Coming Soon: Changes for mages

[Lissa]

They've stated that the change is so they can balance PvE encounters around mages having Ice Block. Quite understandable.
(EDIT: Source.)

They have invisibiity for this reason. If they can't maintain their aggro, that's their own fault. Warlocks have to deal with threat far more than Mages do and they get a half aggro wipe that can be resisted where as Invisibility cannot. I'll stick by my earlier comment of it being a frivalous change, it's not needed at all.

Seriously, cut it out. Blizzard has nerfed mages in the past. Counterspell on the GCD was a hefty nerf, as was the coefficiency tax. They were reversed because they were way too much.

I'll also add that mages are currently not among the top damage dealing classes. Rogues and warlocks beat them out of the water with relative ease.

And other classes haven't been nerfed as bad? Please, other classes have seen far more numerous nerfs than Mages and yet Blizzard hasn't reversed any of their nerfs. If you look at it from that stand point, yes, it certainly does look like coddling to me, especially when they throw out frivalous changes like the IB change.