Please post 3.2.2 notes

[daviddoran]

Wow is all I have to say. I was considering ditching my mages for my locks, but now it seems that mixing them will work nicely.

[heyaz]

Glad to see fan of knives finally being nerfed. Would love to see hurricane, volley, mind sear, and most of the other spammable AoEs nerfed as well. "Aoe everything" is the theme of this expansion.

There was a time when aoe damage was a luxury of a few classes, and its uses seemed appropriate - spread small amounts of damage over large groups when necessary. Now, it hits and even crits individual targets almost as hard as direct hits, and is available to nearly every class in the game. It's turned many pvp situations into aoe spam fests, especially 5v5 arena.

Then there is aoe cc. CC was once an art form that required timing and strategy, and an appropriate mix of classes. Now you just spam it and hit everyone in range, and most classes can do it.

Not sure if the trend will continue but if it does, expect to see 61 point talent gimmicks like aoe polymorph, aoe mortal strike and god knows what else in the future.

[Greythan]

Thanks for the math on the probability for a missle barrage proc.

Seems like the rotation I listed (ABx4, AM) will be a rather easy, high DPS rotation to maintain. Beauty of it is that haste doesn't mess up the timing, just makes all five spells cast faster. Can't wait. My mage is already my top DPS toon.

[OogaJiggaWooga]

The arcane mage changes are unreal. I was already doing pretty good DPS I thought. I may just drop my arcane barrage altogether and simply cast an arcane missle after four blasts. Seems like the proc will likely be up every time with four casts each having a 40% proc rate?

Nice cast sequence: Arcane Blast x4 -> Arcane Missles; repeat.

I'm loving this change to mages as well - farewell any problems I might have had with mana on long boss fights. Accoring to E-J, after the 3.1 (?) nerf to ABarr, the optimum dps rotation for arcane mages was simply 3 x AB, AM (whether or not MBarr had procced). This will simply ramp up the damage on the final AM while making it more likely that MBarr will have procced. I'm a very happy camper