Few Minor Up Coming Changes

Mage

Mirror Image: The images no longer cast Polymorph.
Fire

Improved Scorch: Increased critical strike chance is now 1%, down from 2% per application of the Improved Scorch effect.
Frost

Winter’s Chill: Increased critical strike chance is now 1%, down from 2% per application of Winter’s Chill.

u know if it will stack with the new upcomming warlock Shadowbolt debuff?(%5)

From what ive been reading on EJ no they wont, so im guessing dropping the points in IS and Glyph, Provided there is a Warlock with ISB was in raid comp. Also looks like there really trying to make Frost far more viable in raids it seems. Also some Glyph changes.

Glyph of Ice Lance -- Your Ice Lance now causes 4 times damage against frozen targets higher level than you instead of triple damage. (Old: Increases the range of your Ice Lance by 5 yards)
Glyph of Ice Armor -- Your Ice Armor and Frost Armor spells grant an additional 50% armor and resistance. (Old: 20%)
Glyph of Deep Freeze *new* -- Increases the range of Deep Freeze by 10 yards.
Glyph of Living Bomb *new* -- The periodic damage from your Living Bomb can now be critical strikes.
Glyph of Arcane Barrage *new* -- Reduces the mana cost of Arcane Barrage by 20%.
Glyph of Mirror Image *new* -- Your Mirror Images gain the Winter's Chill talent, granting their Frostbolt spell a 100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance spells will critically hit the target by 1% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
Glyph of Ice Barrier *new* -- Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your Ice Barrier by 30%

From what ive seen the most interesting one is LB looks like this is the one to replace the IS Glyph.

most warlocks is demo/destro-fire atm, this might change though as warlocks get revamped again it seems, so go bully leo! 5 scorches vs LB crit, not so sure, but also heard somewhere that'd frostfirebolt refreshed scorched?, might have been the fake patchnotes.

Spec Frostfire and provide a raid buff, five

here i thought arcane brilliance was a raidwide buff!

Edit for the current changes:

Fire

Living Bomb AOE damage has been greatly increased. Rank 3 now deals 680 Fire damage (up from 306) to all enemies within 10 yards.
Molten Armor now increases your critical strike rating by 35% of your spirit. (Up from 25%)
Improved Scorch now Increases your chance to critically hit with Scorch, Fireball and Frostfire Bolt by an additional 1/2/3%. (Old - Scorch only, 3/6/9%)

Frost

Ice Barrier now prevents spellcasting from being delayed by damage. (Old - prevented spells from interruption)
Winter's Chill now also Increases your chance to critically hit with Frostbolt by an additional 1/2/3%.

GLYPHS

Mage

Glyph of Molten Armor - Your Molten Armor grants an additional 20% (Up from 15%) of your spirit as critical strike rating.

Since it would seem (sofar atleast) that 3.2 won't bring many changes for mages, i thought i'd just put them in here. None of it is carved in stone, there may be changes still later.

Mages

* Arcane Blast: Mana cost reduced by 12%. ( )
* Invisibility: Can no longer be interrupted by a hostile action or damage done during the 3 second fade time, however an invisible mage can still be stunned or silenced. (mostly a pvp nerf, i reckon)
* Talents
o Fire
- Empowered Fire: In addition to its existing effects, this talent now also grants a 33/67/100% chance to regain 1% of base mana each time the Ignite talent deals damage. (more mana efficiency for fire spec too)

In addition to this, items which have mp5 on them get buffed by approximately 25%. Not exactly a mage change, but some items used by arcane mages have mp5.
So, as per usual, no major changes, mages are fine, l2p? Love the few changes they did make though! ^^

For 3.2.2 there's not many changes (at this point on the ptr, anyways) for us mages again.

- AB stacks up to 4 times
- Mana cost increase for AB stacking is 175%, down from 200%.

- Pyromaniac grants 3% general spell crit, not just fire spells. (though this may have been the case already, it's now fully updated in the armory and in-game stat panes)

Haven't fully checked out yet what other changes, affecting mages, there are; will update this once i have.

edit to un-edit the earlier edit, misread the date of ptr patchnotes.. month old and changed since -,-

For 3.3:

As always, it's not definate untill it goes live. However it seems Blizzard decided to give some raid utility to arcane spec too! In addition to increasing the damage of missiles and arcane blast, Arcane Empowerment will also increase all damage done by party and raid members by 1/2/3% for 10 sec. when the mage has scored a critical hit with missiles, ae or blast. (that'll be 100% uptime unless the mage is dead?)

Other than that, nothing new sofar, just a bug fix with some ranks of Flamestrike having a 3s cast instead of 2. Yup, we're fine. Still. ^^

Subeam wrote: However it seems Blizzard decided to give some raid utility to arcane spec too!

Paladins already provide that buff! Still no point to arcane! :p

No more reason to bring paladins, you mean

you mean besides the tanking, healing, blessings, etc

Ofcourse. And yes, in a 25man this isn't really the issue, but same goes for almost all (if not all) of raidbuffs/utilities, since it's shared by atleast 2 other classes nowadays. For 10mans, it's very handy though. I'm sure i've been in 10mans with no hunter and no ret pala. Frost and fire spec already had a (also not unique) raid utility besides table and AI, it's nice to see Arcane gets to have some raid utily too now.

@Ronab (or anyone else who knows retlol): What ability is it that rets use to apply the increased raid dmg buff? Is it something of a main ability regardless of the raidwide buff, for personal dps? And howlong does it last/what's the usual uptime? Same questions for the hunters btw, since they can also apply the same dmg buff for the raid. Would be nice to compare.

Subeam wrote:

@Ronab (or anyone else who knows retlol): What ability is it that rets use to apply the increased raid dmg buff? Is it something of a main ability regardless of the raidwide buff, for personal dps? And howlong does it last/what's the usual uptime?

Its active passivly to all friendlies within 40 yards of the paladin, as the paladin will be in melee range and most ranged dont dps from over 40 yards away, its essentially 100% uptime on all raid members without any concious thought to apply

Subeam wrote:Same questions for the hunters btw, since they can also apply the same dmg buff for the raid. Would be nice to compare.

Its all friendliys within 100 yards for a few seconds whenever the hunters pet crits, ofc the pet needs to be alive for this, though :<

Yeah, i inquired about it with Jonesy this evening aswell, he explained it's something that's always up anyways. But still, if the ret dies and the pet dies, or all melee are on a different mob > 40 yards away, it's handy to have!

Sofar, the new Tier setbonuses are looking good (after the update, which buffed both the 2set and the 4set bonus)! Hope they'll make it to live ^^

* 2 Pieces: Your Hot Streak, Missile Barrage, and Brain Freeze talents also grant you 12% haste for 5 seconds when the effect of the talent is consumed.
* 4 Pieces: Your Mirror Image ability also causes you to deal 18% additional damage for 30 seconds.

Warlocks can be happy, there's no need really for them to spec for imp. shadowbolt with a fire mage in the raid, as of next patch. Imp. Scorch has been changed into applying the 5% crit in 1 application (basically, the glyph as it is now), where the scorch glyph will increase it's damage by 20%.

Well here we are again :
taken off ptr notes i might add
Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator)

•Frostbolt: Spell power scaling on this spell has been increased by approximately 5%.

•Arcane Empowerment: This effect is now passive instead of being a proc off of critical strikes. The self damage buff remains unchanged.

•Incanter's Absorption: This talent now only grants additional spell power when damage is absorbed by Mana Shield, Frost Ward, Fire Ward, or Ice Barrier. The limit of 5% of the mage's health on the spell power buff has been removed

The incanters change made me cry a little