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Specs for 3.1:

FB/TTW
19/52/0: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#of0Vcd0cZ0EcbRhIhVhbhct:LiV0om
Reason for Student of the Mind > Combustion (And why combustion is bad now): http://elitistjerks.com/f75/t42476-optimal_sets_item_discussion/p10/#post1187177

Arcane/IV
57/3/11: work in progress (still looking into student of the mind changes to see if it is worth picking up)

FFB
0/53/18 (or similar) still the standard as far as I know.


Glyphs
Fireball/Frostfire:
Living Bomb > Fireball/Frostfire > Molten Armor > Scorch
Arcane:
Arcane Blast > Arcane Missiles > Molten Armor


Edited, Apr 21st 2009 3:23pm by Anobix

I don't really know what the trash make-up is and if there is any CC required. If we go back to single-target it will most likely be arcane because of their very fast burst, if AoE frostfire or frost would win because of blizzard (or frostfire with double layer flamestrike + blizzard)

The gist would be to have 1 spec that is standard FFB spec, and have 1 spec that is arcane or arcane/fire (that will have focus).

Switch to the arcane-ish spec, pop focus on a target, switch back to FFB and have at it.

I will probably go arcane and FFB as my two specs.

You can double layer flamestrike? I've been doing FS + Blizzard on bigger trash pulls. If I can throw two down, it'll be ridiculous, haha.

Anobix, I decided to play around with the typical 57/3/11 Arcane spec with the increase need for spirit now. Would you mind looking at my spec from my link to the armory in my sig and tell me what you think?

So I tried out a version of the fire/FFB AOE rotation suggested by EJ:
Living Bomb, Dragons Breath, (instant) Flamestrike, Frost Nova, Blastwave, (instant) Flamestrike, blizzard till cooldowns are up

It does plenty of damage! Is it really necessary though, do people do this? It uses a ton of mana, and I would rather keep the raid moving and not have to sit fights out drinking and worrying about using my evocate close to the boss than be king of the trash.

Thanks! I seem to recall you posting Arcane raiding builds before without slow in them, so I didn't think it was a good idea, but I definitely can see how it would be useful with grinding. I've considered using slow in the past, so I may do that.

EDIT: I don't know why, but the armory has my build from before the patch up. I actually put all 3 points into SotM, and took out the AM pushback points, and one of the points from the range talent. Other than that I didn't really make any changes.

Edited, Apr 15th 2009 7:54pm by PigtailsOfDoom

updated for 3.1.1

Really no real changes, they supposidly fixed the focus magic buff 'creative use of dual spec' so the top dps spec went back to Fire/TTW