The best new mage idea you read all year

[Shammywhammy-draenor]

1 - Sorcerer (dps)

You master fire and ice, both schools amplify dmg taken by the other elements.
It’s all about big long fire dots and slowing and freezing enemies with aoe.
The most basic casual dps mage spec.
Cons: a bit slow and low crits, but reliable.

2 - Arcanist (dps)

You master the arcane arts. It’s all about speed and crits. Arcane missiles can now hit multiple targets like a shotgun and pop arcane explosions, fast, fun, high crits, speed addicts get pumped. Increased blink charges up to 6, but they cost mana now, modifiable with talents; reduce the cost and cooldown, increase charges and distance, add side effects, gain perks on kills etc. All about speed and fun.
Cons: everything is arcane school, avoid kicks at all cost, high skill cap.

3 - Wizard (support)

You are a support now, Harry.
Yes, it’s now a thing, deal with it. It’s not a healer or a tank, but support class.
Your magical powers are based on your wisdom and imagination.

Finally a mage spec that actually uses WANDS.
Many ranged wand abilities, frost barrage, wind up arcane aoe blasts, elementally charged randomly rotating strong base shots with earth, frost, nature, fire dmg. Channelled chain lightning style wand lasso as pure wand aoe.

This new spec allows you to support your team with powerful crowd control spells, buffs, debuffs and illusions. You can:

• Summon magical creatures with offensive/protective auras

• Conjure ethereal minions to deal dmg, fast melee slams or ranged barrage bursts

• Cast huge instant areas with low cd to snare, cc, silence, stun enemies

• Lots of other utility spells similar to most other existing classes:

• vortexes to suck targets in

• stunning gravity spells

• telekinetic pushback waves like jedi force

• lifting up multiple targets and throwing them somewhere else

• casting huge aoe shields and walls to reduce dmg or briefly grant full immunity

• apply weaknesses that increase targets dmg taken 100-1000% with high/low duration

Cons: requires high multitasking, great foresight, knowledge of the game, classes, dungeons, pvp. Low solo dmg. Best played leveling by spamming dungeons or BGs.

This would be the most hyped and welcomed change ever, trust me.

[Icefall-hellfire (Icefall)]

I’m all for a damage spec that combined Frost and FIre, like launching a boiling water DoT effect instead of Fire/Ice at a target.

And I’m so into using magic as a suppport/semi damage/healer spec, stuff like stopping time to prevent damage, cauterizing or freezing wounds, or adding a burn/freeze/blast to allies’ attacks.

A nice mix of DoT/Hot/stoppage effects slowing/accelerating/freezing time would be ideal for Mage, it’s a shame that Evoker’s came along and basically stole everyone’s thunder.

[Minnji-eonar]

They have a spec that combine fire and ice though, ele shaman… actually really fun atm too.

[Kejadyr-kult-der-verdammten]

I appreciate your effort but I don’t think Blizzard will ever change mage in a meaningful way. Three ranged DPS specs, very much focused on the elements (*Arcane counts as one too since Chronicles I think). Some flavor spells like invisibility or mirror images and that’s basically it. Don’t expect more.

Would be nice if I was wrong though.