Well it says 'within 10 seconds' so I presume it's like a nightfall proc for warlocks in that if unused it will expire. It's a nice proc for sure but part of me just wants them to make pyroblast useful as a baseline spell.

The negative synergy between Hot Streak and Fiery Payback might need to be addressed though, realistically, I cna't see the small cooldown having much effect on the availability of Pyroblast to be cast.

It's possible to spec Hot Streak without having Pyroblast currently. Granted, there's no reason why you would, but they've usually added explicit dependences when there are implicit ones as well. Personally, the bigass arrow going down the talent pane would be as good a reason as any to make Pyroblast a trainable spell. The alternative is to make it a general or fire-specific PoM, although restricting it to Pyro does mean that you wouldn't waste it on Fireballs.

- Clearcasting / Presence of Mind only gives +30% crit rate on the first spell cast. The spell crit rate increase is lost after the first cast even if Clearcast and Presence of Mind is still active. There's a new buff while CC/PoM is active "Arcane Potency: 30% increased spell criticial strike chance".


Glyphs from build 8885:

Mage (Skills List / Talent Calc. (8885))

* Glyph of Arcane Intellect -- Reduce the mana cost of your Arcane Intellect and Arcane Brilliance spells by 50%.
* Glyph of Slow Fall -- Your Slow Fall spell no longer requires a reagent.
* Glyph of Fire Ward -- You have an additional 5% chance to reflect Fire spells while your Fire Ward is active.
* Glyph of Frost Ward -- You have an additional 5% chance to reflect Frost spells while your Frost Ward is active.
* Glyph of Ice Armor -- Increases the duration of your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 30 min.

To be honest, Deep Fire's casting variety is perhaps getting a little too dynamic. Scorch, Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, Living Bomb, Pyroblast, Focus Magic if you go that route, that's a lot of spells to balance. It's going to be interesting see what rotations will look like. I'm looking forward to it, but it could be messy, as well.

Also, Blizzard certainly seems to be pushing crit as a very valuable stat for fire mages in particular. Is there going to be a paradigm shift away from Haste towards Crit?

I'm not gonna say the previous iteration wasn't overpowered, but this seems like too much of a nerf to me. Now a full duration WE returns 7.2% mana back. This barely covers the casting cost . . . Sure it still benefits group members, but I'm thinking .5/1/1.5 wouldn't be out of order.

As a PvE talent you can probably justify the 3 points simply by the extended duration alone, but as a PvP talent the mana return would be quite important. I'd like to see a fine line somehow drawn between "You must now spec frost in order to raid becuase our healers are running out of mana" and "This talent is is only for raiders cause it increases your sustained dps by a trivial amount without providing much else".

Also Leatherworking changes:

* Fur Lining - Stamina - "Permanently enchant bracers to increase stamina by 90. Can only be used on the leatherworker's bracers, and doing so will cause them to become soulbound."
* Fur Lining - Spell Damage - "Permanently enchant bracers to increase spell power by 70. Can only be used on the leatherworker's bracers, and doing so will cause them to become soulbound."
* Fur Lining - Fire Resist - "Permanently enchant bracers to increase your fire resistance by 60. Can only be used on the leatherworker's bracers, and doing so will cause them to become soulbound."
* Fur Lining - Attack Power - "Permanently enchant bracers to increase attack power by 120. Can only be used on the leatherworker's bracers, and doing so will cause them to become soulbound."

Too dynamic? Hell it's good enough to have dynamic as Deep Fire... It's not that Fireball spam wasn't boring. ;-)
I like the Hot Streak change, finally we get some reason to cast Pyros in Raids; it will be much more fun.

And yet, if you only have one frost mage in the group, it's going to be a dps improvement most likely . . . I can certainly see both sides to this. For one thing, I'm fairly certain 2 guarenteed shattered spells is far better from a PvP point of view
but it does certainly tend to detract from a "fun" aspect and also the "5 frost mages in one raid synnergy" aspect of having it the other way.

Oh, no, I'm not talking about the original debuff version with the crazy stacked frost mage synergy. I'm talking about the most recent version, which was a 4-second personal buff, no charge limit -- enough time to complete your Frostbolt cast, cast a second one, and follow up with an Ice Lance or a deep Freeze, if you had a little haste. Added some interactivity, had to select spells based on haste and cooldown, and it made Deep Freeze part of the DPS process against a boss, just as Living Bomb will be for Fire Mages.

All gone now, I'm afraid.

Aww, no more hot streak awesomeness. FoF at 2 casts is pretty mindless. It's like one step forward, one step backwards with each patch. Spamming a macro that frostbolts unless you've got a BF proc up doesn't seem like much fun. I'm super opposed to making Pyroblast again dependent on a gimmick to be castable. Three gimmicks now for the spell to be usable? Why not just make it usable normally?

Also, the whole pushing crit as a stat thing is really messy with how resilience works. Ignite remains tripple taxed. A talent like Hot Streak performs radically (haha) different in PvP versus PvE based on crit chance differential. (To the point it can almost not proc in PvP) Talents like Hot Streak and their dependency on crits generates huge variance in DPS which is frustrating both on the PvE and PvP side of things. (Resilience is after all designed to reduce variance in damage and do you really want 15% swings in how much damage you do per attempt?) Wouldn't a talent like Cold Streak (makes your next blahblah instant after 2 noncriticals) make more sense from a gameplay perspective? (You'd see less spikey damage)

That's very interesting indeed. Thanks for the info.

Doesn't it seem kind of goofy, though, that you'd buy a glyph to put on your Ice Armor to save a single cast?

Glyph lasts 1 hour, glyph makes Ice Armor last 1 hour. Buy a glyph to save 930 mana?