As the thread title says, I'm hoping you all can give me some pointers as to where to go next. In looking at my toon, I get the significant feeling that my stats are low. My armory is here.
Back when I made my spellfire set, I gemmed it with matching colors to sockets. I now know that I didn't have to do that, so what should I regem and with what gems? Should I focus on spell hit or damage?
Any advice you can give is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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your stats are low, but im guessing you just recently hit 70? and had the mats saved up for your spellfire stuff? your gems looks fine, remember until your hit capped +spell hit will give you more dmg than +dmg will (well at least in raids). First thing i would work on is your weapon... it sucks lol. buy the s1 staff or get revered with Keepers of Time, or exalted with HH for their 1h swords. and throw +40 spell dmg on it if you've got the mats/ gold. also your shoulders make me want to cry... lol pretty sure my mage had those at like lvl 62... Unfortunately for us mages, we don't really have too many options for shoulders. Get your s1 shoulders or the ones off Shade of Aran. other than those I can't really think of other options until you're into gruuls' for t4 shoulders or beyond. better rings will come in time, just keep running stuff. All i can think of atm
What do you do with your mage, do you raid? do you have hopes of raiding? That could make a difference what you want. I'm going to give my input under the assumption you want to be raiding.
When it comes to stats.
1. Spell Hit till capped (fire cap is around 142ish?)
2. Spell dmg
3. Spell Crit
4. Spell Haste
Thats the way i prioritize my fire gear, many theory crafters put spell haste above spell dmg. Spell haste is great, but make sure you not losing to much of another stat to get it in there.
As for Gemming. Gemming is a good way to help a gimping stat. you have mostly +hit and +stam in your gemming. For a Mage, i would try to lean to +hit till capped, then +dmg. The stam is nice, considering crafted gear carry's very little stamina, but you really could use more +dmg.
yellow: 4crit/5dmg or the 4hit/5dmg
blue: 5dmg/6stam
Red: 9dmg
i only follow socket colors when the set bonus is worth it in dmg, usualy +5splldmg its worth it to follow the gem colors. Dont forget though, your not at spell hit, as you get more gear that carries spell hit, you can think to replace the gems you do have for more dmg.
Also the 2/48/11 spec though good for raiding, requires a considerable amount of spell damage to sit on. You might see in increase in your damage output, if you switched to an arcane/fire build Untill you get closer to 800spell dmg with gear.
Keep running those H.MgT's if possible they carry a few upgrades for you in there, Main Hand, shoulders. and i would definetly reccomend getting the new badge ring.
When it comes to stats.
1. Spell Hit till capped (fire cap is around 142ish?)
2. Spell dmg
3. Spell Crit
4. Spell Haste
Thats the way i prioritize my fire gear, many theory crafters put spell haste above spell dmg. Spell haste is great, but make sure you not losing to much of another stat to get it in there.
As for Gemming. Gemming is a good way to help a gimping stat. you have mostly +hit and +stam in your gemming. For a Mage, i would try to lean to +hit till capped, then +dmg. The stam is nice, considering crafted gear carry's very little stamina, but you really could use more +dmg.
yellow: 4crit/5dmg or the 4hit/5dmg
blue: 5dmg/6stam
Red: 9dmg
i only follow socket colors when the set bonus is worth it in dmg, usualy +5splldmg its worth it to follow the gem colors. Dont forget though, your not at spell hit, as you get more gear that carries spell hit, you can think to replace the gems you do have for more dmg.
Also the 2/48/11 spec though good for raiding, requires a considerable amount of spell damage to sit on. You might see in increase in your damage output, if you switched to an arcane/fire build Untill you get closer to 800spell dmg with gear.
Keep running those H.MgT's if possible they carry a few upgrades for you in there, Main Hand, shoulders. and i would definetly reccomend getting the new badge ring.
Heroic MGT and Kara runs for you buddy. If it's a upgrade... get it. And get the spellfire legs to finish off you "5 peice set". If you can score the mindblade off of prince that would be nice.. or the blade from gruuls if your guild happens to be in there. S1 weps if you really can't run anything. Shoulders from heroic MGT, Shade in Kara, or even the ones from the first boss in Arc if you really really can't get either of those (or T4).
As a mage your in luck due to being able to get spellfire/spellstrike right off the bat. Most people would let you run/raid with them with just those.
Good luck and enjoy :)
As a mage your in luck due to being able to get spellfire/spellstrike right off the bat. Most people would let you run/raid with them with just those.
Good luck and enjoy :)
Thanks for all the help, appreciate it!
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And get the spellstrike legs to finish off you "5 peice set".
FTFY
For shoulders, if all else fails, s1 shoulders are decent until the MgT ones drop.
Edited, Apr 24th 2008 12:58pm by Mhog
Mhog wrote:
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And get the spellstrike legs to finish off you "5 peice set".
FTFY
For shoulders, if all else fails, s1 shoulders are decent until the MgT ones drop.
Edited, Apr 24th 2008 12:58pm by Mhog
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?source=live;witem=32587 is another option if you have plenty of gold. Can be hard to find, though.
Edited, Apr 25th 2008 11:56pm by Poldaran
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