Mage: Forever against Classic

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New in Forever

Talents with no counterpart in Classic 1.12.

Arcane	Improved Channeling Channelled spells are interrupted less often.
Arcane	Arcane Geometry Reduces the mana cost of your Arcane spells.
Arcane	Arcane Impact Increases the critical chance of Arcane spells.
Arcane	Arcane Blast An arcane blast that grows stronger when repeated.
Arcane	Arcane Shielding Your shields absorb more and cost less.
Arcane	Missile Barrage Spells can make Arcane Missiles instant.
Fire	Wake of Fire Leaves burning ground behind.
Fire	Incineration Increases the critical chance of Fire Blast and Scorch.
Fire	Hot Streak Two critical hits make your next spell instant.
Frost	Ice Lance A quick frost lance, tripled against frozen targets.
Frost	Fingers of Frost Chill effects make your next spell act as if the target were frozen.

Gone from Classic

Talents that existed in Classic and are not in the beta client. The text below each one is the Classic tooltip, not our summary.

Arcane	Improved Arcane Missiles Gives you a 20% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling Arcane Missiles.
Arcane	Magic Attunement Increases the effect of your Amplify Magic and Dampen Magic spells by 25%.
Arcane	Improved Arcane Explosion Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane Explosion spell by an additional 2%.
Arcane	Improved Mana Shield Decreases the mana lost per point of damage taken when Mana Shield is active by 10%.
Fire	Improved Fire Blast Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 0.5 sec.
Fire	Incinerate Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast and Scorch spells by 2%.

Moved within its tree

Same tree, different row. A row is a price: from row 2 to row 5 the talent costs 25 points in the tree instead of 10.

Arcane	Arcane Subtlety from 0 points in the tree to 5
Arcane	Wand Specialization from 5 points in the tree to 0
Arcane	Arcane Resilience from 10 points in the tree to 5
Arcane	Arcane Meditation a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Arcane	Arcane Instability a different column in the same row - the price stays at 25 points
Fire	Improved Fireball a different column in the same row - the price stays at 0 points
Fire	Impact from 0 points in the tree to 5
Fire	Burning Soul a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
Frost	Frostbite a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Frost	Permafrost a different column in the same row - the price stays at 5 points
Frost	Cold Snap from 10 points in the tree to 20
Frost	Frost Channeling from 15 points in the tree to 10
Frost	Shatter a different column in the same row - the price stays at 15 points
Frost	Ice Block from 20 points in the tree to 15
Frost	Improved Cone of Cold a different column in the same row - the price stays at 20 points

A different number of ranks

The talent exists in both, with a different number of ranks.

Arcane	Magic Absorption 5 ranks in Classic, 2 in the beta
Arcane	Arcane Resilience 1 ranks in Classic, 2 in the beta
Fire	Impact 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in the beta
Fire	Burning Soul 2 ranks in Classic, 3 in the beta
Frost	Elemental Precision 3 ranks in Classic, 5 in the beta
Frost	Shatter 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in the beta — our two Classic sources disagree here; the other one says 1

What changed since BlizzCon

Nothing. The Mage trees are the same as the ones shown at BlizzCon.

Two independent Classic 1.12 talent datasets, compared against each other: maladr0it/classic-talent-calculator and hseager/Classic-WoW-Talent-Planner. All 431 talents they share sit at identical positions in both. Names and positions are taken from the second, which is the complete one; the first is missing Faerie Fire (Feral).