Switched to fire (2/48/11) for practice and ran Heroic Shatterd Halls to get ready for the Archimonde fight since I won't be able to keep the AB up during that fight. I remember why I don't like fire. Threat is a much bigger issue with fire than with Arcane, at least for me and my DPS is lower. I do have 2 pieces of T5 Gear. Gloves and Pants. I sapped those out for the Badge Gloves and Pants with my switch. I can regularly get 1000+ dps, but I hovered around 860 with Fire. Part of that was due to me having to stop more often due to threat. Is this a problem that other people have? I am normally 40/0/21.
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Heroics aren't always the greatest indication of whether or not you have a problem. Often times when your tank outgears the instance (unless its a pally) he'll have much more difficulty holding aggro than he would on a raid boss. You should be alright in a regular raid because the main tank will be able to dish out plenty of TPS.
Remember: Archimonde isn't a dps fight, it is a survival fight. Most people will be showing up (or should) with stam gear and their pvp trinkets with them so that they don't die as easily as one death can easily lead to an entire wipe.
Like somnus said. Heriocs aren't a great judge of dps. And arcane will have its way with fire in terms of dps in a 5man, because the short length of every fight, and the same with trash.
But yes, fire does generate a lot more threat, so you have to keep your eyes on omen many times. Make best use of invis.
But yes, fire does generate a lot more threat, so you have to keep your eyes on omen many times. Make best use of invis.
We're working on the fight with a rogue tanking Archimonde in dodge gear. He puts out more than enough threat for me to do the DPS I need to while running around avoiding fires, blinking out of air bursts like an ace and whack-a-moling my decurse mod.
Why did you guys decide on using a Rouge? We are using our Bear Tank for Archimonde. I really really really hate deep fire. I guess I'll just spam ice lance and do POM/AB and frostbolt when I can. Going through all the other bosses in Hyjal as fire will be a royal pain. With my Arcane build I have gotten up to 14006 Intellect raid buffed. I will also get coldsnap which will give me two ice-blocks in case of emergency. Fire would probably work better, but this is a case where I think that my dislike of it would lead to it actually performing worse.
probably did a rogue because he shouldn't be taking much damage at all, and if he gets cursed/fired he can CoS it.
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