Arcane mages are insane fun right now (been fiddling with a friend’s not Nessaja’s) but it feels REALLY overpowered in PVP. The mana regen too with Mage Armor is something I wasn’t expecting.
Mage Armor OP?
For what it’s worth, Mage Armor is quite powerful, but it’s a trade-off. It’s going to make mages harder to kill [...]

Today I actually have some really good discussions about class DPS and the general feel of balance coming into Wrath of the Lich King. There are a lot of whiny little brats on the forums that are so convinced their class is gimped because they have no fucking skill at all, that it’s causing some [...]

There’s not much in the way of spoken word that these images can’t self explain. Horde & Alliance will have separate quarters in the city and opposing players can’t cross those borders, I like that idea. It’s still maintaining that we are ENEMIES NOT FRIENDS and we are only calling a very shakey and fragile [...]

So in a nutshell Warriors are going to be Barbarians from Diablo II, Rogues get an AOE, Warlocks can shapeshift, Druids are getting Dire Cat, and Mages will become walking explosions.
Mage

Mage Armor will be reworked to reduce harmful debuff durations, so that’s a more suitable raid armor. Finally.
New ability: Frostfire Bolt. In itself it’s [...]

This is going to make mages and warlocks both very happy. I on the other hand would normally be bothered since I normally go purge happy whenever I see a warlock or mage, but at least this way I conserve a little more mana.
Mages

Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor, and Molten Armor are no [...]

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I got an email today from a reader asking two pretty good questions. Both of which involve PVP to some degree. They came from a J. Rundell who [...]

It’s been here for a while now and it seems we’ve got confirmation. What really strikes me is the possibility that in Wrath of the Lich King these two cities will be big.
I imagine a Zepplin leaving Stonard to take Horde to Northrend, and a boat from the MANY open Theramore docks to take Alliance [...]

Basically mmo-champions uncovered game files in Patch 2.4 that show two new mage portals to Theramore and Stonard.

Quite possibly this might be in place for a number of different reasons, the biggest theory right now being they are ports of entry to Northrend in Wrath of the Lich King.
Stonard can have a new zepplin tower [...]

Kalgan has been a busy little bee lately on the forums. From (what feel like empty) promises on the shaman forums, to answering serious concerns and QQ’s in the warlock forums. Now he’s turned his sights to the cacophony on the mage forums.
The title of the original thread was “Kalgan please talk to us” it’s [...]

It took me a while to get things up and running so I could address this question the right way (in fancy words, I did a lot of research). I received this question today from Monk:
“I am debating staying frost or changing to PoM pyro and hvy arcane. The frost just doesnt seem to do [...]

Shaman

Flametongue debuff now removes 25% of healing efficiency on the target for 5 seconds and stack up to two times. The duration remains 5 seconds.

Mechanics changes

We’ve recently made a change for an upcoming 2.4 PTR update that will increase the amount of targets affected by Mass Dispel to a total of 10. (Source)
Bloodlust/Heroism will, again, [...]

Bornakk replied to this post regarding complaints about spell pushback. Personally it just seems like he took some obvious troll bait and will be kicking himself for it later.
Q u o t e:
This is absurd, caster cannot cast any decent spell because 2 rogues are keeping their cast bar at essentially 0

When you are [...]