Magenslayer wrote:
One thing to figure in is raid buffs. If you look at my armory right now I have something like 350 mp5 outside of casting, 210 while casting. It's amazing how big a role buffs play, because last night at fathom-lord I had about 350+ mp5 while casting.
This coupled with a shadow priest, chain chugging pots/gems means you can spend alot of time spamming AB without mana problems. I did 1350 dps on Fathom-Lord and I admittedly screwed up, didn't end the fight with 0 mana. Had a full bar of mana around 20% and spammed AB with cooldowns endlessly and I couldn't use it all due to a few clearcasting procs and awesome mana regen. It's truly a spec that takes good judgement and practice, it's so much more fun than FBx7 Scorch.
Blessing of Wisdom, Blessing of Kings, Gift of the Wild, Divine Spirit, Elixir of Draenic Wisdom. That does sound like it would add up to a lot.
I just really want to know the mana viability for those who are under the T5 raiding line. I don't care much right now about the DPS nor even DPM, just how viable it is to go through a 3-, 5-, 8-minute boss fight spamming Arcane Blast without 1) chugging Mana Potions specifically, nor 2) having the support of Vampiric Touch, Mana Spring Totem, or Judgement of Wisdom. Is it possible to use AB-Spam to get at least 600 DPS (yep, really low) at the Kara level on a fight without the support of a specific class helping your mana?