{"id":637,"date":"2010-07-31T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T23:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=637"},"modified":"2010-08-01T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T07:31:00","slug":"arcane-brilliance-fire-mage-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/arcane-brilliance-fire-mage-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcane Brilliance: Fire mage 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.wow.com\/media\/2010\/07\/critical-mass.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s Saturday, and that of course means it&#8217;s time again for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/Arcane-Brilliance\/\">Arcane Brilliance<\/a>, weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/mage\/\">mage<\/a> column, hero to the downtrodden, vanquisher of evil, dispenser of justice. That&#8217;s right. By day, Arcane Brilliance is a mild-mannered mage-related wall of text. But by night &#8230; Arcane Brilliance is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deathspank\">Deathspank<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another beta build hit a couple nights ago &#8212; as they tend to do &#8212; and it brought a number of class changes. A quick glance at the new talent trees revealed the expected (some talent position swaps, a few talents vanishing, some tooltip alterations, the occasional loss of a rank here and there) and the &#8230; unexpected. Three changes in the fire tree, particularly, caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cata.wowhead.com\/spell=11368\">Critical Mass<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cata.wowhead.com\/spell=13043\">Molten Shields<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cata.wowhead.com\/spell=12357\">Impact<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, the tooltip for Molten Shields really is &#8220;Redesign!&#8221; With an exclamation point. For emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>So clearly the fire tree is in a certain amount of flux? I became instantly excited. The fire tree, perhaps more than either of the other two trees, really has been due for some focused attention. Then I saw this, from none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowwiki.com\/Kalgan\">Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2010\/07\/31\/arcane-brilliance-fire-mage-4-0\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Arcane Brilliance: Fire mage 4.0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/mage\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/analysis-opinion\/\" rel=\"tag\">Analysis \/ Opinion<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/arcane-brilliance\/\" rel=\"tag\">(Mage) Arcane Brilliance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/category\/cataclysm\/\" rel=\"tag\">Cataclysm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\/2010\/07\/31\/arcane-brilliance-fire-mage-4-0\/\">Arcane Brilliance: Fire mage 4.0<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow.com\">WoW.com<\/a> on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EST.  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That&#8217;s right. By day, Arcane Brilliance is a mild-mannered mage-related wall of text. But by night &#8230; Arcane Brilliance is Deathspank. Another beta build hit a couple nights ago &#8212; as they tend to do &#8212; and it brought a number of class changes. 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