What happened to the +Range Talents?

#0 - July 16, 2010, 12:31 a.m.

The new 31pt talents for cata look horrible to me.

It reeks of "dev's being lazy and not wanting to test talent combos for raids as much".

But from a dps perspective for mages, a super ultra key ingredient to dps is boosting range And none of the talents in any tree of any class as far as I can see have +range.

I'm seeing these through the links from mmo-champ, and I'm also peering into spells from mmo-champ, and the spells have the same range.

So are they gone for good? Replaced by something else? Anyone?

EDIT... Thanks for the reply on the range. As LHivera and I have realized, is the aoe boosts to things like cone of cold , frost nova, and blizzard have details missing. Will they be increased as well?

Ghostcrawler

#6 - July 16, 2010, 6:49 a.m.

Pure classes just have their spells always go to maximum range. We have to keep some checks and balances in place for healing classes to make sure the dps spec beats the healing spec when actually doing dps. Hit, big crits and range are some of the mechanics that let Elemental \ Balance \ Shadow trump the Restos and the healing preists.