End game mage armorFollow

The only really good one that mages have gotten was the t4, which, although plain upon first inspection, turns out to really bring out the inner color of mages. I like the season 1 glad best, red aldor set.

I guess t5 isnt bad either, but it's just that it's got bad shoulderpads, it all depends on the shoulders.

The rest? t1 - cancer cell-look, t2 - plain, t3 - too messed up, t6 - ***** hed?

But yeah, if you want my advice, reroll a warlock.

I rerolled a rogue and that was the best idea ever. I was stressing over my keybinds as a mage, getting a 5-buttoned mouse, changing my movement keys to TFGH (FLBR) just to get more space.

But yes, i still love the mage class, armor sets are horribly designed? Agreed. Will we get better looking sets the next time round? Well, judging from 6 tier armor sets, a few non-set armors, a few dungeon armor sets and .5 armor sets, warlord sets, gladiator sets, and none of that even surpasses a 5/10 rating...

No, we probably wont be seeing a nicely designed mage set anytime soon.

Omg, how does this post relate to 'rerolling'seriously mages own, if your not skilled GET SKILLED :P (rouges are are a piece of **** if your good enough)



Do you just press 2 buttons as a rouge?

Edited, Apr 16th 2008 1:41am by Seguris

I love how the design for new tier gear lost all its pride.
t,2,3 were great and said something, even the mages.
t4,5,6 not even close to coolness. Then on top of that, so glad they just changed the color and made it pvp gear too. I agree mages usually have the worst looking gear, but so far in TBC everyone is losing there garb appeal. Maybe there just waiting untill gear is as hard to obtain again before making it shout again.

My fave mage armors have been T5 and T6 is starting to grow on me... maybe because I have the helm now :-)

Mages need to face it, other than the 4-piece t5 and 4-piece t6 our set bonuses are terrible.

Actually the set bonuses aren't bad at all. Just pointless. The 2 peice T4 bonus is really good, but of no use for what the set is intented to do. The 2 piece T5 is really good, if just going fire wasn't a better option.

Basicly the bonuses no longer help out the mechanics of a mage. But once again that's due to how mages are set up. The bonuses help out a certian spec more then others. "5% more shadow damage" will help out a lock no matter what spec they are.

Plus mages have changed so much that what was good then may not be good now. When TBC came out mana wasn't as much of a issue as it is now (note: AS MUCH). Would I give up the 2 peice T5 bonus in place of say a MP15? Sure I would. But that wasn't the case 8 months ago.

But while sittin around today with a cold I thought about my last comment a little bit and here's what I came up with. Three different tier sets for fire, arcane, and frost. You can use your imaganation for how they would look. All the sets would have +spell damage (not +fire, ect). Fire would have some dropped +int for more crit. Arcane would have less crit but lots more +int. Frost would be in the middle of the two. Set bonuses could be lots of useful things. Some MP10, mana back on crit, haste, dots, casting time... hell, make the 4 peice arcane T6 be like a built in MSD.

I dunno, I think I just want some armor that makes me look like i'm always on fire.

Say what you want about mage armor sets, but you can't say that T6/S3 helms are unrecognizable. The helm is, as they say in the OOT, HUEG LIEK XBOX.

Priest T6 is hands down the best-looking set (about time, tired of looking like a faerie), followed closely by Judgement. I think Blizzard is limited to one awesome set per expansion, with a few good sets following, and a majority of ones that make you want to laugh (pally T4, T5, T6 anyone?).
Mage and warlock T6 helms both look ridiculous. T5 looks a lot better for both of them, unfortunately.


2pT5 still has some interest in guilds not yet at 4pT6 level. Between a shammy, JoW, a shadow priest, full consumables, and the change to regen, a 40/0/21 mage should be able to chain AB for 90-120 seconds straight before switching over to Fbolt/AB rotations, which is damn good burst damage. Especially once you have fights down and you are spending more than half the fight chaining AB.

Warlocks have always looked good in their Tier sets, and warriors have for the latter half. Priests now have a distinct coolness, while druids and shamans had ups and downs. Pallies have always been laughingstock (except for the fricken' best-looking gear in the game, Tier 2 Judgment), etcetera.

Mages have had... recognizable... armor. It's distinct and different, but it's also not...

cool.


They've silly hats. Tier 4 and 5, while appropriate-looking, are not spectacular like the the most recent priest sets and the amazing warlock sets. Mages aren't as stupid-looking as paladins in Tier gear, but they could use a set that really shows off their stuff. A fiery set always burning, or a chilling blue set that has a blue mist always being given off at the feet (think Skeletal Warhorse haze), that would be pretty neat.



But this is all just aesthetics. The set bonuses need to be looked at, sure.

But good gear usually has good looks to match.