Class Changes in Build 8885 of the Wrath of the Lich King Beta: Mage
Arcane
- Slow: Reduces targets movement speed by 60%, increases ranged attack speed by 60% and casting speed by 60% (old: 50%).
Fire
- Improved Scorch: Your Scorch spells have a 33/66/100% chance to cause your target to be vulnerable to spell damage, increasing spell critical strike chance against that target by 2% and lasts 30 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
- Hot Streak: Any time you score 2 spell criticals in a row using Fireball, Scorch, or Frostfire Bolt, you have a 33/66/100% chance the next Pyroblast spell cast within 10 sec will be instant cast.
Frost
- Fingers of Frost now lasts 15 secs, but only affects your next 2 frost spells.
- Improved Water Elemental: Makes your Water Elemental restore mana to all party or raid members an amount equal to 0.2/.4/.6% of their total mana every 5 secs.
Additional Changes
- Focus Magic now affects the raid.
New Glyphs
- Glyph of Arcane Intellect: Reduce the mana cost of your Arcane Intellect and Arcane Brilliance spells by 50%.
- Glyph of Slow Fall: Your Slow Fall spell no longer requires a reagent.
- Glyph of Fire Ward: You have an additional 5% chance to reflect Fire spells while your Fire Ward is active.
- Glyph of Frost Ward: You have an additional 5% chance to reflect Frost spells while your Frost Ward is active.
- Glyph of Ice Armor: Increases the duration of your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 30 min.



















