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	Missile Barrage Arcane Blast and your other main spells can make your next Arcane Missiles faster and free.
Arcane	Arcane Geometry Reduces the mana cost of your Arcane spells.
Arcane	Arcane Impact Increases the critical chance of Arcane spells.
Arcane	Arcane Blast Each Arcane Blast briefly grants spell damage based on your Intellect, stacking up to four times, but makes it cost more.
Arcane	Arcane Shielding Your shields absorb more and cost less.
Arcane	Arcane Wrath A slow arcane spell on a short cooldown that also deals damage based on your maximum mana.
Fire	Incineration Increases the critical chance of Fire Blast, Scorch, Ice Lance and Arcane Blast.
Fire	Accelerant Reduces the cast time of Fireball, Frostfire Bolt and Arcane Wrath.
Fire	Heating Up Critical hits shorten the cast time of your next Pyroblast, stacking several times.
Frost	Ice Lance A quick frost lance, quadrupled 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 Forever client. The text below each one is the Classic tooltip, not our summary.

Arcane	Arcane Focus Reduces the chance that the opponent can resist your Arcane spells by 2%.
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 Fireball Reduces the casting time of your Fireball spell by 0.1 sec.
Fire	Incinerate Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast and Scorch spells by 2%.
Frost	Piercing Ice Increases the damage done by your Frost 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 0
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	Impact from 0 points in the tree to 5
Fire	Improved Fire Blast from 5 points in the tree to 10
Fire	Burning Soul a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
Frost	Cold Snap from 10 points in the tree to 20
Frost	Improved Blizzard a different column in the same row - the price stays at 10 points
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 Forever
Arcane	Arcane Resilience 1 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Fire	Impact 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Fire	Improved Fire Blast 3 ranks in Classic, 2 in Forever
Fire	Burning Soul 2 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Fire	Fire Power 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever
Frost	Shatter 5 ranks in Classic, 3 in Forever — our two Classic sources disagree here; the other one says 1

What changed since BlizzCon

26 changes between the trees shown at BlizzCon and the launch client.

gone	Arcane	Arcane Focus Arcane spells are resisted less often.
gone	Fire	Wake of Fire Leaves burning ground behind.
gone	Frost	Piercing Ice Increases the damage of Frost spells.
new	Arcane	Arcane Wrath A slow arcane spell on a short cooldown that also deals damage based on your maximum mana.
new	Fire	Improved Fire Blast Shortens the cooldown of Fire Blast and increases its range.
renamed	Fire	Improved Fireball → Accelerant Reduces the cast time of Fireball, Frostfire Bolt and Arcane Wrath.
renamed	Fire	Hot Streak → Heating Up Critical hits shorten the cast time of your next Pyroblast, stacking several times.
renamed	Frost	Elemental Precision → Precision Increases the chance for all your spells to hit.
moved	Arcane	Improved Channeling Channelled spells are interrupted less often.
moved	Arcane	Arcane Resilience Intellect also increases your armor.
moved	Arcane	Missile Barrage Arcane Blast and your other main spells can make your next Arcane Missiles faster and free.
moved	Frost	Permafrost Chill effects last longer and slow more.
moved	Frost	Frostbite Chill effects gain a chance to freeze the target.
moved	Frost	Frost Channeling Reduces the cost and threat of Frost spells.
moved	Frost	Improved Blizzard Blizzard slows enemies caught in it.
ranks	Arcane	Arcane Resilience Intellect also increases your armor.
ranks	Arcane	Missile Barrage Arcane Blast and your other main spells can make your next Arcane Missiles faster and free.
ranks	Fire	Incineration Increases the critical chance of Fire Blast, Scorch, Ice Lance and Arcane Blast.
ranks	Fire	Fire Power Each of your Fire effects on the target increases your Fire damage against it.
reworded	Arcane	Arcane Blast Each Arcane Blast briefly grants spell damage based on your Intellect, stacking up to four times, but makes it cost more.
reworded	Fire	Incineration Increases the critical chance of Fire Blast, Scorch, Ice Lance and Arcane Blast.
reworded	Fire	Fire Power Each of your Fire effects on the target increases your Fire damage against it.
reworded	Frost	Frost Warding Frost and Ice Armor protect more, Frost Ward can negate a spell outright, and Ice Barrier and Frost Ward absorb more.
reworded	Frost	Ice Lance A quick frost lance, quadrupled against frozen targets.
reworded	Frost	Winter's Chill Frost spells stack Winter’s Chill, which your next Cone of Cold consumes for extra damage.
reworded	Frost	Ice Barrier A shield that absorbs damage and raises your Frost damage. While it holds, hits do not cost you casting time.

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).