TheChaosKnight wrote:
Am I talking out of my ***?
Not at all. For starting Kara I would be comfortable with 700ish damage going in. This number is unbuffed w/o arcane talents (if arcane talents are applicable). Exiting Kara you will want closer to 900 as your work into Gruul/Mag and Loot Reaver/SSC. (Raiding these with only 700 unbuffed damage means you are mostly there for cc and won't be very high on the damage chart)
I wasn't preaching Spell Hit in this thread is b/c he seems to have that understanding (his armory shows 150 spell hit), so I didn't feel it necessary to go into that. As fire spell hit>spell damage>spell crit/spell haste (imo, but the haste is debatable).
As for consumables, I don't use any in Kara b/c they aren't really needed for the group I run with (pushing my fire damage over 1200 is kind of overkill for that raid). I will bring a stack of blackened basilisk and be good for the raid (maybe some wizard oil too).
The main reason I didn't bring any of these up is b/c he was only asking if he was ready to move to the 2/48/11 spec or not. I'm guessing if he knows the main raiding fire mage spec and importance of spell hit, he has also been perusing the mage forum enough to know about spell rotation, and his guild seems advanced enough to let him know what consumables he should be bringing.