Coming Soon: Changes for mages

[Lissa]

If development of WoW were handled "we gave this class something so we have to give all the other classes something like it" the game would be unplayably bad.

1) Mana has always been a very significant issue for mages in both PvE and PvP. Mages were extremely dependent on shadow priests in the raiding game.

2) Iceblock from talent --> trained ability isn't going to change much. The good PvP mages will still be frost. The other builds will be a little less glass cannon, but will still lack PvP utility. Overall little to no impact on the PvE aspect of the game.

It's hard to be too negative about the changes, they really do fill significant holes. Unless, of course, you just like to whine for the sake of whining.

The point is, it's a frivalous change to give Ice Block to all mages. You yourself said it, it doesn't help mages in any serious way. As such, it should be left alone, it doesn't fill an adequate change. I won't argue the issue involving the mana gems because I can see the issue, but I will say that Mages get their way far more often than any other class in WoW. IMO, frivalous changes like Ice Block should not be made and it seems that the whining and crying that non-frost mages made on the WoW forums is where you should really direct your whining charge.

And Klaus, Mages are among that list of powerful classes, yet Blizzard continues to cater to them while doing nothing for those other powerful classes. And if you look at the DPS charts, you'll see that Mages are right up there at the top on DPS. If they were not doing so well, I could see boosts being handed out, but in the case of Ice Block, you have a talent that is being given as a class skill frivalously.