Birthdays are Probably Necessary

It’s my birthday today, so I highly doubt there will be any proper blog post today or tomorrow.
As with any birthday, I’m setting some time aside to get drunk have some fun with friends family.
I’ll see y’all monday if I’m not still hung over having fun!

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It’s Raping My Nose!

Much has been made of these newfanged “morality” style quests. Rohan, for instance, railed long and hard against them, and more recently, little “death by fire” gnomey has had some… issues with the whole deal.
My question is this: where and how, precisely, does the whole idea of “morals” translate to the game?
The real me would [...]

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Why is This on Fire?

I’m probably not the first one to observe this, but has anyone noticed that Ret Pallies are the primary source of Mage QQ? I’m serious!
The largest group of people yelling that mages need nerfs? Ret Paladins. All those threads that start with “mages are overpowered” or “arcane is OP”? Nearly all of them started by [...]

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I’m Like a Prophet or Something

Can I call it, or what?
So yeah, in case you haven’t noticed, the nerf bat has swung and arcane was smacked upside the head.
First, as I foretold, the ability to clip Arcane Missiles to sneak in an ABarr (so both benefit from the stacked ABlast buff) has been removed.
Arcane Missiles consumes the charges immediately, rather [...]

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Irregardless is Not a Word

A long, long time ago, the rogue class had this concept called “combo points”. And druids, too, I guess, though who cares about druids?
Since then, the whole “combo point” thing has spread to every corner of the WoW game. You can even ride around on dragons that are obsessed with combo points.
At it’s most basic [...]

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Frosted Butts! HAHAHA No

Goals:

To increase the DPS of the frost tree in a raiding environment
Avoid rendering frost overpowered in PvP
Give frost a proper mana dump, and preferably any mechanic that forces the mage to think and plan, no matter how simple it is
Incorporate both Deep Freeze and Ice Lance into the raiding environment

And do it all within the [...]

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Frosted Flakes

In true mage fashion, mere days after being handed a massive pile of steaming buff, I’m back here complaining up a storm.
QQ, as some might say.
Yes. Yes it is.
QQ moar, some might say.
To them, I say: Very well.
So Frostfire Bolt was fun. Unreasonably huge crits, easy to play, and took the other specs DPS and [...]

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Nuke Them From Orbit!

It’s the only way to be sure.
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I had a dream where I was a Discipline priest, healing my arse off in battlegrounds. Bubbles, Flash Heal, and Penance were hurled about like free candy.
There were even incredibly specific moments, like Mass Dispelling a mage out of Ice Block and keeping a warrior dispelled so he could [...]

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Facelift Gets an Arcane

3.0.8 has been released, and hopefully by now you’ve been able to experience the joy of crashing servers and the pain of watching your friends all go offline while you sit safely in an instance server.
Or something like that, anyways.
I’ve talked about this before, but the patch is here now, so it’s all official “this [...]

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Gear Guidelines

Basic Stats
Spellpower is typically your strongest stat, superior to everything else, with hit a close second (until you are hitcapped). If you have higher values of spellpower and aren’t hit capped, hit is your strongest stat.
The relative worth of crit and haste depend on spec and the strength of the other two main DPS stats.
*Note*
Don’t [...]

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