So awesome! Ritual of Refreshment is the best thing since...well, Conjured Sliced Bread, I suppose. ;) Looking forward to the improved version of Evocate, too.

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As if Spirit wasn't already somewhat deemphasized in Mages, now there will be practically no reason to stack it at all.

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No more damage tax.......

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Oh that's tasty indeed.

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Heh, so now we're going to have to carry green +int staves for evocation instead of green +spirit staves. Good times. Ah well, Int is slightly more useful than spirit. :)

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Posted this on the article above, then scrolled down and found that this one is the more appropriate place for it, so reposting:

Healing debuffs will now affect Drain spells and abilities. More specifically, Warrior's Mortal Strike will debuff Warlock's Drain Life and Siphon Life:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778037077&sid=1&pageNo=4#66

I'm guessing Orc's Blood Fury will debuff Drain/Siphon as well.

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hmm, some good changes coming up.
removal of the damage tax makes me wonder why they had to put it in the first place.

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Getting a lot of gold spam on the these 2.3 threads today :/

These are some awesome changes for mages though! Keep the 2.3 news coming :)

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No damage tax on Fireball and Frostbolt is made of Win and Strawberries.

Also, the more changes to come thing - I heard from a Complete Mage Nerd of my acquaintance that they are bringing back Rolling Ignites.

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@#8
bringing back Rolling Ignites would be TEH WIN, Strawberries and Whip Cream. Keep the News coming.

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no damage tax, yay!

other changes are also gonna be nice, just hope the ritual of refreshment makes a decent amount of food/drink.

evocation change is ok, but i like most people im sure just have a macro for equipping my spirit items.

best thing is definately no damage tax

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Man I hope that they dont limit it so you can only get *1* stack of food and *1* stack of water like how the healthstones from warlocks work.

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About bloody time on all counts.

TB.

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Hell yeah!

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No damage tax is...wow. MASSIVE.

Can't begin to imagine how they plan to balance that against other DPS classes. Heck, it's such a big boost I can't quite believe it'll ever happen. If they do rescind it after the announcement they'd better have a buffed ice barrier up to survive the flames.

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I think it's awesome that we mages get the most excited about Blizzard undoing things that they did to us long ago.

Also, the mass food/water thing is pretty awesome.

And I guess the re-worked Evocation rocks, too. Also the re-worked Arcane Mind is nice, giving the poor, neglected, Arcane Tree some love.

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There was some more stuff on my eu site,


# Detect Magic removed. All players may now see their target's beneficial effects at all times.

Fire Ward and Frost Ward now gain additional benefit from spell damage bonuses. Base absorb values of ranks 5 and 6 have been reduced.

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Haha I was surprised to get al the way to the 12th post before we got a comment from TB..

Happy days no more taxes....

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But what about changing my mage armor icon?

...seriously though,

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Hmm... would rather have seen a new "Improved Arcane Meditation" talent a little further down the tree to get the bonus mana regen. Would have been a big help to the OOM arcane mages.

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"Can't begin to imagine how they plan to balance that against other DPS classes."

Mages are supposed to deal the most amount of damage in the game. Says so right on worldofwarcraft.com. You can't even spell damage without mage! Damage is the only thing mages have. Taking away from that simply defeats the very foundation of the entire class.

Also, the buffs to Meditation and Evocation confuse me.
Meditation now SCREAMS for stacked spirit, Evocation demands that you never bother with spirit again.
Say whut?

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