WoW TWW Patch 11.1 Development Notes - Mage Changes
We will go over the most recent dev notes for Mages in the upcoming World of Warcraft The War Within "Undermine(d)" patch.
A lot of massive changes will arrive in Patch 11.1, and many World of Warcraft players can't wait to try out the new raid, Mythic+ dungeons and score some new tier sets, given the new approach by the devs in terms of tuning and balancing.
With that in mind, we got a huge batch of changes from the TWW PTR so we will take a closer look at all of the Mage changes.
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WoW TWW Mage Changes 11.1
- Time Anomaly procs now ignore mana costs.
Arcane
- New Talent: Aether Fragment – Aethervision’s damage bonus is increased to 15%. Choice node with Leysight.
- Arcane Barrage damage increased by 10%.
- Nether Precision no longer benefits Arcane Barrage.
Developers’ notes: Arcane Barrage benefitting from Nether Precision has proven to convolute your rotational decision-making around Arcane Barrage.
Spellslinger
- Splintering Sorcery now generates a splinter when you consume Nether Precision or a fully stacked Aethervision.
Fire
Frostfire
- Excess Frost cooldown reduction reduced to 5 seconds (was 10 seconds).
Sunfury
- Fixed an issue causing Ignite the Future to not increase Mana Cascade stacks.
Frost
- Wintertide has been updated – Damage from Frostbolt and Flurry increases the damage of your Icicles and Glacial Spike by 4%, stacking up to 4 times.
Developers’ notes: Now that Fingers of Frost doesn’t consume Winter’s Chill, Wintertide had the potential to create some unintuitive rotational priorities.
- Winter’s Chill duration increased to 8 seconds (was 6 seconds).
- Fingers of Frost’s Frozen Orb chance to trigger reduced to 5% (was 10%).
- Blizzard damage reduced by 40%.
Developers’ notes: We’re aware of an issue where the damage component of Blizzard did not have its range appropriately increased to 12 yards, but the fix did not make it into this build.
- Comet Storm, Glacial Assault, Wintertide, and Lonely Winter have had their positions changed on the talent tree.
Frostfire
- Excess Frost cooldown reduction reduced to 5 seconds (was 10 seconds).
And that covers all of the changes so far. As more and more players test out the Patch 11.1 content on the PTR, we can expect the next major update to The War Within might look very promising in the long run. You can also check out the official notes, here.
