Christian, you're dreaming.

Blizz is NOT EVER going to make mages really powerful. We're the butler, chauffer and cook of Wow, and Blizz isn't going to change us, cause to Blizz, we're too valuable in supplying needed things for the other classes.

Frostfire will simply be a reduced version of either Frost or Firebolt, and Blizz will puff out their chest for being SO SMART to GIVE us this wonderful spell that should solve all our problems.

Pretty soon Chilton will let slip that what he really meant by "jaw-dropping damage" was that mages will now be able to apply their current damage, or close to it, to all forms of enemies, without the limitations of fire or frost, and it was never Blizz's intent to improve the actual DPS of mages, only their UTILITY.

A long time ago, Blizz posted...back in Patch 1.4 or 1.5...that "no further class revisions are currently foreseen". Obviously, that was a joke, given the rise of the pet users and rogues, but mages have absolutely been frozen, ever since.

As nice as it would be for mages to get some useful damage improvement, it's not gonna happen, and anyone who grasps at the farciful straws Blizz tosses out is kidding themselves.

Having QQ'd for the record, don't stop writing this column, cause it does read well, even if the subject is a dead one.

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