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Each week Arcane Brilliance peeks takes a quick peek into the world of Mages. The peek has to be quick indeed, for to look any longer into that world is to invite madness. I mean, have you looked in there? There are humans making copies of themselves, soon after their copies are turning society into penguins, next those penguins are getting set on fire and frozen, all at the same time…it’s…it’s not right. I don’t know what it is, but it isn’t right, society.

So…the giant nerf-patch of doom came down that week. It hit everyone. Except…Mages? Huh? What…how…who?

I had myself all braced for the nerf-bat to hit us, and well, I guess it whiffed? I dunno. Our Mirror Image is still awesome, our Deep Freeze still stuns, does good damage, and is instant, our Arcane Barrage is still on a glorious 3 second cooldown, and our Frostfire Bolt still benefits from every talent that affects either Fire or Frost spells. Surely Blizzard can’t be happy with Mages being the actual, genuine kings of DPS in a physical universe that actually exists.

Virtually.

And only in beta profile.

Cough.

We’ll get a nerf in the cursed name of “balancing” eventually, I’m certain, but for now we get a reprieve. And I couldn’t be happier.

This week, I’m going to list a few things–some of them big, some of them small–that I love about being a Mage in the beta right now. whether even a few of these compose it live, there is cause for rejoicing, and any that we lose in all of the class-polishing hobnobbery that goes on within now and that glorious day in which we install Northrend onto our hard drives will be cause to mourn. Join me after the jump for the list.

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Original post by Christian Belt