I’ve been taking a few tentative steps into the Public Test Realm (PvE) over the last few days, trying out the new changes to magi (I was recently informed that “mages” is incorrect) and seeing how the alterations to the arcane tree would pan out.
The verdict: It’s kind of awesome. I’ve been toying with a 51/10/0 tree at the moment, but since it’s the PTR, and money doesn’t matter, I’ll undoubtedly respec another 15 times. My thoughts:
- Slow is amazing
- Arcane Fortitude makes a noticeable difference
- Improved Blink is good enough to be nerfed before the patch comes out
- Mana Shield – I have yet to fully test this (I always feel guilty for spending too much time in the PTR, as the changes made have no real impact on my chars)
- I seem to be doing more damage with this spec. I’ll have to analyze Recount to be sure, but it seems to be taking less time to kill stuff.
- This could be a nice PvP spec.
I’ve done a little testing with my Priest, but I feel there is less to play around with there. I either spec her Shadow (for my enjoyment) with a little Disc. thrown in there, or 25/36/0 for some healing (for my guild). It’s nothing that groundbreaking.
I’m sending my little ‘Lock in there next to see about a switch to Affliction (from Demonology). This could be necessary, especially if the rumoured changes to pet scaling are implemented.
