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Hello. I'm starting a youtube channel that will host mage-related videos that follow the class's development in Mists Beta.

Things you can expect:

1. Short, to-the-point videos that offer concise info and action, without ten minutes of talking about every tiny detail that you can easily read up elsewhere
2. Some modicum of quality. I don't lag horribly. I don't jump around a million times. I don't do funky stuff with the camera or zoom waaaay back so you can't see anything.
3. Narration by none other than...Rammus?

So here's the trial run, a short movie on frost mages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xxppvGaRVg&feature=youtu.be

Arcane's done as well:

http://youtu.be/WxEiIFOFnB4

This is my first time creating a "community asset" like this, so let me know what you think - if there's anything that I can improve, or if I just suck terribly at this.

I'm about to look at the video now. I'm curious as to what to expect when Mists of Pandaria comes out.

Thanks! I appreciate the little look into what's happening over there. Stuff looks great!

It looks pretty good. Seems like Frost will be slightly more dynamic to play and I won't have to worry about banking Fingers of Frost charges anymore. As far as our Water Elemental goes, does it still have its Freeze ability, and will it proc Fingers of Frost charges?

CoC?

CoC what are you doing.

CoC you're a snare, stopping hitting so hard, you're no nuke.

lol Frost Bomb seems like it's going to catch a nerf, unless they are pushing the viability of pve frost. Multi-Lance seems fun new and interesting probably be a month before I hate it because I spammed it on a sheep or something.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

@Jackielynn - You'll actually want to still bank charges because they're great for mobile dps. The glyph of FoF increases your max charges to 3 as well, and since you no longer have to save FoF for deep freeze, it is very "affordable" save charges for movement or what-have-you. And yeah, water elemental functions almost exactly the same. Freeze still gives FoF on bosses, etc. The only change is there's a glyph for Bubbles that allows him to cast while moving and I believe, increases his health by 40%.

@Tryke - Of course they're pushing the viability of pve frost. They've been making efforts since halfway through Wrath. Why wouldn't they now?

And ehrm...yeah we'll have to see if glyphed IL starts causing problems with CC.

nice vid... i like it.

Haha, that was good commentary :D

CoC is sooooo not making it out of beta like it is right now. 40k crit what? per target huh?

Nice to see frosty isn't changing.

Holy crap both icelances benefit from 1 charge of FoF that's so good omg.

Frost orb looks kinda insane.

Ok.

"As you can see we have Frost Orb which makes Flame Orb look like a little !@#$%." XD

Thank you for making a brief, to the point video that shows off all the cool stuff and none of the stupid crap other people love to talk about for over 10 minutes.

/subscribed :D

Thanks for the feedback so far.

@Jackielynn - You'll actually want to still bank charges because they're great for mobile dps. The glyph of FoF increases your max charges to 3 as well, and since you no longer have to save FoF for deep freeze, it is very "affordable" save charges for movement or what-have-you. And yeah, water elemental functions almost exactly the same. Freeze still gives FoF on bosses, etc. The only change is there's a glyph for Bubbles that allows him to cast while moving and I believe, increases his health by 40%.

@Tryke - Of course they're pushing the viability of pve frost. They've been making efforts since halfway through Wrath. Why wouldn't they now?

And ehrm...yeah we'll have to see if glyphed IL starts causing problems with CC.

I see your point, especially since we can have three charges now instead of just two. I like those changes.

04/03/2012 05:30 PMPosted by Relaine

"As you can see we have Frost Orb which makes Flame Orb look like a little !@#$%."

That it does. That it does, Karrok.

Arcane mechanics video is up!

lol @ CoC. Reminds me of the vanilla days.

I'm glad I'm leveling a mage

Thanks for the feedback so far.

@Jackielynn - You'll actually want to still bank charges because they're great for mobile dps. The glyph of FoF increases your max charges to 3 as well, and since you no longer have to save FoF for deep freeze, it is very "affordable" save charges for movement or what-have-you. And yeah, water elemental functions almost exactly the same. Freeze still gives FoF on bosses, etc. The only change is there's a glyph for Bubbles that allows him to cast while moving and I believe, increases his health by 40%.

@Tryke - Of course they're pushing the viability of pve frost. They've been making efforts since halfway through Wrath. Why wouldn't they now?

And ehrm...yeah we'll have to see if glyphed IL starts causing problems with CC.

I read this in your voice.

WTB Fire video =[

Some of the better videos I've seen so +1 for youuu.

Aww, I wanted to do a frost video... but great one none-the-less, I am really looking forward for frost dps come MoP just from the looks of this video. However, just curious, which armor do you think would be the best for use as of right now in the early beta. Or is it a toss up depending on play style?

04/04/2012 11:36 AMPosted by Kvlt

I'm glad I'm leveling a mage

WTB Fire video =[

Some of the better videos I've seen so +1 for youuu.

Fire's pretty incomplete at the moment, so I'm holding off on that. And thank you :D

Aww, I wanted to do a frost video... but great one none-the-less, I am really looking forward for frost dps come MoP just from the looks of this video. However, just curious, which armor do you think would be the best for use as of right now in the early beta. Or is it a toss up depending on play style?

Do it! Make a video. There's nothing wrong with more info being available. Even if your opinions are different from mine, it generates discussion which can only help spread knowledge.

As far as armors, I'm playing around with frost because I like its interaction with frost bomb. All of them have pretty great effects though. Molten gets you close to or past the 30% shatter crit cap even in modest gear. Ice lance does absolutely tremendous damage, and mage armor buffs that even further. Honestly frost armor's probably the weakest one overall, I simply enjoy using it for the novelty. There's no way to really min/max it now though, and it's pointless anyway because all the numbers will probably change next build.

Once again thank you for all the comments folks.