BOOM here comes the BOOM ready or not, haha how you like me now?!
LK has, so far, been the best expansion in history for mages. Multiple specs viable for both PvE and PvP, and patch 3.3 is gifting us with a PvE viable frost spec (or close enough for most people), and a fire tree that’s viable for PvP.
Wait, what? Hell yeah, fire for PvP.
Been paying attention to the PTR notes? No? Forgot? Here’s a ‘fresher:
- Mana cost of DB and BW slashed, they’re cheap as dirt now.
- Firestarter, that talent everyone ignores that gives you instant flame strikes when you use DB or BW, now also makes that flamestrike cost no mana.
- Burning Determination now grants you immunity to the next silence or interrupt effect.
Fire already has other talents which edge it close to being a great PvP spec. Fireblasts that can stun, Living Bomb on unlimited targets, instant pyros whenever you crit twice, blazing speed, a disarm and anti-execute damage reduction.
In case you missed it, the Scorch effect applies all five stacks immediately as of 3.3. No need for the glyph at all. Hurray for raiding fire mages! The glyph is still around of course, providing a 20% boost to scorch damage. Bah, says the raiders, no one will ever take that. (more…)