So it’s official [Living Bomb] is now the best spell ever (at least in 3.2), and why you may ask? Because now you can cast  it on more than one target at a time, though they have not yet updated the tooltip to reflect this yet.  Bear in mind this is only on the Public Test Realm and may never see the light of day. Personally I can’t see why it wouldn’t (though being a mage myself might be cause for bias).

Anyway something else occurred to me while I was reading though patch notes for 3.2. Remember we talked about the changes to Empowered Fire!

[Empowered Fire]: In addition to its existing effects, this talent now also grants a 33/67/100% chance to regain 2% of base mana each time the [Ignite] talent deals damage.

Now let’s put this together with the new  [Glyph of Living Bomb] which gives our Living Bomb tics a chance to crit and proc ignite which in turn would trigger the new Empowered Fire talent granting us mana back.  Now I’m not sure how well this is going to work but considering that you can put living bomb on multiple targets now and each tic on every target has a chance to crit and ignite this could be very interesting.

Today Blizzard unveiled the tier 9 set for mages. I can hardly contain my surprise at the stark use of the color purple and neon lighting. I guess if you have to paint a target it might as well glow in the dark huh? But in all seriousness I think I was more disappointed that the mage set is just a clone of the priest and warlock sets with *ahem* more purple. This also reminds me of a great youtube video

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We used to call the mage the master of AoE damage, but we’ve since decided that’s not a great niche for anyone. The “AoE class” feels mandatory in situations where you do have large crowds of enemies to contend with, but then the AoE class gets bored when everyone else is maximizing their single-target damage on a boss. Now we try and give AoE tools to all damage-dealing specializations (specs), though we will always make extra effort to make sure mages stay good in that department.

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