Folks;
Okay.... so with 2.3 they removed the damage nerf. Since our guild wanted to try ZA, we were going to 'burn' through Kara last night. So, let's all spec our most dps spec (I went 10/48/3). I have 945 +damage unbuffed, buffed with raid stuff and pots it was around 1040. Okayyyyy, first boss, I get 1 shotted during a random charge by Attunman. Okay, Moroes dies just fine. I'm topping the meters, but finding that my threat is unbelievably high. We have 2 pallies in the group and so I have both BoW and BoSalv, but my threat is still through the roof. So, my typical fight was:
1) Wait for tank to be at 5K threat
2) Wind up a pyroblast (give them extra time to get even more aggro)
3) Fireball, ad nauseum
So, not even my best damage rotation... I still had to use invisibility every time it was up and occasionally had to stop dpsing all together. The Maiden fight was a blessing as she stuns you for 10 seconds... gives the tank time to keep aggro, but I even had to use invisibility there! Curator is much different, nuked him. But all in all, I found my threat now to be a hideous thing.
I outgear most of my guild as I came from a guild that was doing SSC to a guild who was in Kara. I have almost every item I need from Kara, but the heroic badges were *the shizzle*.
Now, my question...
Do I try to spec arcane for the threat reduction, albeit mana problems will exist, but at least mana problems don't get me 1 shotted...?
On Lhivera's Theorycraft site, the threat of a standard fireball/scorch rotation for my gear/stats is: 875 Threat/Sec and for the arcane build rotation (ABx3, AM, scorch (if needed)) is 577 Threat/Sec. This is what lead me down this path to begin with. Too bad the MSD and LC nerf will really show their ugly heads with that build...