Arcane Brilliance: A preliminary look at the Pandaria talent tree for mages

Posted by on 10 29th, 2011

Categories: Featured Articles | no responses

Ultimate Guide Guarantee: "...within seconds of accepting a quest you will
know WHERE to go, HOW to complete it, and WHEN to do it." Click Here For Proof!

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Arcane Brilliance for arcane , fire and frost mages. This week, we engage in wild, baseless speculation and make hasty, groundless assumptions based on that wild, baseless speculation. So … just like every week. A quick recap for those of you who have limited internet access and choose (understandably) to use each of your precious online moments reading this column each week, but otherwise ignore the internet completely: Blizzard announced a new expansion for World of Warcraft . It has pandas. The WoW online community appears to be simultaneously overjoyed, mildly excited, meh, and borderline suicidal. Monks are the new class, and they will be able to tank while drunk, which makes them pretty much identical to every other tank I know. Most importantly, though, the design team plans to throw our current talent system into a virtual wood-chipper, pick up the pieces that come out of the other side, and mash them together into a completely new singular talent tree for each class. The three distinct mage trees will survive, but the majority of the school-specific talents and spells we have now are slated to become baseline abilities that we’ll gain as we level (automatically, no more going to a mage trainer). Ability customization once Mists of Pandaria hits will exist as six talent choices available regardless of spec, one choice between three talents every 15 experience levels. Talent specs as we have known them since the game began in 2004 will cease to exist once patch 5.0 hits, and I expect that to occur in less than a year. Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: A preliminary look at the Pandaria talent tree for mages Filed under: Mage , Analysis / Opinion , (Mage) Arcane Brilliance , Mists of Pandaria Arcane Brilliance: A preliminary look at the Pandaria talent tree for mages originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read