The new patch is here!

[Bolty]

You mean non-warriors and non-mages =\

No, I meant what I said.

Mages have been hit With a gigantic nerf bat. The switchover from Sleep to Polymorph has once again turned mages into a class that's only good for one thing: doing damage, and as a class they don't do nearly enough damage to be worth having along in a group. Since Polymorph turns the monster into a sheep (an obvious change for PvP without thinking of the PvE ramifications), the Mage's crowd control is now gone. I'll explain.

Sheep cannot be attacked or they'll come back to normal. They also regenerate very quickly. But the main problem is that the sheep run off, and when they morph back they invite any buddies in the vicinity to come and smack you down. If you use Polymorph in a dungeon, start running, because you're dead meat. Mages are now back to phase 1 - they have very little party usage, and will be shunned by other classes because they're just troublemakers. Remember that Mages, in a party, can't just let loose like they do solo or they draw aggro. When a Mage, physically weak as they are, draws aggro, the party has to stop what they're doing and save him/her. In the end, without Sleep, mages will simply be the annoyances they were in phase 1, when I recall having a tough time finding groups who would play with me in the dungeons as a mage.

At least mages get talents. I have not yet seen the talents for mages, so I can't comment on if there's anything there that would help mages out.

See, Sleep was too powerful in PvP, so it needed a change. But this was too drastic. I don't understand why they didn't just try seeing what would happen with the diminishing returns system of crowd control implemented this patch for PvP (see the patch notes). Every class can bring something to a party now, except for mages - and don't tell me passing out conjured food and water makes up for all the other deficiencies, because it doesn't. :)

As usual, there are a ton of changes not listed in the patch notes, and those are coming out on the Blizzard general forums. Good to take a look.

-Bolty