Arcane Torrent

Arcane Torrents are more legal than regular torrents.

Blood Elves are illegally downloading Arcane off the Internet!

A bit of useless knowledge here. But I didn't see it posted anywhere else.

On one of the blood elf starting quest, you are told to go out and "release" your arcane torrent. This sounds a bit confusing since the racial doesn't actually "release" anything outward. What they ARE releasing is there restraint to absorb all the magical energies around them for a split second. The torrent shows energy being pulled into the character. This is what causes silence for enemy's (should be for everything around you) since you are basically drawing magic out of them for a second. You're not releasing anything into them.

And the reason for a cool down is the blood elfs self control to not become an energy junky and turn into a wretched.

Like I said... Useless information