Hi everyone,
I really only PvE and I always duo with a Protection Warrior of the same level.
One day while browsing the AH, I spotted several "of Arcane Wrath" items, which had pretty hefty +damage modifiers.
This interested me, so I ran and re-specced full arcane to try them out. Seems pretty good, but I notice that full Arcane builds are genrally met with skepticism by many people. Here are my questions/observations:
1) I realize that Arcane is more mana intensive than the other trees and that this seems to be one of the major complaints. However, isn't that fact offset by the Empowered Arcane Missles talent, adding +45% of your bonus damage, also the 40% threat reduction from Arcane Subtlety is very attractive and lets me go full out DPS quite early in the fight, even using Arcane Power. Finally, Arcane Focus makes my Missles hit more reliably. Does this not offset the increased cost?
2) This one is more of a direct question: You get a full Spirit every 6 sec while not casting, right? Does the time while your missles are channeling count as casting or not casting? If not casting, don't you basically get a full tic of mana back during each spell casting? If so, you could effectively reduce the cost of Arcane Missles by this amount. If I'm wrong, then I have egg on my face and I apologize to all for my ignorance.
3) It seems to me that very few mobs have a resistance/immunity to Arcane damage.
4) The Talent Arcane Potency really shines with the Arcane Missles spell, virtually assuring, in tandem with your base crit %, that at least 2 of your missles will crit.
These are just a few things I was thinking right now. I've been having what I feel is decent success with Full Arcane so far. Doing very good damage, just spamming AM in Maraudon and Zul Farrak. I don't have access to a damage meter, but it seems good.
What I'd really like to do, is to try and really flesh out Full Arcane and make it work. I will likely end up adding fire, just to get Pyroblast so that I feel I am getting my money's worth out of PoM, but mostly going for 44/17/0 or 44/14/3.
In any event, please tell me what I'm missing about this Arcane Tree, it just seems too good to be true and I'm loving it so far.