I haven't felt there is much to update about lately, but I thought I would make an Icecrown post!
Read and listened to new soundfiles today (you can look at them
here- warning,
spoilers!), very very intrigued! As you may not know, I am a huge lore nerd. I certainly don't know everything, but I love reading the books and immersing myself in it. I find that lore really enhances the game, and you may not know until you've read a book and then replayed an encounter which involves characters from said books.
Here, an example from my own experience: My guild was raiding Hyjal. It was just a raid, with a bunch of horribly tedious AE waves stuff and a chick, and then I read
Cycle of Hatred. After that, the raid and Jaina were more than just a pile of pixels to me, they became something more interesting.
Anyways, on to the goodies! =D
Look at this delicious
Mage T10. It is delicious.
I'm going to have to say that my favourite scheme are the top and the bottom colours. Fantastic! I'm really loving the wrestling-style belts they started putting in during ToC, and the helm is pretty BA.
Now, I won't begin to even touch the mage changes yet (next post maybe? =o). It would seem that they are attempting to make all three specs somewhat equally viable for raiding. I'm sure though that there will always be a superior spec (or two, with dual spec for certain encounters).
Mage T10 set bonuses:
Mage- 2 Pieces: Your Hot Streak, Missile Barrage, and Brain Freeze talents also grant you 12% haste for 5 seconds when the effect of the talent is consumed.
- 4 Pieces: Your Mirror Image ability also causes you to deal 18% additional damage for 30 seconds.
The 2 piece set bonus is great. 12% is a fair amount of haste. What I am interested in is if there in an internal CD on the 2 piece haste proc, or if (depending on your HS, MBarr, or BF procs of course) it would be a very steady amount of (almost) straight haste.
I like the 4 piece also, 30s is a great duration, and 18% more damage is always nice. Basically it means 18% more damage every 2.5 minutes if you're in an encounter where you're able to pop it every time the CD is up.
In other news, want.
