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The following article is a method for glitching out the mass barrier talent for mage so it can be used on other players without needing the talent active afterwards.

Look at the left-hand part of your talent tree - this is the part designed for all specs that class uses - the right-hand part is the class specific part.. Find an ability with two options. In this example I will use the mage talent "mass invisibility/mass barrier"-this is located in the far right of the left-hand side of the mage talent tree.

If you select the mass barrier talent and activate it you will notice that you cannot switch the talent while mass barrier is active. You get an error message stating that you cannot change the talent while mass barrier is on cooldown. This is a good indication that something is exploitable: if Blizzard are stopping you doing something it is because they think you can benefit from it.

We can get around this restriction by switching specialization rather than talent. Here's an example:

1. Set up a secondary (eg fire/arcane/frost talent specialization with mass barrier.

2. Set up a main talent specialization without mass barrier.

3. Cast mass barrier

4. Switch to main spec.

You do not get to keep your shield personally, but the shields you cast on others persists after the spec change. The specialization you change into should be your main specialization.

This mage exploit is quite strong at the start of a normal or epic battleground as blazing barrier can be greatly enhanced by the use of the pvp talent."Fireheart" - which itself greatly increases the damage of blazing barrier. But this is somewhat useful at the start of any pve or pvp encounter where you can change specs in a party.