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PVE: fireball fire spec vs frostfire spec
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Ethiery
Wow, this question gets asked so much. I'm just gonna keep this chart around.
Once you've reached full hit cap with any of the specs, generally it goes...
FB-Arc-FFB.
As of late, I've seens ome FFB doing better in Ulduar. Specially with trinkets like "Eye of the Broodmother" which seem tastey, but really aren't very friendly for Arcane mages in the end.
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OscarDivine
My own experimentation shows that (and this is only anecdotal evidence) in low to mid-ranged gear that most raiders will be in, Fireball TTW does significantly more damage than Frostfire.
I've done my best to itemize my gear properly, I'm fully hit capped for either spec, and I have about 1800 SP unbuffed. My crit % chance for Fire (not counting for scorch, glyphed fireball, Focus Magic or other raid buffs) sits at 36% give or take 0.5% and I'm in almost full ilvl 200-213 gear (missing head piece and wand).
For my "bracket", repeated testing given the same or similar raid (no differences to favor one spec over the other), I find that Fire overtakes FFB build by a factor of 800+ DPS.
Now at my level of gearing, this may be the case, but FFB likely catches up as gear improves (as FFB does scale well). According to Mathron, it still does not overtake Fire/TTW.
Just a msg for all of us non-uber-Ulduar-geared-with-2-spriest-in-every-raid mages. ;-)
edited for spelling and grammar.
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