lemekim,May 6 2006, 09:14 PM Wrote:You are missing the point. Mages got natural instant Arcane Explosion (and Evocation) because people pretty much HAD to spec that far down Arcane tree so that they could actually AOE well, and have means of replenishing mana during long fights.
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Precisely. When nearly every mage build has had the specs set up to include those 2 talent to make the class even decently playable at all, that point needed to be adressed.
The sad part is that for part of beta the developers had Arcane Explosion functioning as an instant cast spell, then changed it to its current form when they added mage talents. That just caused a bit of an uproar then because most saw it as what was; forcing the mages to spend a fixed amount of talent points to give them an essential tool for dealing with many of the encounters in the game.
Evocation was not seen as that important at the time of the introduction of the talents due to having spirit function to full effect (along with eating and drinking in combat) even when in combat and the fact that the level cap was something like 39 at the time. Well before most players were starting to see the longer raid fights that would require some sort of major mana recovery to get through the fight. But after the introduction of such raid encounters, Evocation ended up being seen as a required skill to make it in any type of larger raid run.