critical strikes reduce its cooldown by 1 second.