WORLD OF WARCRAFT: FOREVER · TALENT TREES
Mage Talents
Every talent compared with Classic: gold border = new, blue = changed, purple = moved, grey = unchanged. Click a talent for rank-by-rank tooltips and the Classic text.
Mages are the most conservative rework: six new talents, and every capstone — Arcane Power, Combustion, Ice Barrier — is the Classic one. What is new is the connective tissue: Arcane Blast and Missile Barrage in Arcane, Hot Streak in Fire, Ice Lance and Fingers of Frost in Frost. The trainable Frostfire Bolt is both Fire and Frost, and four talents reference it.
One Tier 1 set, Manaflare Regalia, shared by all specs; its 5-piece pushes Frostfire Bolt into all three trees' procs — a 10% higher Missile Barrage chance, 10% higher crit while Combustion is active, 10% higher Fingers of Frost chance. Orc Mages are new on the beta roster.
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1New talents 6 · not in Classic
Arcane 3
Increases the range of your Arcane spells by 3 yards.
Blasts the target with energy, dealing 57 to 65 Arcane damage. Each time you cast Arcane Blast, the damage of all your other spells is increased by 10% and the mana cost of Arcane Blast is increased by 175%. Effect stacks up to 4 times and lasts 8 sec or until any other damage spell is cast.
Gives your Arcane Blast spell a 40% chance, and your Fireball, Frostbolt, and Frostfire Bolt spells a 20% chance to reduce the channeled duration of your next Arcane Missiles spell by 50%, reduce the Mana cost by 100%, and missiles fire every 0.5 sec.
Fire 1
Your non-periodic critical strikes with Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, Fire Blast, and Scorch grant Hot Streak for 15 sec. Hot Streak reduces the cast time of Pyroblast by 25%, stacking up to 3 times.
Frost 2
Deals 28 to 32 Frost damage to an enemy target. Deals 300% increased damage to Frozen targets.
Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect, which treats your next 1 spell cast as if the target were Frozen. Lasts 15 sec.
Capstones row 7 · 30 points
For the next 15 sec, your spells deal 30% more damage while costing 30% more mana to cast.
When activated, this spell causes each of your Fire damage spell hits to increase your critical strike chance with Fire damage spells by 10%. This effect lasts until you have caused 4 non-periodic critical strikes with Fire spells.
Instantly shields you, absorbing 447 damage. Lasts 1 min. While the shield holds, your spellcasts will not be interrupted or delayed from taking damage.
Baseline ability changes trainable · 2
New little ability: decipher an untranslated scroll. Seen on a Skyborne Mage.
A bolt that is both Fire and Frost. Four talents mention it.
Who can play a Mage 6 races · gold = new combo · click for racials
Tier 1 sets Mount Hyjal · 1 set
Row 1 needs 0 points · each row unlocks per 5 points · row 7 = the 30-point capstone · some rank values are estimates until launch
Data source (CC BY 4.0), read from the WoW: Forever beta client 1.60.1. · source · Chinese names are provisional