Title says it all.
I for one think it is totally going to happen, and that it is also totally unfair to do so.
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Even though Evokers are using Bronze Dragonflight time magic, this does not mean that other classes can no longer. Take Frost magic - it is not exclusive to Frost Mages, but also usable by Frost DKs. As a result, I think that Alter Time might not be transferred to Evokers and can be kept as part of Mage identity.
I doubt it…
… but then again, they did take Metamorphosis from Locks and give it to DHs.
I’m kinda disappointed, I’d always hoped we’d eventually get a healing spec involving time manipulation, cauterizing wounds and granting defensive barriers of ice. It seems that idea is going to straight to the Evokers, with a bit more variation.
Guess I’m gonna have an Evoker as my 2nd char in DF, goodbye Shaman.
Thank you ! !
Take it and give us Frost Comets (2p tier set) as a passive instead 
I don’t even have Alter Time on my bars lmao
More likely they will have a similar spell by a different name that reverts hp back so many seconds on a target or players in an AoE but it wouldn’t have the displacement effect. The talent trees look so massive I doubt there will be any pruning of spells.
I’m assuming you definitely don’t do PvP and your PvE history is limited to LFR, because its a very effective ability.
You are missing out.
I don’t pvp no, but I am an Aldimage. Only do keys up untill 20 and 4/11 Mythic 
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I just keep losing track of where I was when I use that ability and then end up dying lmao…
You should start using it just for a heal on things like the raging mob in DoS or when you get targeted by nukes in general. If you have to move, just end it early until you get more comfortable with it.
Even if we’re talking about Mages, don’t forget that they stole the demonic form from the Locks to give it to the DH.
I am waiting for the miracle of the devs, who give back the demonic form to the lock demo … even if I do not play lock, but it is a mandatory thing.
I hope so I’m too much of a smoothbrain to use it properly
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It’s an absolute baller ability.
Well, mages have lost pretty much everything already. They might as well delete the class. It plays horribly anyway.
Where is Deep Freeze, where is Blazing Speed, where is cone of cold, where is shatter, where is cold snap, where is MoP?
It is just sad. I want to play mage as my main but current design is just horrible beyond belief.
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Cone of cold and cold snap are still a thing though 
If you don´t understand that I meant for all specs I don´t know what to say really.
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Where is MoP ?
Or you mean PoM
Anyway,
Where is MoP indeed
I never enjoyed my mage as much as In Mists of Pandaria
Back then Alter Time also snapshotted buffs and procs 
WoD destroyed my main and haven’t recovered still 
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Agreed, WoD totally ruined mage and it has been crap and boring ever since. They literally removed half the toolkit in WoD and Legion. Such a shame.
MoP mage, especially fire was amazing, close to perfection.
I certainly meant MoP. Why in the world was the game so much better 8 years ago? WoW should be improving not regressing. All 3 specs play like crap and lack utility. Pvp toolkit consists primarily of poly and damage (and badly designed damage as well, deathborne, combustion, greater pyro and arcanosphere lol), precious little else.
Mage is the worst designed class in the game by a significant margin, not that the others are great either…
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100%
i actually play frost pve and it’s a disaster
you see Ice lance doing 50% of your damage and everything else splits the other 50%
this on its own is a sign of bad design.
MoP had lots of depth to the class
frostbolt used to hit like a truck
bombs were there
snapshotting trinket procs and buffs through a living bomb was a thing
deep freeze
alter time had both def and off usability
blazing speed
even the glyphed water elemental wasn’t a complete retard like the way it is right now (not that anyone plays Water ele in pve anyway)
etc etc
those were the days man !!
The whole class is a disaster right now.
MoP really was great. I don´t get the people that say mop classes were bad cause “everyone had everything”. In my mind classes had great depth with big toolkits but still felt very different from eachother. I mean, just look at the interactions between snapshotting, shatter, deep freeze and alter time - talk about synergy and engaging gameplay. Nah, we´ll just remove it all. Here, have fun spamming frostbolts as a giant skeleton, or pressing combust with 10 instants with no set up or play arcane and be the worst spec in the game, lolz. It´s such a shame what has become of this game. Almost every knowledgeable player recognizes how good mop was, especially in pvp.
I don´t get why BLizzard refuses to acknowledge this. Yes I think the talent trees were boring in MoP, but the classes as a whole were great. The new version of talent trees + the quality of class design like in MoP would be ideal.
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