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Fire mages are ablaze with joy over today's patch 3.3 PTR build, frost mages are a little iffy, and arcane is... pretty much completely untouched! Let's skip over any additional preamble and dig right in. Do note, however, that some of this is so far unconfirmed and comes from datamining. Considering these changes come from the PTR, any of it could change before patch 3.3 goes live.Fire

Improved Scorch: The debuff from this talent no longer stacks, and instead can apply the full effect from a single cast of Scorch.
Glyph of Improved Scorch now increases the damage of your Scorch spell by 20%.

This is going to make a lot of raiding mages very happy. It essentially normalizes the debuff to match equivalent debuffs, like Improved Shadow Bolt. Streamlining an unnecessarily complicated debuff is a great thing. It'll lift a needless burden from mage DPS. And yes, there are mages getting drunk in celebration this evening. It's somewhat disturbing, really.Continue reading Patch 3.3 PTR: Mages get simplified Scorch, Frost changesPatch 3.3 PTR: Mages get simplified Scorch, Frost changes originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

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