Arcane Mage Review of Sunfury Hero Talents - Magi of the Sunwell
06.05.2024 - 21:05
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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.
Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. With the release of Alpha, Blizzard has previewed most Hero Talents Trees coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Hero Talent Trees revealed so far. Check out all of our released Hero Talent reviews in our new Editorial Section.
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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 Alpha gameplay I have seen and the design itself seems to draw inspiration from established lore in the game, really amplifying the theme of the hero talent choice. Sunfury does a lot to differentiate itself from Spellslinger, giving gratuitous amounts of haste via the Mana Addiction talent which will likely feel very good given the removal of Temporal Warp. Getting faster resets on Arcane Orb through the Burden of Power/Glorious Incandescence loop along with the bird's spells adapting to target counts (the phoenix will cast more AOE spells when there are more targets grouped up to hit), should make this tree a huge success in AOE.
I would judge the theme of this talent tree off the metric that does the theme and design capture being one of the blood
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