I noticed a few changes to Frost in 3.3, mainly the glyph that allows your Water Elemental to become permanent. I’m *hoping* this means Frost will be viable in 3.3, but we’ll see. It seems like it could be a lot of fun to try, but it doesn’t solve the problem of a very monotonous spell rotation. If they can fix that, I have a feeling that Frost could be a lot of fun in future raiding, especially since there’s that 1% of health every so often taken as damage debuff in Icecrown, at least on the PTR.
Another cool change that I noticed was the Ferocious Inspiration being spread out to Arcane mages – this gives mages another reason to go Arcane, in that it gives the raid a nice 3% damage buff. I foresee this being a pretty big deal in T10 content, especially since it looks like Beast Mastery hunters still aren’t gonna be really great DPS.
Lastly, the long-awaited Scorch change – finally, fire mages can do the same thing that locks can do, and apply their entire Scorch stack in one cast, unglyphed – meaning that any mages that still were using Scorch glyph for the raid can reglyph to something with a true DPS boost. What with Arcane’s 3% raid damage, Fire’s crit buff, and Frost’s replenishment, we may be seeing multiple specs of mages being useful in raids in 3.3, which would be very, very cool.
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