WoW The War Within Beta: New Mage Changes

• Many talents have been moved across all gates.
• New Talent: Consortium’s Bauble – Reduces Arcane Blast’s mana cost by 3% and increases its damage by 3%.
• New Talent: Resonant Orbs – Arcane Orb damage increased by 10%.
• New Talent: Dematerialize – Spells empowered by Nether Precision cause their target to suffer an additional 8% of the damage dealt over 6 seconds.
• New Talent: Energy Reconstitution – Damage from Dematerialize has a small chance to conjure an Arcane Explosion at 50% effectiveness at its target’s location. Arcane Explosions conjured this way do not generate Arcane Charges.
• New Talent: Big Brained – Gaining Clearcasting increases your Intellect by 1% for 8 seconds. Multiple instances may overlap.
• New Talent: Static Cloud – Each time you cast Arcane Explosion, its damage is increases by 25%. Bonus resets upon reaching 100% damage.
• New Talent: High Voltage – Damage from Arcane Missiles has a 20% chance to grant you 1 Arcane Charge. Chance is increased by 5% every time your Arcane Missiles fails to grant an Arcane Charge.
• Arcane Orb is now baseline.
• Arcane Blast damage increased by 10%.
• Baseline Clearcasting proc chance reduced to 8% (was 10%).

Developer’s note: It is currently too easy to acquire more Clearcasting stacks than you know what to do with. We’re going to continue to watch Clearcasting proc rates and adjust accordingly.

• Clearcasting now utilizes bad luck protection instead of true randomness.
• Improved Arcane Missiles damage bonus reduced to 5% (was 10%).
• Crackling Energy damage bonus reduced to 5% (was 10%).

• Pyromaniac proc chance reduced to 6% (was 8%).
• Improved Scorch damage bonus increased to 6% (was 5%).
• Pyromaniac Pyroblast and Flamestrike now echo at 50% effectiveness (was 100%).
• Molten Fury damage bonus decreased to 7% (was 8%).
• Phoenix Reborn damage bonus decreased to 100% (was 200%).
• Ashen Feather damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 100%).
• Ashen Feather Ignite bonus reduced to 50% (was 25%).

Developer’s note: We’re cleaning up the Living Bomb talents. Our goal with these changes is to increase the appeal of Gate 3 Living Bomb talents. We still expect Living Bomb to be fairly appealing in single target and low-cleave situations, since the damage decrease from the following changes in low-target contexts is marginal, and we will be watching it closely.

• Living Bomb implementation has been refactored and many bugs have been fixed.
• Living Bomb now applies Ignite.
• Living Bomb now spreads to 3 targets (was 5).
• The wording of many Lit Fuse proc chance increase talents has been changed.
• Lit Fuse proc chance increased to 15% (was 10%).
• Lit Fuse now applies 1 Living Bomb (was 3).
• Explosivo has been updated – Now increases Living Bomb’s damage by 50% while under the effects of Combustion. Chance of gaining 
• Lit Fuse is increased by 30% while under the effects of Combustion.
• Blast Zone has been updated – Lit Fuse now turns up to 3 targets into Living Bombs. Living Bombs can now spread to 5 enemies.
• Explosive Ingenuity now increases Living Bomb’s damage by 25% (was 50%).
• Sparking Cinders now separately increases Pyroblast and Flamestrike’s damage, now 10% and 20% respectively.
• Sparking Cinders now triggers 2 times per minute, scaling with Haste (was 3).

• Death’s Chill has been updated – While Icy Veins is active, damaging an enemy with Frostbolt increases spell damage by 2%. Stacks up to 10 times.

Developer’s note: We’re increasing the ramp of Death’s Chill and giving it a stack limit so that you can comfortably switch off of Frostbolt after reaching max stacks.

• Fractured Frost has been updated – While Icy Veins is active, your Frostbolts hit up to 2 additional targets and deal 15% increased damage.
• Ice Lance damage increased by 12%.