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Presence of Mind

Presence of Mind

Instant	1.5 min cooldown

Requires Mage (Arcane)
Requires level 22

Causes your next Mage spell to be instant. Does not apply to Polymorph, Portal, or Teleport spells.

Buff

Presence of Mind	Magic

Your next Mage spell will be an instant cast spell. Does not apply to Polymorph, Portal, or Teleport spells.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1.5 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Modifies Cast Time (10)
Value: -100 milliseconds%
Affected Spells:

Conjure Refreshment Table	Frostfire Bolt	Conjure Refreshment
Ring of Frost	Frostjaw	Frost Bomb
Rune of Power	Frost Armor	Pyroblast
Mage Armor	Flamestrike	Fireball
Frostbolt	Scorch	Molten Armor
Arcane Blast	Summon Water Elemental

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Overrides Actionbar Spell

	Ring of Frost

Affected Spells:

	Ring of Frost

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Comments

Comment by Kingrames

Presence of mind works well with Fireball, Frostbolt and Polymorph. While you might be tempted to only use it for dps, it can be very useful when applied creatively.

For example, in Alterac Valley, usually players will mount up and attempt to kite the guards at a flagstand away so that another player can capture that flag. If you use Presence of Mind and Polymorph the mounted player, the 4 guards will make short work of him - Polymorph dismounts players.

Note that if you use PoM (Presence of Mind), its cooldown isn't activated until after you cast a spell that triggers it. Therefore, it's best not to hit the PoM button until you want to instantly cast a spell.

Comment by asakawa

I think frostbolt + fireball (if your target get stunned shoot another fireball) + fireblast + Presence of Mind + pyroblast + fireblast (if the colldown is finish) is the best combo ever :D

Comment by Azalon

In PVP BGs such as AB and the Arena I turn on PoM during the prep period. Its especially useful in AB when you are riding to get to your first objective and many times the first person who dismounts will win the fight. With PoM already turned on, it becomes an equalizer. In the Arena, PoM allows me to poly morph one of the contestants at the beginning. Its especially effective in 2 vs 2 match ups where you poly one and you and your buddy kill the other. I turn on PoM to open mainly due to beating silencing effects.

As stated before PoM + Poly is great when knocking players off the mounts, its also very good at defense in AV. Such as, on the bridge into the Alliance HQ. A well placed Frost Nova can coat the whole bridge. If the Horde comes in, in waves, you frost nova the first group, PoH Poly any healer class stragglers and the rest of you party starts focus fire on the nova'd. Whats sad is this normally stops the charge as the next wave is somewhat hessitant to move forward.

Comment by Darnick

Like doing combos? Like being killed? Love big crits? Like aoe grinding? Mage is for you.

No way! Get a life! Mage sucks!

Instant pyroblast only reason to make a mage.

Comment by valas420

can you say dismount from a flying mount pom and poly someone then you slowfall and laugh as they drop to their doom?

Comment by lancaster4

can someone tell me whether presence of mind work with blizzard? i know that blizzard is more of a channelling spell than a spell with a casting time. but if it does, than presence of mind -->blizzard is certainly better than presence of mind-->pyroblast. i guess it wouldnt work can someone confirm this for me?

Comment by Finko

PoM + Poly is way underused, specifically for PvE. It's a very nice tool for keeping the sheep away from the rest of the group on the initial pull. People can just AoE away if they need to. I like to use it against locks in PvP, so they can't drop 10 dots on my head before I get a single cast off. Not to mention, you'll probably be spelllocked by the felhound for the duration of the sheep anyway...

Comment by Kingrames

Another useful tip for presence of mind:
use it quickly if targeting a level 70 mage. It can be stolen with spellsteal.

Comment by Argus9

Note that this talent only applies to spells that have a casting time of LESS THAN 10 seconds, so you can't use this talent to instantly teleport to a city (which would have been an easy way to escape a tough fight).

Comment by rawruu

So is it best for arenas and pvp to do arc fire w/ 21/40/0 or somethin like that? or is best to do a little arcane to get improved counterspell and do the rest frost?... i've been wondering this because i plan on respecing when i hit 70 soon and i'll b doin lots of arena and battlegrounds, not too much PVE

Comment by dctrjons

If I'm planning on heading out again or traveling some distance, I use it for all the conjures. Whatever I am low on.

Comment by Mortenz

If you have atleast +1 haste rating on any item, you can PoM + Teleport.

Comment by Overdrive

PoM only applies to spells that have a BASE cast time under 10 secs, so haste rating will not make a difference.

Comment by Zygore

What I really like to do for people who want to throw off a huge damage is to obtain not only PoM but Arcane Power even though it increases mana cost it also increases damage so if your at a good amount of mana this would be perfect for you. Also if you have clearcasting you might be lucky enough for it to pop for your Pyroblast or anything after it if it's still up. What I do is very similar to Sulph; if you have a trinket use it first then pop Arcane Power followed by a PoM Pyroblast then do whatever you please. Another good thing to do if you have the time (as in if it is CC'd) is to stack up scorch expecially if you have improved scorch. This is amazing for both PvE and PvP just don't forget to wait and NOT pull aggro off the tank in PvE.

Comment by FaustInDeath

Presence of Mind can be reallz handy when u re fire and want to aoe ...cast Arcane Power, charge a flamestrike when they're not looking , and Pom and flamestrike again it does some nice amount of damage.

Another nifty trick is when you want to get a player of his flying mount ... simply mount up, go up to him, cast slowfall cast PoM and cast polymorph. I always keep a macro like this on my bar:

/dismount
/cast slow fall
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Polymorph

Also keep in mind that presence of mind is considered a buff ... so it can be devoured,purged,dispelled,or spellstealed.

