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Achloryn
Arcane Barrage is very useful though, on those fights where you have to move from something or go somewhere, or when you're thorwn in the air. Having a second a half to run is not to be joked about. Also, once you master when to use Evocation and Mana Gems, and learn to avoid doing 4x Arcane Blasts (assuming you have decent gear) mana isn't such a big issue anymore. And, worst case scenario, beg for Innervate :p
agreed, ABarr is very useful... but it does take time to get used to the playing style of arcane spec, cause it's not like any of the previous accepted raiding specs.. nothing's ever been quite so mana intensive for mages.
ok dont mean to sound like an idiot, but i didnt give this a moments thought till reading this post,
with points in mana regen is the glyph of mage armour completly useless now? confirmed?
120% mana regen while casting sounds stupid, - or is it?
nah, it's something that's been discussed in detail, but it's not a stupid question.. it's actually a point of anger for a lot of us (where are you dant?). yes, glyphing mage armor is pointless if you've got 3/3 arcane meditation or 3/3 pyromaniac.. you can't get over 100% casting regen. the times that I could see mage armor glyph being useful is if you're specced frost for grinding or questing, since being frost doesn't have anything to offer you mana regen.
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Thurk
Also, if you have spirit on your gear, you can get about 9% crit bonus from a glyphed Molten Armor (with raid buffs).
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Post by
Achloryn
as an extensive raiding mage (arcane frost), i've tried quite a few diffrent rotation, depending on what im fighting at the moment. Here are a few examples:
raid boss; arc blast (3), arc barrage, arc missiles, arc barrage (wash, rinse repeat)!
why not put 3 stacks of ABl up every time? it's much more damaging than your rotation.
Nax trash; flame blast (top rank). Pom, flame blast ( second highest rank),blizzard. (it appears that elitist jerks is correct and the top two ranks of flame blast's dots do indead stack).
i'm guessing by flame blast you mean flamestrike? and isn't it like a ridiculous amount MORE mana to go to a lower rank of any spell now? that seems kinda wasteful, but i suppose to each his own.. the fact that the dot's stack is rather interesting actually.
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Achloryn
That trash rotation is correct assuming you can get flame strike to work correctly with it's
tiny radius and moving tanks
.
Okay, so honestly, i hadn't looked into the proper "trash rotation" for fire mages.. but that seems like a REALLY long rotation, and honestly I hate using flame strike for exactly the reasons that I put in bold.
Trash on DPS doesn't matter that much anyway, i'll just stick with blizzarding.. it's not as much overall damage, but it's instant, and it's radius is gigantic in comparison to flamestrike.
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