An Overview of Mage Class Changes in the War Within Patch 11.1

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• Mass Barrier mana cost reduced to 8% base mana (was 12%).
• Polymorph health regeneration reduced by 50%.
• Polymorph now breaks based on a small damage threshold instead of any damage.
• Time Anomaly procs now ignore mana costs.
• Mirror Image now have their Frostbolt missiles hidden for allies in raids and dungeons.
• Hero Talents — Frostfire:
  • Excess Fire now triggers when you cast Meteor or Comet Storm (was upon reaching max stacks of Fire Mastery).
  • Excess Fire may now stack up to 2 times.
  • Frostfire Burst damage increased by 70%.
  • Excess Frost now triggers when you consume Excess Fire (was upon reaching max stacks of Frost Mastery) and may stack up to twice.
  • Excess Frost now casts Ice Nova at 200% effectiveness (was 125%).
  • The cooldown reduction of Excess Frost has been reduced to 3 seconds (was 5 seconds).
  • The talent locations of Excess Frost, Excess Fire, Isothermic Core, Imbued Warding, and Meltdown have changed.
  • Frostfire Bolt will now appropriately consume Overflowing Energy when it critically strikes.
  • Frostfire Empowerment is now tracked on the personal resource display.
• Hero Talents — Sunfury:
  • Consuming Glorious Incandescence while at or around max range will now appropriately summon Meteorites.

• New Talent: Aether Fragment — Intuition’s damage bonus increased by 20%.
• New Talent: Intuition — Casting a damaging spell has a 5% chance to make your next Arcane Barrage deal 50% increased damage and generate 4 Arcane Charges.
• New Talent: Arcane Rebound — When Arcane Barrage hits more than 2 targets, it explodes, dealing light Arcane damage to all enemies within 10 yards of the primary target.
• Resonance has been updated — Now increases Arcane Barrage damage by 15% per target hit beyond the first.
• Leydrinker has been updated:
  • Now triggers from consuming Clearcasting (was consuming Nether Precision).
  • Chance to trigger increased to 40% (was 25%).
  • Echo damage increased to 70% (was 60%).
  • Visuals updated.
• Enlightened has been updated — Arcane damage dealt increases based on your current mana, up to 6% at full mana. Mana regeneration is increased based on your current mana, up to 20% when out of mana.
• Nerub-ar Palace 4-set bonus updated — Now increases Arcane Missiles and Arcane Orb damage by 15%.
• Arcane Barrage damage increased by 45%.
• Arcane Explosion damage increased by 35%.
• High Voltage bad luck protection chance increased to 15% (was 10%).
• Arcane Surge is now tracked on the personal resource display.
• Arcane Echo’s impact visual is now caster only.
• Concentration has been removed.
• Hero Talents — Sunfury:
  • Burden of Power has been updated — Now benefits Arcane Barrage.
  • Burden of Power is now tracked on the personal resource display.
  • Arcane Soul has been updated — Each cast of Arcane Barrage during Arcane Soul increases Arcane Barrage’s damage by 15%.
  • Fixed an issue causing the Arcane Phoenix to occasionally cast the player’s version of Meteorite.

• Heat Shimmer has been updated — No longer makes Scorch instant-cast. Now increases Scorch damage by 10%.
• Pyrotechnics critical chance increased to 20% (was 10%).
• Controlled Destruction now also triggers from Fireball.
• Master of Flame now increases Fireball and Ignite damage by 15% when Combustion is not active.
• Call of the Sun King now grants 15% increased Phoenix Flames damage (no longer grants an additional charge).
• Fire Blast cooldown increased to 14 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• Hyperthermia duration reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds). Chance to trigger reduced.
• Pyroblast damage increased by 10%. Mana cost reduced to 1.5% base mana (was 2.5%).
• Flamestrike damage increased by 10%. Mana cost reduced to 1.5% base mana (was 2.5%).
• Unleashed Inferno damage bonus increased to 70% (was 60%).
• Phoenix Reborn now refunds 1 Phoenix Flame charge on use (was 2). Phoenix Flames damage bonus increased to 200% (was 100%).
• Fixed an issue that caused Pyromaniac to grant Hyperthermia more often than intended.
• Hyperthermia can no longer trigger if already active; its chance to trigger has been reduced.
• Hero Talents — Frostfire:
  • Frostfire Infusion damage reduced by 10%.
  • Excess Fire’s Phoenix Flames cooldown reduction reduced to 5 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Excess Frost cooldown reduction reduced to 5 seconds (was 10 seconds). Ice Nova effectiveness decreased to 150% (was 200%).
  • Excess Frost now reduces the cooldown of Meteor by 5 seconds when consumed (was 3 seconds).
  • Isothermic Core now causes Comet Storm to hit at 250% effectiveness (was 200%).
  • Flash Freezeburn can no longer trigger from Combustion granted by Sun King's Blessing or Time Anomaly.
• Hero Talents — Sunfury:
  • Glorious Incandescence Fire Blast cooldown reduction increased to 2 seconds when a meteorite strikes (was 1 second).
  • Memory of Al'ar will now extend an existing Hyperthermia instead of replacing it.
  • Fixed an issue causing Ignite the Future not to increase Mana Cascade stacks.
  • Fixed an issue causing the Arcane Phoenix to occasionally cast the player’s version of Meteorite.

