6.2 changes to mages,

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Has anyone got any opionions on the upcoming changes to mage?

 

Mage

General

• [Amplify Magic] has been removed.
• [Frostfire Bolt] now deals 30% more damage.

Arcane

• Mastery: [Mana Adept] has reduced in effectiveness by 6%.
• [Arcane Missiles] now deals 10% more damage.

Frost

• Mastery: [Icicles] is now 13% more effective.
• [Brain Freeze] now has a 15% increased chance to trigger on each multistrike (down from 25%).
• [Frostbolt] now deals 30% more damage.

 

 

Seems fire hasnt been touched , but with frostfire bolt now doing more damage is there a place for it in the fire rotation?

 

is arcane going to rise as the only single target spec viable or is the changes to frost going to make it a competitor?

 

What is peoples thoughts?

 

 

Edited April 24, 2015 by xroguexkevinx

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After taking into account the nerf along with the buffs, frost overall single target damage at ilevel 700 will be buffed about 3.7%. Arcane will receive about a 4% nerf to overall single target damage at ilevel 700. This brings the gap between frost and arcane much closer, but arcane still will do about 2.5% better on single target than frost, so I forsee no changes to the current arcane for single, and fire for aoe.

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Seems fire hasnt been touched , but with frostfire bolt now doing more damage is there a place for it in the fire rotation?

 

Frostfire Bolt is replaced by [Arcane Blast] for Arcane mages and by [Fireball] (at level 12) for Fire mages.