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If you've actually looked into mage T8, you'll release it comes with a lot of crit and hit. Something that an arcane mage don't need a lot of.
I recommend 2pc T7.5 and 2pc T8.5 to maximize your haste.
Higher ilvl doesn't always mean it's an upgrade, you'll need to look at your spec too.
you don't think the overall increase to your spell power would be worth the being over hit capped? for instance.... the smallest increase in SP from one piece of t7.5 to t8.5 is the head piece 15 spell power total.. (98 to 113)... if you're get all 5 pieces of t7.5 upgraded to all 5 pieces of t8.5, your overall SP increase would be 123 JUST from gear alone.. not counting sockets, enchants, etc... you don't think that would be worth it? so if you're a little over hit capped for arcane, you could.... say, drop a couple points from talents to make up for it.. there's nothing saying you HAVE to have all 3/3 in precision or something like that... in fact, i would say that being over hit capped in one area or another could actually open up a couple possibilites in your talent spec..
i'd rather drop a point or two from precision for something else than miss out on having such big SP increases over the other gear.
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you don't think the overall increase to your spell power would be worth the being over hit capped? for instance.... the smallest increase in SP from one piece of t7.5 to t8.5 is the head piece 15 spell power total.. (98 to 113)... if you're get all 5 pieces of t7.5 upgraded to all 5 pieces of t8.5, your overall SP increase would be 123 JUST from gear alone.. not counting sockets, enchants, etc... you don't think that would be worth it? so if you're a little over hit capped for arcane, you could.... say, drop a couple points from talents to make up for it.. there's nothing saying you HAVE to have all 3/3 in precision or something like that... in fact, i would say that being over hit capped in one area or another could actually open up a couple possibilites in your talent spec..
i'd rather drop a point or two from precision for something else than miss out on having such big SP increases over the other gear.
Rawr actually recommends to stay with 2pT7 for Arcane mages. :)
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Achloryn
you don't think the overall increase to your spell power would be worth the being over hit capped? for instance.... the smallest increase in SP from one piece of t7.5 to t8.5 is the head piece 15 spell power total.. (98 to 113)... if you're get all 5 pieces of t7.5 upgraded to all 5 pieces of t8.5, your overall SP increase would be 123 JUST from gear alone.. not counting sockets, enchants, etc... you don't think that would be worth it? so if you're a little over hit capped for arcane, you could.... say, drop a couple points from talents to make up for it.. there's nothing saying you HAVE to have all 3/3 in precision or something like that... in fact, i would say that being over hit capped in one area or another could actually open up a couple possibilites in your talent spec..
i'd rather drop a point or two from precision for something else than miss out on having such big SP increases over the other gear.
Rawr actually recommends to stay with 2pT7 for Arcane mages. :)
eh. i typed that on my laptop at work last night, which doesn't have rawr on it..
but really.. t7 over t8.5? /runs to rawr..
edit: sonofab@#$!... shoulders and leggings it's got both t7.5 and t7 over t8.5 and t8... wow..
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eh. i typed that on my laptop at work last night, which doesn't have rawr on it..
but really.. t7 over t8.5? /runs to rawr..
edit: sonofab@#$!... shoulders and leggings it's got both t7.5 and t7 over t8.5 and t8... wow..
I think the logic is that you'd only need 2pT8 anyway. 4pT8 just isn't that useful to an Arcane mage.
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eh. i typed that on my laptop at work last night, which doesn't have rawr on it..
but really.. t7 over t8.5? /runs to rawr..
edit: sonofab@#$!... shoulders and leggings it's got both t7.5 and t7 over t8.5 and t8... wow..
I think the logic is that you'd only need 2pT8 anyway. 4pT8 just isn't that useful to an Arcane mage.
Even as a fireball mage - if you can get hardmode gear, it's a little silly to get 4pc.
The difference is 5 less dps for a 2pc set, but then you're not going to have problems with proc management and "hot streak" refreshing itself (don't laugh, it happens to me now at times even if I'm perfect - 3rd fireball is casting when 2nd lands, hot streak. before 3rd fireball finishes casting living bomb 're-procs' hot streak).
We'll see how this works out in practice, but it's something to consider.
that just sounds intense.. and yet all kinds of fun.. since LB explosions proc hot streaks i find myself with issues with it on occasion myself, but not very often.
it's a good problem to have, i would say.
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