Will Blizzard & Arcane Explosion spell proc Clearcasting off a mob or off the cast?
Retail was off a mob. So Aoe Farming Clearcasting was up all the time when pulling 20 or so mobs. Think it changed later on to off each cast. Will Make the game very different depending on which way you go.
Whatever the mechanic was in 1.12 is how it will work.
If they really don’t change ANYTHING mages will be the Gold GODS of each server. BRD Farming DM North Farming. And i’m ok with that.
And rogues will be the gank gods. Warriors will be the tank gods.
Every class has something special in vanilla.
If they don’t Change anything. Warriors and Rogues are only good dps till AQ then only Mages are added to that with 1 SP and a few locks. All other Classes and specs are left in the dust and no guild will want them.
Bank gods, gank gods and tank gods. ![:laughing:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/laughing.png?v=6" ":laughing:")
This is wrong though. Fury Warriors are plenty good, especially in Naxx.
The videos I’ve seen where mages were using AE or Blizzard didn’t have constant uptime of clearcasting. I’m going to assume, from that, that it’s either per cast or has diminishing returns when AoEing.
Some private servers nerf Clearcasting to per cast instead of per mob so it deters gold farming, so if you have seen those videos, you may have been misled.
The videos I saw were from early 2007 and earlier and done in the typical 3:4 ratio. If they’re from pservers they’re from very early pservers.
Is from 2006. He gains clearcasting twice from what I’ve seen during the entire pull, both times from frost nova. During all of his blizzards, he never gains clearcasting.
Another from 2006, here he uses rank 1 AE and I see clearcasting pop up around the 2 min mark and again about 30 seconds later but not frequently enough to be a per mob chance.
If u hit a target, doesn’t matter how manny u hit.
All these alarmists… Vanilla was like that before and the world did not come crashing down, it will survive it again.
I think Clearcasting was always a % chance on cast. I don’t think it was ever a chance per mob.
If it was chance per mob mages would never run out of mana when AOEing large groups. And that definitely was NOT the case ever back in Vanilla. Mana was always a very real issue.
The only effect I can recall that was by mob and not by cast was the Lightning Capacitor Trinket in TBC before it was nerfed. That trinket made it so each time you hit a mob you gained a charge and at 4 charges you fired off a lightning bolt at a random mob.
Pre-nerf if you AOE’d a large group with arcane explosion you’d see multiple lightning bolts fly off with every cast. It was awesome!
Trust me it was per mob chance per proc. Just no one ever spec’d into Clearcasting because of PVP back in Vanilla. Everyone wanted they’re Abilities to sometimes frost nova targets. “If you can Chill it, you can kill it” was the Motto.
Gonna spec clearcasting to aoe farm, this would be useful information.
I posted 2 videos earlier that clearly show the mage has clearcasting but is not getting enough procs for it to be “per mob”
I’m not sure that’s accurate.
I did a lot of AOE farming early in Vanilla while leveling up and I recall mana constantly being a problem. I had to sit and drink between every AOE pull, and I always took clearcasting as a talent.
IF what OP is saying is correct, mana should never have been an issue for AOEing mages. But that definitely wasn’t the case.
EVERY raiding mage in vanilla took clearcasting. You needed it for the extra mana. And also because, you needed at least 16 into arcane anyways to get evocation. Clearcasting was a no-brainer.
I think OP is just wrong and clearcasting in Vanilla was always per cast, not per target.
Trust me, it wasn’t. What idiot tier Mage doesn’t take clearcasting in PvP, by the way? Per your own logic it’d be perfect for group control in BGs and large group battles like TM/SS. This is the one thing most pservers consistently got wrong.
Elemental mage didn’t take clearcasting.
I could of sworn clearcasting proc’d from blizzards multiple hits.
But I could be wrong.