ALL 3 SPECS ARE CHANGING!! Everything You Need To Know About The Mage Rework In PvP

TIMESTAMPS
Intro - 00:00
Apex Gaming PCs - 00:29
General Tree Changes - 00:57
Arcane Mage Changes - 04:16
Fire Mage Changes - 06:33
Frost Mage Changes - 10:56

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[veldhuizenc]

Ven said Glacial Spike is unchanged, but that's not true!

1. Cast time reduced
2. Splitting Ice glacials are nerfed in half in PvP (less free, situational cleave)
3. Glacial contributes to Thermal Void

[adamnelson]

Can't wait to wait in queue with these new changes!

[acesx]

btw at 8:17 u said u were critting more than usual, thats because of the firestarter talent, which gives u guarenteed chance to crit if the target is above 90% health, and that target dummy's health wasnt moving from 100%

[Plethoring]

More passive haste. So exciting! Took them years to come up with such an interesting talent!

[sektenspinner]

Nice, I'm looking forward to the nice fire mage rework that looks completely new, innovative and not at all like it has for the last 5 years :))

[chc]

Took them this long to make Ray of Frost not a shitty button to press.

[tomsetberg]

The more important piece of deep impact is the 30% cooldown reduction on meteor. So you get both the 20% bonus damage and 30% off the cooldown. Which if it gets used at all will most likely be used on hard swaps to the healer and would actually be very effective and most likely bring RMP back to the forefront of pvp.

I mean you could theoretically take the 15 fb / pb = meteor talent with meteor and deep impact. stack up to 14 cc the team and blink db meteor (cheap / kidney from rogue) combust fire blast and your first pyroblast should also call down a meteor. So if its done correctly you should have two meteors hitting at almost the same time right at the start of combustion. So you would be looking at nearly 400k damage coming out in the first second of combustion.

[exfeel]

a slight heal - its not a strong heal its like 20%....
mage....

[QPoily]

Another big problem with Cryo Freeze is that it doesn't remove debuffs which removes the ability to use Ice Block as a pseudo trinket. OTOH Cryo Freeze does enable you to still function offensively while practically eliminating the possibility of you dying when taking the talent that heals you (I think 1 point in it for 40% HP heal is already enough to make you functionally immortal).

Also Arcane did get a slightly notable change to their Evocation. By taking Siphon Storm it also speeds up the channel by 100%. So instead of a 6 second channel it becomes a 3second channel instead. 3 second channel and you gain a 24% dmg buff for 30 seconds. I think you could easily take the point out of Arcane Tempo (increased haste upon spending Arc Charges) and 1 point out of Improved Arcane Missiles (10% dmg buff to AM) in favor of taking Evocation + Siphon storm. Improved Prismatic Barrier also get a moderate buff. I think taking the point out of Mana Adept (gain 2% mana for every Arc Charge expanded) in favor of that is for sure worth since Evocation's mana regen should 100% eliminate the possibility of you ever going OOM in arena. I also wonder if it'd be worth sacrificing 1 point from Prodigious Savant (increases Mastery impact on Arcane Blast by 20% per rank) for Conjure Mana Gem instead. Conjure Mana Gem's 5% increased dmg for 12 seconds not only outperforms 1 point of Prodigious Savant in terms of increased AB damage, but the 25% mana boost you get from it also increases the likelihood you'll benefit from the Enlightened talent (increases dmg by 6% when above 70% mana) which then results in Conjure Mana Gem effectively increasing your burst damage by 11%. Granted IF you take Evocation + Siphon Storm mana already should not be an issue whatsoever, but Mana Gem's 5% dmg amp is already quite strong on its own.

All of these mana talents also guarantee your ability to spam Spellsteal without ever running into mana issues.

[Eree]

Seems like we still need a PHD to play the specs.

[ben_ger]

hm why do you spec into slow as a frostmage? i dont think its needed at all. Some other options seem way better to me.

[JustDoIt]

How in the world is Ice Cold a "4 min dispersion" or much worse than Ice Block? LOL
Firstly, Ice Block requires the Cryo-Freeze talent to heal, exactly the same as Ice Cold.
Secondly, Ice Cold heals you the same amount in much less time.
Thirdly, Ice Cold allows you to move(unlike Ice Block) and cast(unlike both Ice Block and Dispersion). Which also allows you to interrupt Mass Dispel, which often ruins Ice Block.

[overdrive]

Bro 1, 6 for a pc with an i5? And 500gb ssd

[OldUndeadMaleModel]

nothing here makes me jump back on my mage with excitement

[Gewsfrahba]

is glacial spike usable you think? did that playstyle get any love?

[sabahkw]

Ray of frost should be like demon hunter eye beam honestly with visuals of diablo 3 or 4 mages

[joebrandau]

Ven can you do a vedio on how they brok the solo q? they are now loading in low mmr healers like 0-800 mmr into 1800-2200 mmr games... they are trying to fix it but broker it more

[norbe]

Its not a dispersion you can do full dmg meanhile no? only thing is i guess u cant use it in stun anymore

[matthewtvs]

Yoooo, was wondering when will you do that! Thank youu!

[TheGrimravager]

Thanks so much Venruki, finally logged in after servers came back online (eu patch day was clown fiesta). All my talents were reset, idfk what I picked or should be picking. This video has helped me get into the arenas within 10 minutes of logging in <3