• Freezing Winds has been redesigned — Now causes Frozen Orb to deal 15% more damage to units affected by your Blizzard.
• Wintertide has been updated — Now grants 2/4% increased Icicle and Glacial Spike damage, stacking up to 2 times. Glacial Spike no longer consumes Wintertide.
• Ice Lance damage increased by 20%.
• Blizzard damage increased by 8%.
• Blizzard increased to a 12-yard radius (was 8 yards).
• Blizzard duration increased to 12 seconds (was 8 seconds).
• Fingers of Frost’s Frozen Orb chance to trigger reduced to 5% (was 10%).
• Ice Lance empowered by Fingers of Frost no longer consumes Winter's Chill.
• Glacial Assault’s description has been updated to better communicate its effects.
• Permafrost Lance’s talent icon has been updated to match its aura icon.
• Fixed an issue with Wintertide’s aura being removed inconsistently.
• Water Jet is now hidden for allies in raids and dungeons.
• Hero Talents — Frostfire:
  • Frostfire Infusion damage reduced by 10%.
  • Excess Frost cooldown reduction reduced to 5 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Excess Frost’s Ice Nova effectiveness decreased to 150% (was 200%).
  • Flash Freezeburn can no longer trigger from Icy Veins granted by Time Anomaly.
• Hero Talents — Spellslinger:
  • Consuming Fingers of Frost or Winter's Chill now generates a Splinter (was Winter’s Chill).
  • Splintering Orbs now generates 4 Splinters for Frost Mages (was 6).
  • All Splinter damage increased by 8%.
  • Spellfrost Teachings’ Frozen Orb damage bonus reduced to 15% (was 30%).
  • Spellfrost Teachings’ chance to trigger reduced to 2% (was 2.5%).

• New PvP Talent: Overpowered Barrier — All barriers absorb 100% more damage and have an additional effect but last 5 seconds.
  • Ice Barrier — If the barrier is fully absorbed, enemies within 10 yards suffer massive Frost damage and are slowed by 70% for 4 seconds.
  • Blazing Barrier — Reflects 100% of damage absorbed.
  • Prismatic Barrier — If the barrier is fully absorbed, gain Time Warp for 4 seconds.
• Ring of Fire (PvP Talent) has been redesigned — Now disorients enemies who enter for 3 seconds and burns for 3% of their maximum health over its duration (was 18%). Cooldown increased to 45 seconds (was 30 seconds). Overrides Ring of Frost.
• Ring of Fire now has a more pronounced visual effect.
• Alter Time is now affected by healing reduction effects, such as dampening.
• Arcane Familiar damage increased by 250% in PvP combat.
• Temporal Shield (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• New PvP Talent: Ignition Burst — Heat Shimmer now additionally causes your next Scorch to become instant cast and cast at 100% effectiveness.
• Fireheart (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Arcane Phoenix non-exceptional spell damage increased by 100% in PvP combat.
• Arcane Phoenix exceptional spell damage increased by 50% in PvP combat.
• Arcane Phoenix will now only use single-target spells in PvP combat.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Arcane Phoenix to occasionally cast the player’s version of Meteorite.

You can find other Patch 11.1 class changes linked below.