WoW Forever Mage Guide: Talents, Leveling Gear and What Changed

Arcane: 6 new of 18 talents

• Improved Channeling (row 1, 5 ranks): Gives you a 100% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling Arcane Missiles and a 70% chance while casting Arcane Blast.
• Arcane Geometry (row 3, 2 ranks): Increases the range of your Arcane spells by 6 yards.
• Arcane Impact (row 3, 3 ranks): Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane spells by 6%.
• Arcane Blast (row 3, 1 rank): Blasts the target with energy, dealing 57 to 65 Arcane damage. Each time you cast Arcane Blast, the damage of all your other spells is increased by 10% and the mana cost of Arcane Blast is increased by 175%. Effect stacks up to 4 times and lasts 8 sec or until any other damage spell is cast.
• Arcane Shielding (row 4, 2 ranks): Decreases the Mana lost per point of damage taken when your Mana Shield spell is active by 33% and increases the resistances granted by your Mage Armor spell by 50%.
• Missile Barrage (row 4, 1 rank): Gives your Arcane Blast spell a 40% chance, and your Fireball, Frostbolt, and Frostfire Bolt spells a 20% chance to reduce the channeled duration of your next Arcane Missiles spell by 50%, reduce the Mana cost by 100%, and missiles fire every 0.5 sec.

No longer in the tree: Improved Arcane Missiles, Magic Attunement, Improved Arcane Explosion and Improved Mana Shield.

Fire: 3 new of 17 talents

• Wake of Fire (row 1, 2 ranks): Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 2 sec. Killing a non-trivial target increases the critical strike chance of your next Fire Blast cast within 30 sec by 50%.
• Incineration (row 1, 3 ranks): Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast, Ice Lance, Arcane Blast, and Scorch spells by 6%.
• Heating Up (row 4, 1 rank): Non-periodic critical strikes with Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, Fire Blast, and Scorch reduce the cast time of your next Pyroblast cast within 20 sec by 25%, stacking up to 3 times.

No longer in the tree: Improved Fire Blast and Incinerate.

Frost: 2 new of 19 talents

• Ice Lance (row 3, 1 rank): Deals 28 to 32 Frost damage to an enemy target. Deals 300% increased damage to Frozen targets.
• Fingers of Frost (row 5, 2 ranks): Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect, which treats your next 2 spells cast as if the target were Frozen. Lasts 15 sec.

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