World of Warcraft

Talent Calculator Update: Mage, Paladin, Shaman

The official Wrath of the Lich King talent calculators have been updated!

While most of the changes are tooltip clarifications and new icons for the placeholders, there are a few bigger changes as well:

  • Enhancement Shaman's Maelstrom Weapon now makes any spell instant cast when stacked to 5, not just Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Lava Burst. New tooltip: When you critically hit with a melee weapon, you reduce the cast time of your next spell by 4/8/12/16/20%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 15 seconds. (talent location)
  • Retribution Paladin
    • Improved Blessing of Might buffed: Increases the attack power bonus of your Blessing of Might by 10/20/30/40/50%. (talent location)
    • Vindication now gives a 20% debuff for 2 talent points instead of 15% for 3. New tooltip: Gives the Paladin's damaging attacks a chance to reduce the target's attributes by 10/20% for 15 sec. (talent location)
    • Pursuit of Justice reduced to 2 talent points. New tooltip: Reduces the chance you'll be hit by spells by 1/2% and increases movement and mounted movement speed by 8/15%. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects. (talent location)
  • Arcane Mage
    • Arcane Impact (tier 3) changed to Spell Impact proccing off many more spells. Tooltip: Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane Explosion, ArcaneBlast, Blast Wave, Fire Blast, Ice Lance, Cone of Cold spells by an additional 2/4/6%.
    • Arcane Potency (tier 6) no longer requires 5 points in Arcane Concentration (tier 2), but 1 point in Presence of Mind.
    • Student of Mind (tier 9) moved to Tier 3.
    • Potent Spirit (tier 8) replaced with Mind Mastery. New tooltip: Increases spell damage by up to 5/10/15/20/25% of your total intellect.
    • Netherwind Presence (tier 10) moved to Tier 9 to replace Student of Mind. The talent has also been reworked to give 6% passive haste. New tooltip: Increases your spell haste by 2/4/6%.
    • Missile Barrage (tier 10) new talent to replace Netherwind Presence's instant casts with faster Arcane Missiles. Tooltip: Gives your Arcane Barrage, Fireball, Frostbolt and Frostfire Bolt spells a 3/6/9/12/15% chance to reduce the channeled duration of the next Arcane Missiles spell to 1.5 secs and fire missiles every .3 sec. (talent locations)

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  • am45x said 
    Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:45 PM ()

    interesting

  • Elfang said 
    Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:45 PM ()

    nerf plx! dont buff

  • JewDew4 said 
    Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:45 PM ()

    "Enhancement Shaman's Maelstrom Weapon now makes any spell instant cast when stacked to 5" <-- Theres a minor mistake here .
    As fare as I can calculate , 20% of the casting time doesnt make the spell instant ?
    - Or am I just wrong ?

    The news is right after that , but Instant cast is a major writing mistake !

  • northman said 
    Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:45 PM ()

    Real thing is after 5 stack you get instant cast of ANY spells(healing, chain lightning etc). Before was ONLY dmg spell or ONLY healing spells not sure.

  • JewDew4 said 
    Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:45 PM ()

    You wont get a instant cast by reducing a spells cast time with 20%

    - Read the damn talent tooltip on the official site !

  • JewDew4 said 
    Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:45 PM ()

    As me being an idiot - I now understand how I miss read the tooltip =)

    sorry about that .

    me fail =(

  • zerander said 
    Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:45 PM ()

    good stuff

  • zebraf1 said 
    Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:45 PM ()

    You can put 5pts in it making it 20% faster cast with each stack. Stacks up to 5 times, so then you have 100% speed and instant cast.
    I just wonder if it really works with all spells or just like Nature's swiftness up to 10 sec base cast. 15 seconds to get out of combat and insta ress someone in arena :P... I hope not (I'm resto)

  • Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:45 PM ()

    add an icy veins to the equation...sexy

    ap,sheep, pyro, pom, pyro, fire blast, enjoy your run......

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