New abilities at level 8; Branching out with Entangling Roots

New abilities at level 8; Branching out with Entangling Roots At level 8, the new skills you’ll get are Entangling Roots and Healing Touch (rank 2). Entangling Roots adds a much needed crowd control aspect to Druid warfare. So far, you’ve been suffering through as a pure offensive caster, trying to get your spells off as fast as you can before your opponent forces you into melee combat. With Entangling Roots, you now have a spell that has the same range as Wrath and Moonfire, with the same 1.5 second casting time as Wrath, that not only applies damage over time for 12 seconds, but also roots your target into place so he can’t run after you. Now, damage applied to a target that is affected by Entangling Roots will, more often than not, break the root early. And it happens often enough that some Druids neglect using Entangling Roots at all when soloing, except when an additional mob joins a fight. And that’s a shame, because rooting targets properly is fun and makes leveling as a caster a lot easier. Being animals at heart, adding Entangling Roots to our combat sequence lets us

Mage Specs

Mage Specs   Arcane How to Spot: As one of my guildies put it, Mages are very patriotic– their hands are either red, white, or blue. Arcane-specced mages’ hands are usually flaring white, as they often cast Arcane Missiles. Slow is the highest talent in this tree, but you hardly ever see that cast– most Mages, even if they spec Fire or Frost, will go up to 21 points in this tree just to get Presence of Mind (POM), which makes the next spell cast an instant. Pyroblast is actually a Fire talent, but lots of Mages love to cast it with POM, so if you see a big fireball coming at you instantly, you’re looking at a half-Arcane, half-Fire mage. They Can: Conserve mana. Arcane mages have the best mana usage rate out of all three trees. They Can’t: Blow stuff up like Fire mages. Arcane mages are the nerds of the mage community– they get nice bonuses, but they aren’t as flashy as the other specs.   Fire How to Spot: They are blowing you up. Pyroblast, Blast Wave, Scorch, Dragon’s Breath and Combustion are all Fire Mage talents, so if you get hit with any of