| From what I've seen hinted at on the blizz boards, signs point to them giving mages some way of reducing aggro. Whether that means changing 'Arcane Subtetly' to effect all offensive spells, or adding a 'Fire subtetly' and 'Frost subtetly', or actually adding a 'feint' type spell.. remains to be seen.
I think they will get a talent to make a % of their int into +damage, similar to the priest talent Spiritual Guidance.
Also, some of the posts on the boards from blizz people suggests that they want to make the elementalist build (fire/frost) more viable. Considering Arcane is only picked because certain talents are required, either they are moving those to other trees (gimping arcane), making them standard, or re-doing the entire arcane theme. If they take the talents that everyone takes in arcane, evoc and IAE, standard, then there will be very little reason to put points in arcane. Unless, they replace them with similarly mandatory talents, or re-do the entire tree. Fire is useless for PvE right now, and elementalist build is semi-popular in PvP already. | 