Mage changes

https://www.wowhead.com/news/upcoming-mage-talent-tree-changes-in-dragonflight-328465

  • Reflection – Teleports you back to where you last Blinked. Only usable within 8 seconds of Blinking, 45 second cooldown.

  • Energized Barriers – When your barrier receives melee attacks, you have a 10% chance to be granted 1 Fire Blast/1 Fingers of Frost/1 Clearcasting charge. Casting your barrier removes all snare effects.

This seems a bit….much

Honestly with the melee mobility creep this is fine. Rather have mages be squishier and more slippery than being tanks.

Seems fine to me. It’s not like they’re taking a passive 30% damage reduction or just unkillable machines so far.

Not many snare effects tbh.

Yeah but the specs that need them really need them. Enh and ret come to mind.

Unless im mistaken Ret does not have a snare/root.

Druid, Shaman, Mage, Warrior have snares.

Ret has a long cd snare. I don’t remember the name of it rn but they definitely do.

In shadowlands there is no such spell. There was way back in the day but the current CC list for paladin is Repentance(sap/Incap), Blinding Light(blind), Hand of Hindrance (SLOW), and Hammer of Justice(stun).

In Dragonflight’s talents i did not see any snare effects for ret or any paladin.

70% slow. It’s pretty good for catching casters.

Still isnt a snare.

A snare is a slow, you’re thinking of roots

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What’s their obsession with mages having god tier instantaneous position changing

I would like to point out mages will always be the best class at least one season an expac.

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Wrong but with confidence

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Because Mages are supposed to kite as a defensive. And losing Displacement really killed Arcane going in to Shadowlands so I’m glad it’s back.

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no one wants mage to be good. everyone traumatized for life by rmp :smiling_face_with_tear:

I actually think this is really cool

Snare removal could be too OP potentially, but I like them getting some damage from hitting into barriers but they can also get shut down by it getting purged