WoW The War Within Beta: Mage Talent Changes

• Many talents have moved locations or have had their pathing updated.
• New Talent: Barrier Diffusion – Whenever one of your Barriers is removed, reduce its cooldown by 4 seconds. Located in Dragon’s Breath previous location.
• New Talent: Inspired Intellect – Arcane Intellect grants you an additional 3% Intellect. Choice node with Time Anomaly.
• Time Anomaly has been updated – Now grants Brain Freeze instead of Fingers of Frost for Frost Mages.
• Supernova added to Mage class tree and now has a 45 second cooldown (was 25 seconds).
• Mass Slow has been removed.
• Mass Polymorph now polymorphs targets for 15 seconds (was 60 seconds).

• New Talent: Energized Familiar – During Arcane Surge, your Arcane Familiar fires 4 bolts instead of 1. Damage from your Arcane Familiar has a small chance to grant you up to 2% of your maximum mana.
• New Talent: Eureka – When a spell consumes Clearcasting, its damage is increased by 25%.
• New Talent: Wizened Wit – The cast time of Arcane Blast is reduced by 5%.
• New Talent: Time Loop – When you apply a stack of Arcane Debilitation, you have a 10% chance to apply another stack of Arcane Debilitation. This effect can trigger off of itself.
• New Talent: Arcane Debilitation – Damaging a target with Arcane Missiles increases the damage they take from Arcane Missiles, Arcane Barrage, and Arcane Blast by 1.0%.
• New Talent: Aether Attunement – Consuming Clearcasting has a 15% chance to grant you Aether Attunement, causing your next Arcane Missiles to deal 150% increased damage to your primary target and fires at up to 4 nearby enemies dealing 100% increased damage.
• New Talent: Leysight – Nether Precision damage bonus increased to 30%.
• New Talent: Leydrinker – Consuming Nether Precision has a 10% chance to make your next Arcane Blast or Arcane Barrage echo, repeating its damage at 25% effectiveness to the primary target and up to four nearby enemies.
• New Talent: Improved Touch of the Magi – Your Touch of the Magi now accumulates 25% of the damage you deal.
• New Talent: Magi’s Spark – Your Touch of the Magi now also conjures a spark, increasing the damage your target receives from your next Arcane Barrage, Arcane Blast, and Arcane Missiles by 25%. Upon receiving damage from all three spells, the spark explodes, dealing Arcane damage to all nearby enemies.
• New Talent: Nether Munitions – When Magi’s Spark or Improved Touch of the Magi detonates, it increases the damage all affected targets take from you by 6% for 12 seconds.
• New Talent: Surging Urge – Arcane Surge damage increased by 5% per Arcane Charge.
• Arcane Missiles has been redesigned – Can now only be cast when you have Clearcasting The wording of talents that are associated with Arcane Missiles have been updated to reflect this change.
• Nether Precision has been redesigned – Consuming Clearcasting increases the damage of your next 2 Arcane Blasts by 20% or your next 2 Arcane Barrages by 20%.
• Arcane Familiar has been redesigned – Casting Arcane Intellect also summons you a Familiar that attacks your enemies and increases your maximum mana by 10% for 1 hour. Now passive.
• Illuminated Thoughts has been redesigned – Clearcasting has a 5% increased chance to trigger and spells that consume Clearcasting deal 5% more damage.
• Concentration has been redesigned – Casting Arcane Blast has a small chance to make your next cast of Arcane Blast free.
• Spark of the Magi has been redesigned – Now makes your next Arcane Blast, Arcane Barrage, and Arcane Missiles echo for 25% extra damage (was increase the damage dealt by these spells).

• Improved Prismatic Barrier is now baseline.
• Cracking Energy and Improved Arcane Missiles are now a 1-point talent.
• Clearcasting’s chance to trigger is no longer tied to mana spent, and now has a 10% chance of triggering when casting any damaging spell.
• You can no longer trigger Clearcasting by casting damaging spells while out of combat.
• Evocation now grants one stack of Clearcasting.
• Mastery: Savant now properly increases the damage dealt by Arcane Surge.
• Siphon Storm duration has been reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Arcane Surge is now guaranteed to generate Clearcasting.

• Arcane Blast now has a 5% increased chance to generate Clearcasting.

• The following talents have been removed:

  • Foresight
  • Nether Tempest
  • Reverberate
  • Mana Gem
  • Radiant Spark
  • Harmonic Echo
  • Cascading Power
  • Supernova
  • Rule of Threes

