Test Realm Patch Notes are upFollow

- Added a new rank of "Ice Barrier" to mage trainers.
- "Arcane Brilliance", rank 1, is now available from trainers.
- "Arcane Brilliance": Rank 2 of this ability now has the same range
as rank 1.
- "Arcane Missiles": Rank 3-11 will now consistently pulse 5 shots of
arcane damage.
- "Arcane Missiles": This spell is now affected by "Spell Haste".
- "Arcane Missiles": This spell will now obey line of sight
restrictions during its entire casting.
- "Arctic Winds" (Frost Talent) now also increases all Frost damage
caused by 1-5%.
- "Cold Snap": The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate it only resets
cooldowns caused by "Frost spells". e.g.: "Cold Snap" will not reset
the cooldown caused by "Dragon's Breath".
- "Conjure Mana Emerald": This spell now triggers a global cooldown as
intended.
- "Counterspell" duration reduced to 8 seconds, and the cooldown reduced to
24 seconds.
- Fixed some data errors that caused "Arcane Blast", "Ice Lance" and
"Molten Armor" to generate more threat than intended.
- "Frostbite" effect is now subject to diminishing returns in PvP.
- "Frostbolt": Damage on rank 12 has been increased slightly to ensure
it did more damage than rank 11 at all levels.
- "Ice Armor": Rank 5 will now still trigger when all
damage received is prevented by a damage shield, such as "Mana
Shield".
- "Ice Block": This ability no longer makes mages immune to "Weakened
Soul" from "Power Word: Shield". However, using this ability now
causes "Hypothermia", making the mage unable to cast "Ice Block"
again for 30 sec.
- "Improved Fire Ward": This talent will now work correctly with rank
6 of "Fire Ward".
- "Invisibility": Clarified the tooltip on this ability to indicate
any action breaks the invisibility affect.
- "Molten Armor": This ability will no longer be triggered erroneously
by some non-melee attacks, such as "Feral Faerie Fire". It will also
no longer break crowd controlling affects such as "Polymorph".
- "Spell Steal": Stolen buffs that affect specific spells from the
original target's class will no longer have any effect for the mage.
- The "Arcane Blast" debuff can no longer be dispelled.
- "Water Elemental": This pet will now come into the game with full
health and mana, including that gained from a percentage of its
master's stamina and intellect.

"Arctic Winds" (Frost Talent) now also increases all Frost damage
caused by 1-5%.

Full frost is good if you have the spellpower for it, otherwise it looks like 40 into Arcane is better than deep. According to our resident 40/0/21. He seems to do pretty good against me though, usually right behind me or so.

Edited, Apr 13th 2007 1:52am by MYteddy

I hope you are all as outraged as I am.

I also hope nobody takes that last sentence seriously.

I can't see the patch notes for some reason >.<

"Arcane Brilliance", rank 1, is now available from trainers.

Scenario:

Mage summons elemental, iceblocks. Rogue vanishes.

Coldsnap, repeat. Rogue vanishes again.

At that point the rogue shouldn't have a problem.

Weakened Soul" from "Power Word: Shield"

Dungeons and Raids
"Polymorph" spell duration has been changed from 20 seconds to 8 seconds.

This sucks...

Is this for mages or mobs CCing us? If for Mages we are going to spend more time performing CC than DPS.

General
Chance to break crowd control from damage: The increased chance for a spell to break from taking a critical strike has been removed. Instead, all targets over level 60 have a slightly larger chance to break out of crowd-controlling effects when they take damage.