Euro Mage Thread

There's a thread here on the Euro class boards that hasn't gotten much attention here in the States concerning how one would improve the class without significantly changing class balance with three small wishes. It's not really a particularly interesting read but has gotten a few Blue responses and historically threads like these haven't been awful predictors of future changes to the class.

Here is a summary of the requests:

1) Removal of the -10% dmg Tax................|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| (88)
2) Better Mana Gems....................................||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| (67)
3) Evocation Restores more Mana............|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| (57)
4) Various Bug Fixes(CS, Blink)..................||||||||||||||||||| (19)
5) Trainable Ice Block...................................||||||||||||||||||| (19)
6) Restore old Ignite......................................||||||||||||||||||| (19)
7) Improve Invisibility....................................|||||||||||||| (14)
8) New Mana Fountain Spell........................||||||||||||| (13)
9) More Intellect on Mage Gear..................|||||||||| (10)
10) Remove AoE Cap....................................|||||||| (8)
11) Lower Mana Cost of Arcane Spells...|||||||| (8)
12) Remove Hypothermia............................|||||| (6)
13) Tradable Mana Gems............................||||| (5)
14) Frost Nova should hold longer............|||| (4)

I don't think the list is really going to surprise anybody, but the two topics receiving slight Blue coverage were -10% dmg Tax and Mana Gem scaling issues. I'm probably a fan of #1,#2, and #5 (LOL, okay #13) over the other choices, but more explicitly I like:

1. Increase the mana return on mana gems by 33%. Mana gems no longer share a cooldown with the Warlock Healthstone ability.
   
2. Evocation now returns 100% of caster's Mana over 8 seconds. Cooldown is now 10 minutes.
   
3. Players can no longer consume non-conjured items in the Arena once again. (nerf non mage water)
   

Basically, restore the dependence on mages in the drinking/stalling game. The inclusion of water for every setup was a huge mistake as it really lets teams you'd normally be able to wear down drag games out near indefinitely. I do think a change to the mechanics of Evocation is needed as the scaling is far too different between PvE and PvP gear, and the spell should still be useful in PvP as it is a core class ability that has a heavy cost to use. That's it. ^^

That said, I suppose the following would also work:

1. Make Dragon's Breath trainable.
   
2. Make Ice Block trainable.
3. Make Slow trainable.