Arcane Brilliance: PvPing as an Arcane Mage after 3.1

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Filed under: Mage , Analysis / Opinion , Tips , PvP , Features , Guides , Classes , Talents , Buffs , (Mage) Arcane Brilliance , Battlegrounds , Arena Each week Arcane Brilliance comes to work totally motivated, ready to sit down and manufacture a fantastic, insightful, entertaining column about Mages . Then Arcane Brilliance’s wife brings him breakfast, because she’s awesome like that, and Arcane Brilliance takes a break to eat it. Fat and happy, Arcane Brilliance flexes its fingers and gets ready to resume the creative process. Then winamp shuffles through to a song from the new Silversun Pickups album and Arcane Brilliance gets distracted again, and has to listen to the whole album before it can concentrate. Then Arcane Brilliance’s kids come in the room and Arcane Brilliance plays with them for awhile. Lunch approaches, and Arcane Brilliance needs to get the column up. And, that, loyal readers, is a preemptive apology for any inaccuracy, inconsistency, misspelling, and grammatical eror that may follow this opening paragraph. Sorry! Before we begin, let’s get a couple items out of the way. First: In case you haven’t gotten it yet, or weren’t aware, today is your last day to obtain Polymorph: Rabbit , at least during this calendar year. This is purchasable from the Noblegarden vendors for the low, low price of 100 Noblegarden Chocolates (it’s only visible on the vendor if you’re a Mage), which shouldn’t take very long to obtain if you put your mind to it. Noblegarden ends tonight at 11:59pm server time, so even if you have no interest in the rest of the holiday, don’t miss out on this little Mage-only perk. Second: Mirror Images aren’t stupid anymore! Yes, when the PTR for patch 3.1.2 went live, the patch notes included one tiny note for Mages, but what a note it was. Your Mirror Images will now attack only the target that you’ve generated the most hate from, instead of targeting whatever shiny object happens across their fields of vision first. In addition, they’ll no longer break CCs whenever they feel like it. I’ve tested this out a bit, and I’m happy to report that it seems to be working as advertised. Rejoice, my fellow Mages: our copies are no longer ham-fisted, drooling, mouth-breathers. I’m giddy. And with the news and notes out of the way, we are free to move on to this week’s topic: PvPing as an Arcane Mage. Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: PvPing as an Arcane Mage after 3.1 Arcane Brilliance: PvPing as an Arcane Mage after 3.1 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 02 May 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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