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  read the test realm forums http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4665464955&sid=1 som... : Patch-e
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    Oh, mages now have Icy Veins which is a 20 second buff that gives haste. It's an 11 point talent that re... : Grumbeld
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      LOL no more ice block? wow ok thats retarded too. : Slowtreme
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        everyone gets ice block now : Dravenport
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          i left WoW a year ago but it seems the characters get so powerful as time goes on. they have now given i... : handofthrawn
          • yes : Dravenport
          • That's the way these hack Class Managers are doing things. They actually listen to their community (big ... : Rotten Deadite
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            They still have lots to work on with mages. Without iceblock, fire or arcane mages were dead in seconds in the arena. It at least forces the other team to focus somewhere else.

            Feb 20, 2008 7:51am PST
            They still have lots to work on with mages. Without iceblock, fire or arcane mages were dead in seconds ... : pigvomit
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            Yep, the devs behind WoW have no idea how to manage the progression. You can't continually exponentially ... : Modica Sol Solis
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              it seems like they are just sitting on the last curve of the game. all the time spent on the other dozen... : handofthrawn
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                Most people don't want to do the same dungeon repeatedly and many do want to eventually overpower old con... : Chod
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                  That's fine. Normal linear progression of a character is fine and dandy. But characters in WoW grow in st... : Modica Sol Solis
                  • Which is why they sped up leveling. Of course, now low level dungeons are completely meaningless if you ... : Grumbeld
          • And yet mages are still way underpowered :( : Majuju
          • and yet mages are still behind the curve : brewsterdog
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            LOL! fills up your mana... you're so funny. More like gives you half your mana back : Grumbeld
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              ...if you can stand still for 6 seconds and not get hit : reign27
              • Giving Evocation to everyone was a good move (he says as a biased mage). It was basically a requirement,... : slax0r
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        ice block is trainable now. : ImageOmega
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          Ice Block has doubled my survivable time in Arenas. It is a HUGE improvement. : pigvomit
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            that was the whole point of being an icemage. I dont understand why this is a for all mage now. : Slowtreme
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              It's like when all druids got innervate =P : action roommate
              • maybe... I would agree if druids actually used innervate on themselves. It was made trainable because all... : Slowtreme
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  Priest PI? I know there was talk of some Priest changes -- including a Mana Burn nerf. Dunno much bey... : changejar419
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    Notes say they are changing PI to be a haste spell instead of +damage. The Mana Burn thing is a buff to r... : Slowtreme
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      Have you ever played with Mr. T? : Lightzout
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        is this a trick question : Slowtreme
        • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bsOKH3_DNo : naios
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  I'm guessing it's something to do with talents... so what 11 point talent is there that might be better t... : Grumbeld
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    oh, power infusion : Grumbeld
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      I guess Mage Icy Veins is the 11 - 20% haste for 20 seconds (self cast only) Power infusion 31 points ... : Slowtreme
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        so what is their deal with all this haste crap? they trying to scale back +dmg from getting too high? a... : multisync
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          20% is 20%. It's going to be a noticeable increase. I mean that's a straight increase of DPS. As far as H... : Duffman8369
          • so far on the PTR Sunwell is completely loaded with haste gear. : naios
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            20% increase on an instant cast = 0% increase in damage. This change sucks in many ways. : TrptJim
            • DPS goes up though! : naios
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              Decreases Global Cooldown soon! And how many fucking instant casts do you use? : Duffman8369
              • Only down to the default 1 second no? That should only affect you if you're getting a castspeed debuff. I... : TrptJim
        • small increments of haste are useless. I think everyone figured that out. But if you get up to like 200 h... : Slowtreme
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          Haste is interesting in that for pve, it's a straight damage boost, but for pvp it's mostly a tactical ab... : nurglich
          • It isn't necessarily a straight dps boost as not all classes benefit from haste and some classes that do ... : Chod
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  latest 2.4 patch notes == hundreds of Elemental shaman getting kicked from Arena teams. good game, Blizza... : eskimo spy
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    I think Blizzard has proven they have no idea what is going on with Arena. : Evil Benius
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      I think they have far too much in the air that they are attempting to balance, solo PvE, 5 man PvE, raid ... : pigvomit
      • What people have a hard time grasping is that a game like WoW has to constantly change and evolve. There... : action roommate
      • They concentrate at all on World PVP? : Grumbeld
