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http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/
Talent Review: Mages
New High Level Dungeon: Naxxramas




















Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:27 pm
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You can read about it more at
http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-mage-en&t=150585&p=1&tmp=1#post150585

Some things are really interesting:

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Well, right now we're in the process of working on the talent review for the mage. Some of the aspects we're looking to improve include easing a mage's downtime between fights a bit and making a Fire/Frost build a more viable combination than it is right now. (Currently most magi feel that having anywhere between 11 to 21 points in the Arcane is a "must").

To accomplish this, it's likely that we'll take a few of the "must have" abilities from Arcane, and make them available to all magi. (Some likely candidates are the talents Evocation and Improved Arcane Explosion.) From there, we'll also look at ways for players to be able to create interesting combos between the Fire and Frost trees. Hopefully, these changes will further polish the general play experience of magi while also opening some new, interesting talent builds.


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There are simple, dead-on changes which I am sure each and every mage will be pleased with. Another upcoming addition doesn't have to do with talents, but works off of an existing spell and sounds like a heaping bowl of fun.


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In 1.11 there will be some new spell mechanics which were heretofore unseen in the game. These mechanics deal mostly with threat managment and/or crit bonuses. There will also be talents that support mutiple spell schools, which will assist in the balance and playability between trees. Overall, the retooling of the talent trees looks to free up talent points and tighten the effects on talents to allow easier point expenditure throughout the three trees.


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Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:11 pm View user's profile Send private message
kuka



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Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on what the Dungeon and Raid team has been working on lately:

Karazhan

Karazhan is slated to be a max level, 10 person raid instance in the expansion. Its absolutely massive. Its also non-linear although it does become linear at certain points. There are at least a dozen bosses in there so far. Using the raid saving tech, well be able to make a small raid dungeon (only 10 people) where players can save their progress if they cannot do the whole thing in one night. Were trying to implement ways for them to quickly get back to where they were if theyve already made progress in the dungeon. For example, after you kill certain bosses, you can open a door thats a shortcut from the entrance.

Hellfire Citadel

This is the first dungeon players will encounter in the expansion. It lies in Hellfire Peninsula, the zone just beyond the Dark Portal. Were planning on making this a winged dungeon. Right now, two of the wings are scheduled to be lower level level up wings (for players leveling to 70). One of the wings is slated to be a maximum level 5-person dungeoin. And lastly, theres Magtheridons Lair, a raid wing similar to Onyxias Lair in size and scope what I like to call a quick raid. Of course, during the development cycle this could all change. Same goes for the Beta. But thats how were approaching this dungeon currently.

Naxxramas

Naxxramas will come out in Patch 1.11 and will be previewed at E3 in a couple of weeks. This raid dungeon is massive and hosts more bosses than you can wave a stick at. And a really big stick at that. Currently, Naxxramas is in internal testing. After a few more weeks of internal testing, well put it on the PTRs for an extended test period so that you guys have time to hammer the encounters and provide us with feedback. Well also be doing a lot of tuning during internal testing and during the PTR time. Expect the difficulty of encounters to fluctuate a lot on the PTRs. Expect a lot of info regarding Naxxramas to come out during E3.

Other Dungeon/Raid stuff

Were working on a bug fix thats preventing people NOT on the upgrade quest from seeing the Barons additional loot table in the vent that they kill him in under 45 minutes. Were hoping to get this out sooner than 1.11 but it might take a client patch to fix.

Also, Patch 1.11 has some great interface improvements coming. More info on that later.
Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:15 pm View user's profile Send private message
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Mages

# Due to significant talent changes, Mages will have all talent points refunded and can be respent. Training costs for all talent spell replacements have been significantly reduced.
# Arcane Explosion is now instant cast and will no longer remove the Presence of Mind effect when used.
# Evocation - Is now available to all mages (via trainer), starting at level 20.
# Conjure Food now has a new rank (Rank 7) available in Stratholme.
# Frost Ward now has a new rank (Rank 5) available as item loot in dungeons.
# Mana Shield - Damage taken will now be absorbed by other absorb spells (e.g. Ice Barrier, PW: Shield) before being absorbed by Mana Shield.
# Dampen Magic - Damage and healing reduction increased on ranks 3 through 5.
# Amplify Magic - Damage and healing bonus increased on ranks 2 through 4.


