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PTR Patch 3.3 – Fingers of Frost Change
“Does the change to the way Finger of Frost is consumed in the next Patch 3.3, does that mean no more ghost charges and shatter combos for us Frost Mages?” The quick answer to that is: Nope, you will still have your “ghost charges” and “shatter combos”. Don’t worry. The way Blizzard worded the change [...]
PTR Patch 3.3 Testing: Glyph of Eternal Water
One of the biggest change for all Frost Mages from the upcoming Patch 3.3, is the addition of a Glyph which will make our Water Elemental become a permanent pet. That is the Glyph of Eternal Water. Art by: John Avon I’ve been very interested in this Glyph ever since it was announced, but never [...]
PTR Patch 3.3 Testing: 20k Deep Freezes
Copied my Mage over to the Public Test Realm, and also copied some pre-made Mages over as well. Holy Crap! 20,000 damage Deep Freezes! That is only self buffed too! If you just add another 13% Damage increase from only Curse of Elements, you’re looking at 22.6k Deep Freeze! The character I used was the [...]
PTR Patch 3.3 – Deep Freeze on Bosses
The PTR Patch Notes have been updated once again on the WoW website with a few new changes to the upcoming patches. You can view the the full patch notes here. The only reason you are here reading however, is because of the new change to Deep Freeze. The new change to Deep Freeze is: [...]
PTR Patch 3.3 – Permanent Water Elemental
In the latest Build (10571) on the Public Test Realms, Blizzard made a few changes to the Mage class- all good ones. It looks like they have the Fire and Arcane tree right where they want them in terms of PvE DPS, and are working towards making the Frost tree more viable. Once again, you [...]
PTR Patch 3.2 Testing: Frostbolts and Mounts and Titles, Oh My!
I had some time over the weekend to play around for a little bit on the Public Test Realm. Mainly to see how fast my new Frostbolts are, but I stumbled upon other discoveries. Changes to Mounts and changes to Titles! Empowered Frostbolt So we know that Frost Mages will be getting a PvE buff [...]
PTR Patch 3.2 Testing: Living Bomb
I went onto the PTR again to record a short video of the new Living Bomb in action. It was kind of cool as everyone kind of just stopped and watched as I displayed a nice little fireworks show for them. What I’ve found, is how Mana efficient (yea you heard right) Living Bomb can [...]
PTR Patch 3.2 – Frost Mages Get Mortal Strike and More Haste
In the latest PTR Build 10072, Blizzard had made a few more changes to the Mage class- Frost Mages in particular. This had been brought to my attention by the folks at MMO-Champion, and you can view the entire list of changes here. Like always, I’ll be concentrating on the Mage changes. Frost Mage by [...]
PTR Patch 3.2 – Living Bomb on Multiple Targets
Now that I’m back into the mood to return to the World of Warcraft, I copied my character over to the new Public Test Realms to see what was going on with the next patch. So far I am liking it. The next content patch (3.2) will be called Call of the Crusade, and will [...]
PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Newest Build Give Mages Buffs
The newest PTR Build (9733) gives Mages a passive buff for our Improved Scorch and Winter’s Chill talents, as well as buff the new version of Molten Armor. The list of all changes can be found at MMO-Champion as always. Fire Living Bomb AoE damage has been greatly increased. Rank 3 now deals 690 Fire [...]
Attention Mages: Calm Down About Spirit!
To: Raiding Mages From: Tuna RE: Calm the $#@^ down about Spirit! Again, with my current gear, unbuffed, and only Rank 1 Student of the Mind, I’m at 517 Spirit. 7 pieces of my gear have Spirit on them (including 2 pieces T7.5), 10 pieces of the rest of my gear, have zero Spirit. 15.57 [...]
PTR Patch 3.1.0 – New Non-Combat Pet Icons
For those of you who care, new pet icons! These are the only ones I have noticed so far on the PTR, but the new changes makes it easier to find these pets in your pet tab. No more mistakenly summoning Eggbert when you wanted to summon Pengu. No more summoning the Netherwhelp when you [...]
PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Random Screenshots
Here are a few screenshots taken from the Public Test Realm for the upcoming Patch 3.1.0. Some of them are just to show some of the new stuff coming out, and some are of how nice the inside of the new raid instance, Ulduar, looks. New Look for Tier 7.5 Shoulders There is a new [...]
PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Set Bonuses and Crit Nerfs
Last night Blizzard hit us with the latest PTR Build (9704), which revealed all the set bonuses for the Tier 8 gear of all classes. You can take a look at all the set bonuses here at MMO-Champion. Mage Tier 8 Set Bonuses: 2 Pieces: Your Arcane Blast, Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt, and Fireball spells have [...]
PTR Patch 3.1.0 – The Flame Leviathan
I had a chance to test out one of the new Ulduar bosses on the Public Test Realm the other night. It was a full guild run, and the boss we were after was The Flame Leviathan. We were attempting the 10 man version of the fight, and the encounter was… interesting. You won’t be [...]
PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Equipment Manager
Another new feature to be released with Patch 3.1.0 is the ability to store equipment sets for your character. Pretty much Blizzard’s version of the popular mod, ItemRack, which I currently use today. The new feature is the Equipment Manager. To enable this feature, you need to go into your Interface option menu. Select “Control”, [...]
Is Dual Spec Worth 1000g?
If you have been on the Public Test Realm lately to test out Patch 3.1.0, or if you have been on the WoW>PTR Forums, then you will most likely have read a lot of player’s opinion about the whole Dual Spec feature. Some players are looking forward to the new feature, some could care less, [...]
PTR Patch 3.1.0 – New Features
You’re probably tired of reading about Patch 3.1.0 already, so this is for those of you who have no luck with PTR and want to see some of the new features. Dual Spec This new feature will allow players to pay a one-time fee (currently 1000g), to be able to have two different specs which [...]
PTR Patch 3.1.0 – New Mage Glyphs
More Mage changes were up on MMO-Champion.com, this time some changes to existing Glyphs, as well as some new ones. Once again you can look at them here at MMO-Champion.com. Glyph Changes: Glyph of Ice Lance: Your Ice Lance now causes 4 times damage against frozen targets higher level than you instead of triple damage. [...]
PTR Patch 3.1.0 – Frost Mage Replenishment
Instead of sleeping like I said I was going to do, I logged into my WoW account and copied my Mage over to the Public Test Realm (both PvP and PvE servers). Then opened up my PTR Client, logged in, and it started the download for the next PTR build. Weighing in at 733mb, it [...]
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