Ice Lance now has an eight-second cooldown shared with Fire Blast, and Frost Blast is removed in the official notes. Old simulator fields should not determine your action bars.
Frost checks
Ice Lance's bonus against frozen targets rises to 300%, without removing the shared cooldown. Ice Barrier grants 15% Frost damage for one minute on activation, plus 5% while the barrier holds; it is not a permanent 20% bonus.
Arcane checks
Arcane Blast's per-stack Mana increase becomes 100%, Intellect-to-spell-damage contribution becomes 12% per stack and duration becomes eighteen seconds. Watch mana and group pacing; these values alone do not define an optimal rotation.
Arcane Focus is removed and combined into Frost's Precision, a three-point 2/4/6% hit talent for all spells. Recheck old allocations.
Coordinate control
Agree on crowd-control targets before using area damage. Our old article's simulator stubs and identifiers did not prove live abilities or originality; those conclusions are withdrawn.
Use the dungeon directory and treat Mage builds as historical. No live performance or leveling-speed test is claimed.