Spanish Blog

Since yesterday I'm also writting in The Arcane Tales (in spanish), a brother blog of this one you are currently reading. If you are from spain you will enjoy the spanish version a lot more.


(Just a quick update ^^)

5-Man Dungeon Set

The Cataclysm 5-Man Dungeon Set has been found in the game files, WE RETURN TO CLASSIC!


This is the Mage Set

I'm a FIBer!

I've good news from my academic life, I've entered FIB, the Computers and Programming Faculty of Barcelona, on September I'm starting university! yeeehay! This will be amazing, I'm anxious to start and learn lots of new things. 
This will also help me in order to continue and improve the Simulator

Arcane Mage in Cataclysm

Cataclysm, the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, will shatter Azeroth and change it forever, so what will this affect the Mage Class?


New Spells & Changes to Abilities and Mechanics:

-Time Warp: Haste buff for the party/raid similar to Bloodlust/Heroism (Shaman Spell)

-Flame Orb: The Mage will cast a Flame Orb that will travel in straight line, you will cast it and leave it, no channeling :)

-Wall of Fog: 30-yard wide Wall of Fog in front of the target, it slows down and does damage. And it's not channeled so you can use it with Blizzard
-Arcane Missiles will be a proc-based spell


Is there a place for mages in the Cataclysm Expansion?

The answer is ABSOLUTELY YES and in my opinion a very important one, let me explain why: Cataclysm dungeons seem to be by far more dynamic than WotLK ones, being CCs, Stuns, Silences and all kinds of Class mechanics absolutely needed in order to succeed. Mages have one of the best CC spell in game: [Polymorph], and improved with the [Improved Polymorph] talent that will stun the target for 3 seconds if the target is damaged when polymorphed, what will become in a very important class for survival in Dungeons. We also have the [Counterspell], a ranged spell casting silence, that silences the target the magic school they were casting for 8 seconds. I don't think it's useful to get [Improved Counterspell] because mobs usually cast only one magic school spells. In order to control mobs we will have [Wall of Fog], and [Time Warp] that will be very useful for the raid/party (as much as it is nowadays Heroism/Bloodlust).

New Gear:

[Sanctified Bloodmage Hood]
[Muradin's Spyglass]
[Kilt of Untreated Wounds]
[Ashen band of Unmatched Destruction]

New Talents in WoWTal

WoWTal, the talent calculator from MMO-Champion, has been updated with the last build talents


What do you think about your talent tree at this current moment?

New Computer: AlienwareM15x

I'm buying a new computer (I NEED IT! my current computer can't even run World of Warcraft, in low settings, fluently) and I've decided that to buy the Alienware M15x. Also I'm going to start Computer  Engineering this year so I needed a laptop, and I've chosen this one:

• GPU nVidia Geforce GTX260M with 1GB graphical dedicated memory
• Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 720QM (1.60Ghz, 6MB L3 cache)
• RAM: DDR3 SDRAM de 4.096 MB a 1.333 MHz canal dual [2x2.048]

Cataclysm Instances

I'm impressed by the first images and videos of the Cataclysm Instances and very, very happy, because as I see there are interesting mechanics and long fight bosses!


Take a look at this videos from Stonecore:

What do you think about the videos?

Warcraft News

Some World of Warcraft News from MMO-Champion.com

New Gear

I have recently got some new gear (which I'm a little proud of) is from the very start from ICC10 (we have killed the first 6 bosses only):

[Bloodmage Hood]
[Bloodmage Gloves]
[Scourgelord Baton]
[Ashen Band of Greater Destruction]
[Signet of Putrefaction]

FallingLeavesandWings: The Anti Gear-Score Experience

In the resto druid blog Falling Leaves and Wings, I saw some time ago an interesting article about an Anti Gear-Score experience. It's a very interesting article about a PUG raid to ICC25 without any kind of Gear Score filter and how, with some illusion and interest GearScore is less important.