Comment by marsmetroid

I´m not so used as mage. Where can you learn Presence of Mind?

Comment by Sagercy

with a little spell haste, portals will be under 10 secs. So could one instantly put up a portal with this?

Comment by fezo

can you PoM evocation?, u gain all the mana u were gonna gain after 10secs, but instanty

Comment by KingAnubis7

Its good to fireball (3.5 unless proc'ed) Pyroblast cause then youll have the initial blast to work with (This is all assuming you have mana shield on ;) ) then Presence of Mind, Pyroblast thats a sh^t load of damage cause you guys use too many fireballs when you know when your gunna get stunned or something.

Comment by KingAnubis7

my eyes hurt reading that block of typing i didnt even attempt to read it.

Comment by POINGjam

Do instant cast spells consume Presence of Mind? And does Presence of Mind trigger a global cooldown?

Comment by veno3

This talent is getting reworked in Patch 3.0.9

# Arcane Power and Presence of Mind now share a category cooldown. Arcane Power causes a 15 second cooldown. Presence of Mind, once consumed, causes a 1.5 second cooldown.

# Presence of Mind: The cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes, (down from 3.)

Comment by ShiroMage

Ah, just asked a guy on Wow.

You just can't have those two spells active at 1 time.

May it be by CD or like some spells, just grayed-out when you can't use it.

I'm a mage, and I wanted this change badly

I'm fire speced, so I hated the PoM AP Pyro !@$# you get from arcane mages.

Comment by fenoglio

also:

i believe that PoM will trigger a cooldown of 15 sec on any ability with a cast time more than 5 seconds... bye PoM pyro, ill not forget ya!

Comment by Rufina

You can still use POM+Pyro, but you can't use arcane power with as long as it is active.

Comment by megapallydude

a rly good way to use this is make a macro

/cast pressence of mind
/cast frostfire bolt

thats good dmg there

Comment by Toldry

You can use Presence of Mind to create a mana gem instantly, that can be useful at times.

Comment by Arathian

A must-have spell that for some strange reason, some of my guildies didn't pick
(get it? mwhahahaha)

Comment by xromania

im the only mage in this world (i have done a google search too, nothing) who noticed a stupid thing - when u conjure food or mana gem presence of mind is used?

Comment by Protodrake

At other times you just don't have a mind present.

Comment by silkfire

Icon does not fit spell. What does Presence of Plate Helmet to do with a cloth-wearing mage?

Comment by keeker

PoM-Pyro is back yes? Love this! It may be stupid of me, but I macroed this to always fire off a pyroblast whenever PoM was up.

Comment by Teenspirit

How I use this as a fire mage, you will need Presence of Mind in your build.

Start the fight and get the Pyroblast!(instant pyroblast) buff, dont use it yet.

Then use this macro:

#showtooltip Alter Time
/Cast Presence of Mind
/Cast Alter Time

Now, you can cast two Pyroblasts instantly, then press the macro again and you can cast two more instantly. Then ofcourse its time for Combustion.

Comment by Moppentoff

Unless i've somehow broken the game, casting Polymorph (Turtle, if it matters) on a critter using PoM does not remove PoM.

Comment by Sinjow

I am VERY surprised not to see this here. So surprised, in fact, I -had- to make an account.

NOTE: When you cast presence of mind, you receive a buff that states your next spell with a cast time less than 10 seconds will be instant instead of having a cast time. As long as you have this buff on, post-cast, the spell that gives the buff will NOT begin its cooldown.

HOWEVER, there is an exception to this! When you cast Presence of Mind, then follow up with Alter Time, if you use the Presence of Mind buff to cast a spell before Alter Time resets you, Presence of Mind will begin cooling down. After Alter Time resets your position, you will have the Presence of Mind buff, but it will also be cooling down.

TL;DR- Cast Presence of Mind, cast Alter Time, cast Bolt. After Alter Time, you have Presence of Mind Buff and Presence of Mind has also begun cooling down.

The Presence of Mind buff does NOT stack, so there's no point in casting it while you have the buff, but it is important to note that you could have up to two Instant-cast spells prepared ahead of time by setting up the previous situation to make sure you have PoM on while having it off cooldown.

The uses outside of World PvP are miniscule, and even then, you could always just take time to cast the first frostbolt/arcane blast/whatever.bolt, but the fact of the matter is that you -can- do this.

Comment by LostDrewid

Sadly it won't work with Evocation/Invocation for an instant heal :(

Comment by Sage22

What's Up!

Presence of Mind (PoM) is a wonderful spell to utilize in the most intense fights for some extra burst damage. Of course, the mage doesn't really seem to be wanting much more burst damage than it already has, but that is a conversation for another time. While the spell itself is amazing, I am a bit more shallow.

I turn on PoM all the time. I have it activated when questing, between quests, at the auction house, picking herbs, and even skinning those cute little creatures littered across the lands of Azeroth! You may ask why, and my response would be simple. It is all about aesthetics!

Presence of Mind, when left unused (but still activated), leaves this beautiful special effect around the mage's feet. It looks much like the ripples of a skipping stone being thrown across the serene waters of Pandaria. The effect only lasts for less than a second, but it repeats every other second.

So, for the people that love to transmog, it really adds another layer of enjoyment when the player considers what their spells/buffs do to their characters!

Comment by rangothAU

This is being removed in Warlords of Draenor and replaces with a spell called Evanesce. This replaces Ice Block and lets you fade into the nether, avoiding all attacks against you for the duration. This spell may be cast while a cast-time spell is in progress and is not on the global cooldown. While the duration is much shorter, 3 seconds, the cooldown is also 45 seconds, down from 5 mins.

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