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mmo-champion says the patch is coming out today, though they say it's not official, so I don't know why they would say that, but anyway...edit: there is a screenshot on mmo champion which shows that the patch goes live today. :)

There are 5 mages in my guild, and basically there are 2 learning from the other two of us who top the charts most of the time. We're all FFB, with only very slighly different builds. The top dps mage comes on a little while before the server goes down and announces that FFB is no longer going to be top dps and that she will be spec'ing arcane. :) I told her to focus her magic on me, because I was going to be taking her spot as #1. One of the other mages said that one of us should go ahead and spec frost, to which I agreed, because then I'd have to press fewer buttons, and he could stop having to be scorch *****.

All the silliness aside, and I know there's only been a little bit of testing so far, but are any of you going to be specing into the FB/arc spec? Or changing anything at all?

I'm going to stick with what I have for now, because I think using Power Auras is going to increase my dps, which is adequate for what we're doing, but it will be interesting to see what our top mage will do.

What about you?

Edited, Jan 20th 2009 6:19am by Trilliandent

10% from Arcane concentration can't be too bad, right? Just missing the 3% from Precision. Then again, I guess FB costs more than FFB to begin with, so it'll definitely be noticeable.



Stable? If we wanted stable, we would have rolled a DoT class. RNG away, bay-bee.

That rotation is terrible. And please don't double space every single line or whatever, it's really annoying to read.

That being said, yes, slow is a dps loss because of the GCDs. In 3.08 that won't matter because there will be slowing effects (thunderclap etc) on the boss which works for TtW.

58/3/10 is a viable spec, but then again you are using FB which I don't understand why.

http://elitistjerks.com/f75/

Check out the upcomming mage changes thread, there is a lot of talk in there about arcane rotations and also in the 175 page thread about 3.08 talent discussion.

Thank you for fixing the previous post.


I apologize if I came off as an *** in my response to you, it wasn't meant to be stated in such a way to have that feeling.

Yeah, the new "Arcane shatter" is brand new in 3.08 making arcane much more viable and such, but will depend heavily on having a consistent latency I would say.

I agree with your about the frost channelling. Granted if one is going into deep arcane it is possible to have a heavy arcane + frost build, but most end at 11 in frost to get icy veins, otherwise you are giving up too many good arcane talents for the arcane spells.

Dummies are one thing, I would wait until you get a chance with raid buffs (or at least theorycraft it with Rawr or simulcraft).

I've already made my switch... to shadow priest (but no more on that front incase Poldaran Karma-camps me :P)

I think I may go back to frost on my mage, she'll probably only be needed for 10mans, and then either alt runs or decursing/dealing with adds. I think for add duty frost will be much more use, but from an overall dps view I realise it's not going to be anything special.

I did try arcane on the test realm, but it just wasn't as fun as I was expecting it to be (I did try it pre-wrath in BT and for some reason I liked it more then than I do now, even though it's essentially the same).

I orginally was an arcane mage...I switched to FFB spec cause arcane wasnt cutting it for raids in naxx. Last night I went back to Arcane Spec and I was in 2-3rd place most of the night. darn Shadowpriest and there broken dps :P Arcane is rather fun :P . was getting crit missle hits of 3-4k a piece for over 15k damage and I was getting arcane barrage and blast crits for over 10k. never ran out of mana..had gems and evocation(2min Cd)I never had to use a mana pot. I loved arcane before, but I am really loving it now and I can raid with it too

http://wowwebstats.com/5fgxzximmhub1


That's our WWS from 25 Naxx tonight. Saiyan was FFB last week and did 2911 DPS and went arcane this week. Yalla is still FFB. Saiyan seemed to like arcane for this run and it did help his overall DPS.

I made the switch =), was kinda getting tired of how rng is such a big part of ffb's dps.
Went on a 25 naxx later on that night, and...i think i did great, using the ab x3 then arcane barrage with the usual missile barrage. I thought it would be heavy on mana, but i did totally fine with molten armor on and with evocation's 2 min cd..it is fun...can almost get 3 burn phase on bosses (the ab/pom/iv/trinket/gem)

I kinda like the fact that arcane doenst' so heavy on crit...hated i was 500+ dps before i was having bad luck =(

but over all, is fun.... seeing barrage can crit 10k+ =3

Edited, Jan 22nd 2009 8:00am by ocolloco

- Raid buffs = Sick Dpm.
- 25 Vault posted last night 2563 DPS #5 on meters and 8 in total Damage fully raid buffed, Mage Armor, Elixir of SP, Elixer of spirit, Blackend Basilisk for mp5 and focus magic on a boomkin :D Didn't have to Evo once.
- Able to spam AB when necessary to beat the enrage.
Got outrolled for Tier Chest by the only other mage on the run; wearing 4 pieces of Heroes Frostfire. -_- Did 10 man after got my gloves. I love when i pop Pom, get back to back Forge ember and and sundial procs hit over 3k SP and crit for 16k, happy yes. can it get more sick, definately.

- in 5's this week averaged around 2100 DPS in Heroics, Mage armor, Tender Shoveltusk, no elixers.
- I'll have to get web stats to post the proof this week.

Edited, Jan 23rd 2009 1:06pm by lardcoma