WoTLK Talent Calculator Changes To Mages, Shaman, and Paladins
Being at the beta stage of the development of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, the talent trees that were released are in no way final. Changes from minor tweaks to complete scrapping or adding of talents were expected to be made. Because of this, it’s really the best practice to reserve judgment of these talents for until the final versions come out. A few changes were made to the talents of Arcane Mages, Enhancement Shaman and Retribution Paladins, as listed by World of Raids. You can see the latest WoTLK talent tree calculators here.
Shaman: Enhancement
Maelstrom Weapon now makes any spell instant cast when stacked to 5, not just Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Lava Burst. New tooltip: When you critically hit with a melee weapon, you reduce the cast time of your next spell by 4/8/12/16/20%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 15 seconds.
Paladin: Retribution
Vindication now gives a 20% debuff for 2 talent points instead of 15% for 3. New tooltip: Gives the Paladin’s damaging attacks a chance to reduce the target’s attributes by 10/20% for 15 sec.
Pursuit of Justice reduced to 2 talent points. New tooltip: Reduces the chance you’ll be hit by spells by 1/2% and increases movement and mounted movement speed by 8/15%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects.
Mage: Arcane
Arcane Potency (tier 6) no longer requires 5 points in Arcane Concentration (tier 2), but 1 point in Presence of Mind.
Student of Mind (tier 9) moved to Tier 3.
Potent Spirit (tier 8) replaced with Mind Mastery. New tooltip: Increases spell damage by up to 5/10/15/20/25% of your total intellect.
Netherwind Presence (tier 10) moved to Tier 9 to replace Student of Mind. The talent has also been reworked to give 6% passive haste. New tooltip: Increases your spell haste by 2/4/6%.
Missile Barrage (tier 10) new talent to replace Netherwind Presence’s instant casts with faster Arcane Missiles. Tooltip: Gives your Arcane Barrage, Fireball, Frostbolt and Frostfire Bolt spells a 3/6/9/12/15% chance to reduce the channeled duration of the next Arcane Missiles spell to 1.5 secs and fire missiles every .3 sec.
New change still currently unlisted at World of Raids: The talent Arcane Impact has been renamed Spell Impact and now also affects Blast Wave, Fireblast, Cone of Cold, and Ice Lance in addition to Arcane Blast and Arcane Explosion.
As the talents continue to get tested we should continue to see more tweaks and changes here and there. I can’t wait to see if there are more cool changes to the classes and specs I play coming soon.
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