Well, what this exploit is simple but gamebreaking.
In naxx, in the Death Knight Wing there’s mobs called Death Knight Cavaliers and they have a spell called Bone Armor.
Bone Armor - Spell - World of Warcraft
Effect: Apply Aura: School Absorb (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: 1200000
So, that’s 1.2 million damage absorbed… They cast it fairly often too ( every 10 sec or so ) and it is spellstealable.
You must be wondering what the exploit is in spellstealing a spell from a mob… Well, here it is…
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by CHRISTIAN BELT
Chilly Slobberknocker
Is your Mage still working their way to level 80? If so, this is an easy choice. Once your Mage has reached level 75, you can take them toZul’drak and head directly for the Amphitheater of Anguish. This is the Northrend equivalent of Nagrand’s Ring of Blood questline, in that it’s a series of 5-man boss fights that grants a ridiculous amount of gold, potions, and experience, and ends with a pretty fantastic selection of blue weaponry as a final reward. The Mage choice is the Chilly Slobberknocker, and it it’s a great gift for any mid-level spell-slinger on your list. This will be an instant upgrade for almost any Mage at the level, and there isn’t a valid replacement until you begin to get access to level 80 instance drops.
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by DAVID BOWERS
The Mage is the foremost master of magic in the Warcraftuniverse. Although all the other classes excluding the Warrior and the Rogue use magic of one sort or another with equally wonderful effects, the Mage is the class that’s named after the stuff.
But what is magic? What does it feel like to harness it? Does the mage have to do a strange ritual or utter incomprehensible words in an ancient language in order to cast her spells? Other fantasy settings often have one or more of these elements together, but as far as I can tell,Warcraft lacks them.
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by CHRISTIAN BELT
Frostfire Bolt is an interesting little spell. When you first hit level 75, visit your Mage trainer and learn it, you may think to yourself, “So…it does frost and fire damage? It’s like a Fireball and a Frostbolt combined! You take some ice, and you combine it with some fire, and you come up with…slush? I’m not sure how something like that is effective, but whatever. Now I don’t have to respec to fight fire or ice-immune mobs, I guess? Let me see if I can find a place on my action bar for this. There we go. Right between Amplify Magic and my tea-bagging macro.”
You would not be totally wrong in thinking this way. Well, maybe for having a tea-bagging macro, but that’s wrong for a whole slew of other reasons. At level 75, when you first obtain the spell, that’s really about all it is: a damage spell to use when running into a mob that’s immune to your usual nuke. Frostfire Bolt doesn’t really hit its stride until you’ve hit level 80, talented specifically to get the most of the spell, and started to get some of that sweet Naxxramas gear.
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by CHRISTIAN BELT
This week, we’ll hit the rest of the new expansion’s reputation rewards and highlight those that you’ll want to start grinding for now, if you haven’t already started.
Kirin Tor
If you haven’t already taken your Mage to Dalaran (and seriously, if you haven’t, what are you waiting for, exactly?), get them there and look up the Kirin Tor. As a Mage, you begin at friendly with them, so you have a leg up on everyone else, but you still need to get started. Buy theirtabard, and start wearing it when you run a level 80 instance. If your Cooking skill isn’t high enough, raise it so that you can do the Cooking daily quests, because they, like the daily Jewelcrafting quests, grant Kirin Tor reputation. You can find this faction’s quartermaster in Dalaran, in the Violet Citadel.
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by CHRISTIAN BELT
I trust we, as a nation of Mages, are all happily churning our way through the new content, gazing about us in wonder and amazement at the majesty of Northrend, and then nuking the crap out of that majesty. I know I am. Just about everything about the Wrath experience has been positive for me so far. The visuals are incredible, the quests are fun and rich with lore, and the music is phenomenal. I could (and have) spend hours just wandering about Dalaran, taking in the ambiance, feeling all kinds of magey. Seriously, Blizzard, I’m starting a slow-clap right now, and it’s all for you.
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by CHRISTIAN BELT
I’m going to assume that most of you are well into leveling your Mages through Northrend. A lot of you will likely be sitting on level 72, 73 or 74ish, and some of you more crazy Mages might even be closing in on level 80. If you’ve already managed to cap your Mage, wow. I don’t know whether to congratulate you or stage an intervention. Either way, I’m afraid this week’s column isn’t going to be of much interest to you. It’s directed more at those of you still in the early-to-mid range of the 70-80 leveling stretch.
Leveling builds
In my opinion, there are three main kinds of talent specs in WoW. End-game raiding specs (of which I listed a few in last week’s Arcane Brilliance), end-game PvP specs (of which I plan to make list at some point after I actually reach the end-game and do a bit of PvPing), andleveling specs. The way you organize your talent points while leveling is often fundamentally different from the way you will re-organize them upon reaching the end-game. At end-game your talent points are strictly rationed out and tightly focused on whatever your goals happen to be. If your goal is high-end raiding content, you’ll take only those talents that will help you maximize your DPS output, control your threat generation, and manage your mana pool. If you’re focused on PvP, you’ll sacrifice a lot of those same talents for survivability/escape options, and sustained DPS will take a backseat to burst damage potential
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Pretty simple trick, might even call it common knowledge, but for those who doesent know this i guess ill just post it anyways:
at lvl 40 you can obtain combustion if your fire specced as a mage, so basicly what you do is you go to one of the high level target dummys, pop combustion and start spamming whatever spell you wish, your combustion will reach 10 stacks as the high level dummys are pretty much impossible to hit for you. This is pretty good for bgs or whatever, starting off with 100% crit on some abilitys can help quite a bit.
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To do this, you’ll need this item ,Thunder Capacitor - Item - World of Warcraft and Molten armor. Being frost would also be nice as you have ice barrier to protect you from damage.
You need to aggro guards and let them attack you until all of your charges are used up, the molten armor crits for around 400 at level 80 and the thunder capacitor crits for about 2500. so killing a level 75 guard would take about 2 minutes, but you have to remember you arent flagged so other player cant touch you.
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i’ve been aoe grinding in Utgarde keep for a while now on my mage and thought id post it.
youl need a mage around lvl 73-75 and you must be speced frost with imp blizzard.
start by pulling the first two mobs and aoe grind them down using frost nova and blizzard. repeat for other packs of mobs.
3-5 mobs per group with 37500hp each
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