I have to say, there’s an awful lot in the just-announced mages?
Here’s the short list of specific things we need to be aware of:
- Stamina - Like all clothies, we’ll be seeing a bunch more of it on our gear. The aim is to have our max health be similar to that of plate-wearing classes.
- Spirit - We won’t need it anymore. It’ll be a healer-only stat, and we’ll be getting our mana regen some other way. In other news, there is a God.
- Intellect - Now grants spellpower, but will provide less mana than it does now. I assume this is to balance out our mana pools with all that extra intellect we’ll be seeing on all our gear.
- Spellpower - Gone from most gear, the only place we’ll now be seing straight-up spellpower that isn’t tied directly to intellect will be on weapons, and only to distinguish caster weapons from melee weapons.
- Haste - Still around.
- Critical Strike Rating - Still around.
- MP5 - Gone.
- Spell Ranks - Gone. Every spell will now have only one rank and will scale with level. The levels at which we learn many of them will change, to fill in the gaps.
- Mastery - New stat that will be tied directly to your talents. Supposedly, no matter your spec or class, getting more of this will always, always make you better at whatever it is that you’re best at. For me, this means getting more mastery will make my mage incrementally better at making fun of warlocks.
- Existing gear - All of it will change to reflect this new statistical system, but we’re being assured that the gear we have now will still be good for us. I have concerns about this, though.
Brief (as brief as you’re going to get with me, anyway) analysis after the break.
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