ARCANE TALENTS

Tier 1

Arcane Subtlety
Reduces your target's resistance to all your spells by 4/7/10, and all of your spell criticals cause 17/34/50% less threat.
Note: Functionality has been significantly altered.

Arcane Focus
Reduces the chance that the opponent can resist your Arcane spells by 2/4/6/8/10%.

Improved Arcane Missiles
Gives you a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling Arcane Missiles.

Tier 2 (No changes)

Wand Specialization
Increases your damage with Wands by 5/10/15/20/25%.

Arcane Concentration
Gives you a 2/4/6/8/10% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage.

Tier 3

Magic Attunement
Increases the effect of your Amplify Magic and Dampen Magic spells by 25/50%.
Note: This talent previously only affected Dampen Magic.

Improved Arcane Explosion
Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane Explosion spell by an additional 1/2/3/4/5%.
Note: AE is now an instant cast spell, so this talent has been altered to add +crit instead of casting time reduction.

Arcane Resilience
Increases your armor by an amount equal to 50% of your Intellect.
Note: Evocation, previously in this location and now a trainer spell, has been traded for one that also gives mages an armor boost.

Tier 4

Improved Mana Shield
Decreases the mana lost per point of damage taken when Mana Shield is active by 10/20%.

Improved Counterspell
Gives Counterspell a 50/100% chance to silence the target for 4 seconds.

Arcane Meditation
Allows 5/10/15% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Note: Previously five increments of 3%, freeing up two talent points to spend elsewhere.

Tier 5 (No changes)

Presence of Mind
When activated, your next Mage spell with a casting time less than 10 sec becomes an instant cast spell.

Arcane Mind
Increases your maximum Mana by 2/4/6/8/10%.

Tier 6

Arcane Instability
Increases your spell damage and critical strike chance by 1/2/3%.

Tier 7

Arcane Power
When activated, your spells deal 30% more damage while costing 30% more mana to cast. This effect lasts 15 seconds.
Note: Damage and mana cost have been reduced by 5%.


FIRE TALENTS

Tier 1 (No changes)

Improved Fireball
Reduces the casting time of your Fireball spell by 0.1/.2/.3/.4/.5 seconds.

Impact
Gives your Fire spells a 2/4/6/8/10% chance to stun the target for 2 seconds

Tier 2

Ignite
Your critical strikes from Fire damage spells cause the target to burn for an additional 8/16/24/32/40% of your spells damage over 4 seconds

Flame Throwing
Increases the range of your fire spells by 3/6 yards.

Improved Fire Blast
Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 0.5/1/1.5 seconds.
Note: Previously in five increments; two skill points freed up.

Tier 3

Incinerate
Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast and Scorch spells by 2/4%.

Improved Flamestrike
Increases the critical strike chance of your Flamestrike spell by 5/10/15%.

Pyroblast
Hurls an immense fiery boulder that causes 148 to 195 Fire damage and an additional 56 Fire damage over 12 seconds.

Burning Soul
Gives your fire spells a 35/70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
Note: Previously three increments -- 25/50/65%. One talent point freed up.

Tier 4

Improved Scorch
Your Scorch spells have a 33/66/100% chance to cause your target to be vulnerable to Fire damage. This vulnerability increase the Fire damage dealt to your target by 2% and lasts 15 seconds Stacks up to 5 times.
Note: Previously five increments of 20%. Two more talent points freed.

Improved Fire Ward
Causes your Fire Ward to have a 10/20% chance to reflect Fire spells while active.
Note: Was previously 20/35%.

