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Arcane Blast has a ton of DPS now, almost at the level of a Molten Fury Fireball. The DPM on both it and Arcane Missiles are still a bit too low to make it a primary nuke at this point though. The DPS on Arcane Missiles also doesn't compare favorably to a mage's favorite bolt spell (Fireball or Frostbolt). It is very low threat though, which might be important. Arcane Missiles or the Arcane tree in general also suffers from a lack of talents buffing jst Arcane. There are three talent points for Arcane Missiles and three for Arcane Blast. Improved Arcane Missiles is still a poor talent while not leveling (encounter dependent) and Arcane Focus is taken as filler by 90% of the mages anyways. Pure Arcane also suffers greatly in that it doesn't gain any bonus from Heroism/Blood Lust.
Arcane Blast is fulfilling its role though, a really high-DPS nuke that drains mana like crazy. I'd like it a lot more if it went down to instant-cast though when it was powered up. In terms of DPS it would stay the same, but it would become very interesting in PvP and allow some fun in PvE encounters. As it is now, it would probably be useful for a standard Frost build that has mana to burn near the end of an encounter or just before popping Evocation in the middle of the encounter. Fire would stick to Fireball and Molten Fury.
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