So what are the new changes for Mages? They haven’t seem to find any changes, but I found two big changes already to the Frost Tree. It will change the way I will spec for when the pre-release patch is out, and when I hit level 80.

Ice Shards:

Ice Shards is now only 3 talent points instead of 5 to, “Increase the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 33/66/100%.” This change frees up 2 talent points for Frost Mages to use elsewhere.

Shatter:

Shatter is now also only 3 talent points instead of 5 to, “Increase the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 17/34/50%.” This change also frees up another 2 talent points for Frost Mages.

Now that I have 4 extra talent points, where shall I put them? This now opens up a lot of different options for me. The Frost talent tree has many many useful talents that I want to pick up, but never could find enough talent points to grab them all.

For me, I will use those extra points and invest them into Brain Freeze. Before I didn’t think it was worth the points over some of the other Frost talents. Well now I can afford the points. When the pre-release patch comes out, I shall be using this talent build: Level 70 PvE/PvP Frost

When the WotLK expansion hits, as I level up, I will start filling in the Arcane tree until I get Focus Magic. When I hit 80 and start raiding again, the talent build that I will most likely be using is this: 80 PvE/PvP Frost