Arcane Mage Review of Sunfury Hero Talents - Magi of the Sunwell
Blizzard revealed nearly all the Hero Talent Trees including 6 new ones with the launch of the War Within Alpha.
Our Arcane Mage guide writer, Porom, offers an early review of the Sunfury Hero Talents that offer an incredible aesthetic making the mage feel like a general in Kael'thas' army but also complements the recent Arcane rework.
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Sunfury Arcane Mage Review
First Impressions
The Sunfury tree is going to be available to Arcane and Fire Mages in The War Within. The focus of the tree is shared between specs, generating Spellfire Spheres through our rotational procs and effects, then summoning a powerful Arcane Phoenix which casts a random assortment of Mage spells shared between Arcane and Fire and quickly spends the generated Spellfire Spheres, each causing the bird to cast an exceptional spell. For Arcane specifically, this will involve consuming 4 Clearcasting to generate each sphere, which currently this shares the same issues I discussed in my Spellslinger article. However, Blizzard's recent comments leads me to believe that this problem will be addressed soon, hopefully in a way that allows this proc to be generated and utilized in single target, cleave, and AOE at similar rates so that hero talents do not feel absent in one form of content or another. Currently a lot of things will be up in the air as of writing this due to the impending design shifts mentioned in the article linked above.
That all said, Sunfury looks incredibly fun in the
