Coming Soon: Changes for mages

[Klaus]

And Klaus, Mages are among that list of powerful classes, yet Blizzard continues to cater to them while doing nothing for those other powerful classes. And if you look at the DPS charts, you'll see that Mages are right up there at the top on DPS. If they were not doing so well, I could see boosts being handed out, but in the case of Ice Block, you have a talent that is being given as a class skill frivalously.

Oh, trust me, I was peeved to hear about this change. Fire mages are a pain in the ass in the arena as it is, and this will make them a pain in the ass and make them hard to kill. I truly, truly hate dotting up a mage, only to have them wiped by ice block.

And if you look at a lot of encounters, at least in the Terenas lurkers, the mages are not the #1 damage dealers. Rogues and warlocks are up there, and before he left the game, our elemental shaman was way up there. I frequently beat most of the mages as a shadow priest, and that's with the mages in my group getting the mana return. So, I truly understand the mana gem change.