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Ice Lance: Range increased to 40 yds, up from 35. Damage against frozen targets now tripled, up from doubled. Now costs 1% of base mana, down from 6%.let the tears of hatred fall down upon us like a tropical storm in may

hahahahhahahaahha

Which means this is gonna be a fun ride!

But fewer ways to freeze people, my pretties.

27/03/2012 09:28Posted by Cinondra

But fewer ways to freeze people, my pretties.

and fewer ways to proc FoF.

Regardless this is going to cause whine yeah. Ice lance is in no way getting stronger in MoP, as we wont use it quite as often.

Ice lance can currently proc from frostbolt (20% chance) and orb of frost (50% chance). Correct me if I'm wrong. Orb of Frost has a 1 min CD, and you can, actually as an opponent, just move away from it.

Might aswell add this

Shatter: Now grants double chance for critical strike against frozen targets (was triple) plus an additional 40%. Now a passive skill for all specs.

TRALALALLALALALLALALALLALLALLALALLA ICE LANCE ICE LANCE YEA YEA!!!
And that shatter change is awsome now I have 60% chance but with that it would be 80% ( inb4 change)

P.S. Combustion: Now costs 10% of base mana and has a 45 sec cooldown, down from 2 min. Wording change to only combine Pyroblast, Ignite, and Flamestrike spell DoT components. Now also stuns the target for 3 sec.

You fail to notice things outside of the Ice Lance change here. The classes change, the mechanics change, the abilities changed, everything is changed - PvP in Mists of Pandaria won't be anything like PvP in Cataclysm, so stop taking those beta changes and applying them to the current game. By this reasoning, every single thing is overpowered.

Rhoben we are just enjoying another spam icelance wait for something to drop expansion ( fml), instead of frostbolt acctually doing some dmg instead of being a tool to do more ice lances when you cast them on non frozen targets.

27/03/2012 09:55Posted by Rhoben

You fail to notice things outside of the Ice Lance change here. The classes change, the mechanics change, the abilities changed, everything is changed - PvP in Mists of Pandaria won't be anything like PvP in Cataclysm, so stop taking those beta changes and applying them to the current game. By this reasoning, every single thing is overpowered.

duh

but it was a fun read , common
why so serious

its dmg scales with the massive health increase and far higher resilance dmg reduction we will have at 90.

the health pools will be around 230k + at entry lvl MoP pvp for non tank based classes unbuffed

Regardless this is going to cause whine yeah.

I'm not sure. Fewer freezes, fewer FOF procs. Looks to me like Blizz are trying to reduce its use.

It might become a bit like lock's Fel Flame.

Brb powerleveling mage for MoP

27/03/2012 11:10Posted by Chopin

I'm not sure. Fewer freezes, fewer FOF procs. Looks to me like Blizz are trying to reduce its use.

People don't care (and think). They just see ice lance getting buffed and start whining. Same deal with the "15% ice lance buff" that wasn't a buff.

The damage is all very susceptible to change, mage will be dumb in 5.0 like always, but we'll see about 90.

Could someone remind me the last nerf for mages?

They started nerfing warlocks in The Burning Crusade, and apparently they still got lots of plans to make all Warlocks quit this game.

Reduce mages their damage with 75% then we can talk.

brb rerolling mage

Could someone remind me the last nerf for mages?

They started nerfing warlocks in The Burning Crusade, and apparently they still got lots of plans to make all Warlocks quit this game.

Reduce mages their damage with 75% then we can talk.

Except warlocks still like the best class in the game right now, on par with rogue and shaman.

27/03/2012 14:05Posted by Itsthatdude

brb rerolling mage

I did that quite a while ago, haven't regret a moment since :)

Can't wait for MoP, looks big for all 3 specs :)

Except warlocks still like the best class in the game right now, on par with rogue and shaman.

yes in arena with a pocket healer, other than that we are no way on the same level as mages!
anyways i am now going to bite the bullet as they say and roll a mage

27/03/2012 15:07Posted by Kinchy

<blockquote/>Except warlocks still like the best class in the game right now, on par with rogue and shaman.

yes in arena with a pocket healer, other than that we are no way on the same level as mages!
anyways i am now going to bite the bullet as they say and roll a mage

And arena is where balance matters so yeah it's working pretty well for locks.