• New Talent: Lit Fuse – Consuming Hot Streak has a 10% chance to grant Lit Fuse. Lit Fuse makes your next Fire Blast apply Living Bomb to up to three targets. Living Bomb explodes after 2 seconds, dealing damage to the target and up to 5 nearby enemies. Up to 5 enemies hit by this explosion gain Living Bomb, but this effect cannot spread further.
• New Talent: Explosive Ingenuity – Your chance of gaining Lit Fuse when consuming Hot Streak is increased to 20%. Living Bomb damage increased by 50%.
• New Talent: Down in Flames – Scorch deals 300% damage to targets below 30% health.
• New Talent: Quickflame – Flamestrike damage increased by 20%.
• New Talent: Focused Fury – Living Bomb deals more damage the fewer targets it hits, up to 300% at 1 target.
• New Talent: Mark of the Fire Lord – Flamestrike and Living Bomb apply Mastery: Ignite at 100% increased effectiveness.
• New Talent: Spontaneous Combustion – Casting Combustion refreshes up to 3 charges of Fire Blast and up to 3 charges of Phoenix Flames.
• New Talent: Fire’s Ire – When you’re not under the effect of Combustion, your critical strike chance is increased by 2.5%. When you’re under the effects of Combustion, your critical strike damage is increased by 2.5%. 2-point talent.
• New Talent: Explosivo – Casting Combustion grants Lit Fuse. Your chance of gaining Lit Fuse is increased to 40% while under the effects of Combustion.
• New Talent: Blast Zone – Lit Fuse can now apply Living Bomb to up to five targets. Living Bombs can now spread to eight enemies.
• New Talent: Ashen Feather – If Phoenix Flames hits only one target, it deals 50% increased damage and applies Ignite at 100% effectiveness.
• New Talent: Majesty of the Phoenix – When Phoenix Flames damages 3 or more targets, your next 2 Flamestrikes have their cast time reduced by 1.5 seconds and their damage is increased by 20%.
• New Talent: Molten Fury – Damage dealt to targets below 35% health is increased by 8%.
• New Talent: Heat Shimmer – Damage from Ignite has a 5% chance to make your next Scorch instant cast and deal damage as though your target was below 30% health.
• New Talent: Sparking Cinders – Living Bomb explosions have a 15% chance to increase the damage of your next Flamestrike or Pyroblast.
• Fervent Flickering has been redesigned – Now reduces the cooldown of Fire Blast by 2 seconds.
• Controlled Destruction has been redesigned – Damaging a target with Pyroblast increases the damage it receives from Ignite by 0.5%. This effect stacks up to 50 times.
• Improved Scorch has been redesigned – Casting Scorch on targets below 30% health increases the damage the target takes from you by 5% for 12 seconds. This effect stacks up to 2 times.
• Flame Accelerant has been redesigned – Every 12 seconds, your next Fireball, Flamestrike, or Pyroblast has a 40% reduced cast time.
• Unleashed Inferno has been redesigned – While Combustion is active your Fireball, Pyroblast, Fire Blast, Scorch, and Phoenix Flames deal 50% increased damage and reduce the cooldown of Combustion by 1.25 seconds. While Combustion is active, Flamestrike deals 25% increased damage and reduces the cooldown of Combustion by 0.25 seconds for each critical strike, up to 1.25 seconds.
• Convection has been redesigned – When a Living Bomb expires, if it did not spread to another target, it refreshes its duration. A Living Bomb can only benefit from this effect once.
• Pyromaniac has been redesigned – Casting Pyroblast or Flamestrike while Hot Streak is active has an 8% chance to repeat the spell cast at 100% effectiveness, but the copied spell cannot contribute to Hot Streak. This effect counts as consuming Hot Streak.
• Phoenix Reborn has been redesigned – When your direct damage spells hit an enemy 25 times the damage of your next 2 Phoenix Flames is increased by 200% and they refund a charge on use.
• From the Ashes has been redesigned – Phoenix Flames damage increased by 15% and your direct-damage spells reduce the cooldown of Phoenix Flames by 1 second.
• Deep Impact has been redesigned – Meteor now turns one target hit into a Living Bomb. Additionally, its cooldown is reduced by 15 seconds.
• Fuel the Fire is now baseline.
• Searing Touch’s critical strike threshold functionality is now baseline to Scorch.
• Improved Scorch’s movement speed increase is now baseline to Scorch.
• Sun King’s Blessing now grants Sun King’s Fury after consuming 10 Hot Streaks.
• Flame On no longer reduces the cooldown of Fire Blast.
• Living Bomb applications are slightly desynced to minimize overlapping.
• Living Bomb damage increased by 100%. Damage not increased in PvP combat.
• Kindling now benefits from Flamestrike – Flamestrike critical strikes reduce the remaining cooldown of Combustion by 0.2 seconds for each critical strike, up to 1 second.
• Unleashed Inferno’s non-Flamestrike damage bonus increased to 60%. Flamestrike damage bonus increased to 35%.
• Fevered Incantation now grants 1% increased critical strike damage per point (was 2%).
• Call of the Sun King no longer grants 15% increased Phoenix Flames damage and instead makes Phoenix Flames always critically strike.
• Alexstrasza’s Fury no longer makes Phoenix Flames always critically strike.
• Hyperthermia now has an activation overlay.
• The following talents are now 1 point:

  • Critical Mass
  • Wildfire
  • Flame On
• Fevered Incantation is now 2 points.
• The following talents have been removed:

  • Incendiary Eruptions
  • Firemind
  • Tempered Flames
  • Conflagration
  • Searing Touch
  • Surging Blaze
  • Focused Fury

• Burning Blood damage bonus reduced to 8% and health threshold increased to 35%.
• Burning Blood has been renamed to Molten Fury.
• Heat Shimmer’s proc now makes your next Scorch instant cast (was deal 25% increased damage)

Developer’s note: We’re being sensitive to giving Fire more instant-cast spells and will be watching this talent carefully to make sure it isn’t pushing Fire too far towards never having to cast.

• New Talent: Death’s Chill – While Icy Veins is active, damaging an enemy with Frostbolt increases spell damage by 1%.
• Fractured Frost has been redesigned – While Icy Veins is active, your Frostbolts hit up to 2 additional targets. Now a 1-point talent.
• Ice Barrier’s absorb increased to 24% of maximum health (was 22%).
• Hailstones is now a 1-point talent.