Undocumented Class Changes for Wrath of the Lich King Beta (8962) – Mage

Mage

Arcane
Skills

• Arcane Blast changed. Each time you cast Arcane Blast, the damage is increased by 15% and mana cost is increased by 300%. (Previously 25% damage increase and 75% mana increase, but the 300% is most likely a typo and should be 30%)
• Arcane Brilliance now affects the whole raid.

Talents

• Focus Magic (Tier 3) changed to – Increases the target’s chance to critically hit with all spells by 3%. When the target critically hits the caster’s chance to critically hit with spells is increased by 3% for 10 sec.
• Improved Arcane Missles renamed Arcane Stability.
• Arcane Stability (Tier 1) – Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Arcane Missiles and Arcane Blast by 20/40/60/80/100%.

Fire
Skills

• Flamestrike mana cost reduced and is now a 2 sec cast. (Previously 3 sec cast)

Frost
Talents

• Fingers of Frost (Tier 8 ) now gives your Chill effects a 7/15% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect. (Previously 5/10% chance on frost spells)
• Frozen Core (Tier 5) now reduces damage taken by all spells. (Previously only affected fire and frost)
• Shatter (Tier 4) is now 3 ranks. It increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 17/34/50%. (Previously 5 ranks and increased by 10/20/30/40/50%)
• Ice Shards (Tier 2) is now 3 ranks. It increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 33/66/100%. (Previously 5 ranks and increased by 20/40/60/80/100%)

Glyphs

• Glyph of Frostfire has been added – Increases the initial damage dealt by Frostfire Bolt by 2% and its critical strike chance by 2%.
• Glyph of Remove Curse – Your Remove Curse spell also makes the target immune to all Curses for 4 sec. (Old – 6 sec)
• Glyph of Fireball – Increases the critical strike chance of Fireball by 5%, but removes the damage over time effect. (Old – Increases the initial damage dealt by Fireball by 5%, but removes the damage over time effect.)
• Glyph of Improved Scorch – The Improved Scorch talent now generates 3 (Old – 5) applications of the Improved Scorch effect each time Scorch is cast.