So wow gold , in the spirit of preserving the history of all things mage-related, I’d like to bring you this brief history of the single prettiest spell in the game: Frostfire Bolt.
November 2008: Wrath of the Lich King is released. wow gold, Mages everywhere discover that at level 75 they get access to a brand new spell, called Frostfire Bolt. It combines the effects of both Fireball and Frostbolt. Because it benefits from all talents that affect either fire and frost spells cheap wow gold , a new elementalist spec is born. It dives into both the fire and frost trees to take every talent that can possibly improve this single spell. cheap wow gold, Blizzard wholly endorses this spec, having introduced the spell for the sole purpose of allowing such a talent configuration.
December 2008: As mages everywhere enter the initial stages of raiding content in the new expansion buy wow gold , they discover that the so-called Frostfire build is at that time the single best DPS mage spec in the game. buy wow gold,
March 2010: Frostfire what? I’m sorry. I totally forgot what we were talking about. Oh yeah. That old spell. People still use that?
Now, before all three of you serious Frostfire mages still playing this game destroy me buy cheap wow gold , you should probably click through to the rest of the column.
I miss Frostfire Bolt. I miss it a lot. Here was an incredibly fun, interesting idea that mages had been asking for and even experimenting with (as far as the mechanics of the time would allow) for pretty much as long as WoW had existed: an elementalist spec. buy cheap wow gold, And with the implementation of one very sexy-looking spell buy gold wow , Blizzard had provided the means with which to bring the concept into the endgame.
If a mage wanted to dabble in both the fire and frost trees, that mage could now do so, and even top the DPS charts while they were at it. buy gold wow, Mages had four distinct specs to choose from, a new primary nuke to explore, and most importantly cheap wow gold , a new and exciting way to slaughter warlocks.
In fact, aside from a few very limited situational uses, Frostfire Bolt existed entirely for the purpose of making such a spec possible. cheap wow gold, If you weren’t a Frostfire mage, you simply didn’t use Frostfire Bolt. It was created as the main nuke for a fourth mage spec, and outside of that function, it was essentially useless.

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