When to switch from 2/48/11 to 40/0/21Follow

As the topic states, when do i do this? I KNOW if i had 2 pieces of t5 id be all over it.

Armory = http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Arygos&n=Zisikpus

Ok so given my current gear level, should i switch to 40/0/21 (or something else if there is a better arcane spec especially since frost damage is down from arcane). Take the gear and drop the +hit gems for +spell damage gems because of the arcane talent of course. I know of Man out of Time but I couldn't figure out how to do hypothetical.

I know of the pitfalls of arcane being mana troublesome but id rather be going oom with 2 minutes left in a fight than have 1/2 a bar of mana at the end of one.

Thanks in advance

2pieceT5 give it a go. Its fun, change of beat and difficult.

Do your daily's, because all gold earned will be put into mana potions. I went through more mana pots as arcane in one raid night than in 2 months as fire.

Get friendly with your druids so they give you the innervates instead of healers.

Think about avoiding/declicking heroisms at times and/or use evocation at those times.

If your the only raiding fire mage, and you have fire warlocks, recongnize your gimping there dps by having no more scorch debuff.

Use Flame Caps and Destruction Potions as Fire if mana is no issue.


With no spirit gear you'll be going OOM in the first 2 minutes of the fight my friend, not the last two. Get your hands on as much spirit gear as you can, a shadow priest and a shammy if you can. And thats just to make the spec possible, playing it well is even harder than aquiring the gear to make it happen.

Even with everything going against you, i'd still recommend at least trying the switch, its fun and a great learning expierence. Gives a great understanding of the talent trees. Just recognize you may find yourself going back to fire to avoid the headache that arcane is.

Edited, Jul 8th 2008 10:41pm by CalenciaBlue

Edited, Jul 8th 2008 10:42pm by CalenciaBlue

If you don't have a shadowpriest I would not recommed going into this, I guess if you are doing the 2xAB + AM + Scorch that could be a bit more efficient, but still difficult to do. If I do arcane blast spam (without any regen besides mage armor) I go oom in about 30 seconds.

To counter the point you made in your original post: Knowing that you have 1/2 bar at the end means that you went as hard as you could the entire time (if you used destruction potions and flame caps instead of mana pots/mana gems). If you can honestly say that, then good for your guild giving you the mana regen, but in my T6 content as 2/48/11 unless I have a shadow priest I am pretty much chain popping both of those potions/gems to not run oom then evocating back up to full (hopefully).

Edited, Jul 9th 2008 9:30am by Anobix

I never completly regemmed my entire gear set. But the little i played with +int enchants and +int gems, i decided it wasn't worth sacking the +dmg. When there were no +dmg enchants or what not, i went for spirit/mp5.

I knew a pally who had 17000-18000mana and over 2k in heals. If you can hit that mana pool with still a respectible amount of +dmg, then i can see it being worth it. But i dont.
I dont think the loss in dmg, will be worth the increase in mana.

Raid buffed of course.