Master of Elements
Your Fire and Frost spell criticals will refund 10/20/30% of their base mana cost.
Note: This is a new ability and, interestingly, affects more than one talent tree.

Tier 5 (No changes)

Critical Mass
Increases the critical strike chance of your fire spells by 2/4/6%.

Blast Wave
A wave of flame radiates outward from the caster, damaging all enemies caught within the blast for 160 to 192 Fire damage, and dazing them for 6 seconds.

Tier 6 (No changes)

Fire Power
Increases the damage done by your fire spells by 2/4/6/8/10%.

Tier 7

Combustion
When activated, this spell causes each Fire damage spell you cast to increase your critical strike chance with Fire damage spells by 10%. This effect lasts until you have caused 3 critical strikes with Fire spells.
Note: Significant functionality change. This used to grant a 100% chance to crit with your next fire spell. The cooldown is not listed.

FROST TALENTS

Tier 1

Improved Frost Nova
Reduces the cooldown of your Frost Nova spell by 2/4 seconds.

Improved Frostbolt
Reduces the casting time of your Frostbolt spell by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 seconds.

Permafrost
Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 1 second and reduces the target's speed by an additional 4%/7%/10%.
Note: Additional speed reduction is new.

Tier 2
Note: Improved Frost Nova has been removed.

Ice Shards
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 20/40/60/80/100%.

Frost Warding
Increases the armor and resistances given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 15/30%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 10% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.

Frostbite
Gives your Chill effects a 5/10/15% chance to freeze the target for 5 seconds.
Note: Previously a Rank 6 item. Was also previously five increments of 3%. Two more skill points freed up. Winter's Chill moved to Rank 6, with adjusted functionality.

Tier 3

Piercing Ice
Increases the damage done by your Frost spells by 2/4/6%.

Cold Snap
Instant, 10-minute cooldown
When activated, this spell finishes the cooldown on all of your Frost spells.

Improved Blizzard
Adds a chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 40/60/75%. Lasts 4.50 seconds.
Note: Movement speed reduced by an additional 5%. Effect duration tripled.


Tier 4
Note: Improved Frost Ward has been removed.

Arctic Reach
Increases the range of your Frostbolt and Blizzard spells and the radius of your Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells by 10%/20%.

Frost Channeling
Reduces the mana cost of your frost spells by 5/10/15%.

Shatter
Requires 3 points in Frostbite
Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 10/20/30/40/50%.
Note: Updated.

Tier 5 (No changes)

Ice Block
You become encased in a block of ice, protecting you from all physical attacks and spells for 10 sec, but during that time you cannot attack, move, or cast spells.

Improved Cone of Cold
Increases the damage dealt by your Cone of Cold spell by 15%/25%/35%.

Tier 6

Winter's Chill
Gived your Frost damage spells a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 1% for 15 seconds Stacks up to 5 times.
Note: Previously added three increments of 4% speed reduction to Chill effects. Was a Rank 2 item.

Tier 7 (No changes)

Ice Barrier
Instant cast, 30-second cool down
Instantly shields you, absorbing 454 damage. Lasts 1 minute. While the shield holds, spells will not be interrupted.
Fri May 05, 2006 10:53 am View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail
Tik
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New calculator is here:
http://www.wowhead.com/talent/
Fri May 05, 2006 3:08 pm View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail
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UI Improvements in patch 1.11

- New Target of a Target feature. (Most people have this as an option in their mods, however Blizzard finally thought it would be a good idea to add to the main UI).

- RS message included now as well. (Again, another feature which is already included in current mods such as CT_RaidAssist).

- A cool new feature that was pointed out is a new feature that acts similar to how Hunter's Mark is used now in raids. It is basically a UI feature that lets the leader display various icons over whatever Mob's head. There are about 10 of different icons, ranging from stars, diamonds and hearts, to skulls and shields.



full article (with pics) here http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/news-39-1-e3first-hand-information.html
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That instance looks nice Wink
Sat May 13, 2006 2:53 pm
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