So I was pursuing the warcraft forums late and I came across the Q & A interview with Ghostcrawler talking about the current state of the mage in Wrath, I have to say I was more or less disappointed with the answers given and in some cases more than a bit pissed off at the almost reflex GM response “delete your UI and re-roll a warlock” answers. You can read the full article on the warcraft forums here if you like but I’m going to cherry-pick a few specific statements by Ghostcrawler to comment on.

How one man can use so many words to say so little is amazing. Lets look at this statement shall we, first he says we use to be called the Master of AoE damage, then he goes on to say “that’s not a great niche”. A scant sentence latter we have “Now we try and give AoE tools to all damage-dealing specializations (specs), though we always make extra effort to make sure mages stay good in that department”. So he admits its not a good idea but then goes on to say were promoting it anyway because that’s what mages do baby, we AoE shit!