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    What did they change? As it is every elemental shaman I see is in full season 3 gear anyway. : action roommate
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      You can no longer activate the instant cast (Nature's Swiftness) and guaranteed crit (Elemental Mastery) ... : yemeth
      • Oh boo fucking hoo : action roommate
      • lol : Phreakin
      • it's not that big of a deal. the tremor totem change is a pretty nice buff anyway : JINKY
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    Every patch not should read the same way: Class Changes - Whichever class whined the most last tim... : Phreakin
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      if that were true Shaman and Mages would be able to win 5-man Arenas solo, by now. all the outraged QQ fr... : eskimo spy
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        What's funny is how content the lock and rogue forums look. If you check out the number of complaint pos... : pigvomit
        • Rogues bitch all the time. Why is my cooldown 5 minutes?!?!?! It should be 5 seconds!!!! : Phreakin
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          mages have nothing to complain about. shamans are terrible in pvp unless you're elemental in a 5 man tea... : AllYourBase
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            Well only if you consider frost mages. Any other mage is handicapped by the lack of insta casts. PoM/py... : pigvomit
            • same with pretty much every other class, if I spec raiding shadow I'm so gimped in arena it's a joke for ... : naios
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  Holy shit! There was some merit to the Nurturing Instinct for druids. It does increase healing received b... : SilverSnake
  • Ya, that would give bear tanks a good 500+ healing or more : action roommate
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  The PI change is a huge nerf. And it's not like it was an abused/game breaking ability. I don't get it.... : kek
  • its because PI + Bloodlust/Heroism was way too overpowered. : Iwannaacura
  • Yes, as a warlock that travels around with a PI priest I'm quite unhappy with this nerf. :-( : atom519
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  Badges of Justice have been added to all raid bosses who did not previously have them!] Surely this me... : action roommate
  • Yeah probably just BC stuff since you can't cash them in if you don't have BC. : pigvomit
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    BC 70+ only : Slowtreme
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      No no farming Wailing Caverns for badges then? Shit. : Phreakin
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        WC isn't a raid instance though. : SilverSnake
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          We run level 5 40 mans through it : Phreakin
          • It has a 10-man limit. :( I know I'm killing your joke, but I'm a bastard like that. : SilverSnake
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  * Chastise no longer disorients the target, but now is instant cast and roots the target for 2 second... : Iwannaacura
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    What is Chastise? I've been looking for the talent, but I can't find it. : Slowtreme
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      You have to be a female and it's under the nagging tree : Phreakin
      • ok I'm 1/2 way there. a little more help plz : Slowtreme
      • ^^ needs more love. : five_percent
    • it was a priest racial introduced like a stun. http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=44041 with ranks 1-x : Iwannaacura
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      It is the replacement racial for Fear Ward that Dwarves and Draenei priests got. : Evil Benius
      • oh roger, My priest is not one of those races : Slowtreme
  • Hopefully that PI change is temporary. : Ajax
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  The faggot Alliance whined enough about AV until Blizzard bent over and moved the Horde starting point ba... : Phil
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    I still think the battlegrounds should be mirrored if they want parity. Bunkers suck to defend. : pigvomit
    • They need to figure out some kind of lore excuse for alliance and horde to work together, then just rando... : ZombieAcademy
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    they still won't on stormstrike because we fucking own : Patch-e
    • What up Stormstrike; Duskwood reporting. : Majuju
  • I'd be happier to lose AV every so often than have 90min+ queue times for a win. : action roommate
  • the question is: why wasn't it the same distance from the beginning. Stupid that everyone jumps out the s... : Slowtreme
  • yeah and as usual it will screw over the other half of players who are in Alliance-heavy battlegroups. In... : eskimo spy
  • Alliance will still lose but this was a good change. Any horde that things otherwise I'm sorry but this w... : Chod
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    what i dont understand is that the alliance have a huge terrain advantage right now. on my BG all I see a... : maulla
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      Alliance doesn't really have a terrain advantage where it matters in AVs current implentation, the horde ... : Chod
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        Choke points don't really work in wow though. In a real battle 20 defenders could mow down 30 attackers i... : Korjan
        • That doesn't happen at all on the Stormstrike battlegroup. Either the alliance get stopped right at the c... : Chod
      • Thats only if a large number of horde defend the chokepoint, and if alliance just rush through enough get... : rhuntley12
    • IB is the easiest to hold graveyard in the BG, but no one ever defends it. The only point that is as hard... : SenorSpine
  • Alliance usually wins AV on my battlegroup, unless horde defends and it turns into a 30-60min win. Hell w... : rhuntley12
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  I'm so glad I quit. From the sound of things priests are still getting screwed over : shred.
  • They would have to create an alter boy classe to reverse that : shavenewok
  • yep im glad i sold my priest at its peak s1 dominance with shadow owning everything and all other talents... : Iwannaacura
  • Every patch some class is getting screwed over. It eventually evens out. : TrptJim
• Priest changes suck. Mage changes rock. Druid changes suck (I can see why they did it though). Shaman... : TheTick