Post by Ethix
So I'm making the switch to arcane when the patch goes live. Figured I'd make a post to help those wanting to make the switch and/or give some quick tips on rotations. Stacking spirit and int isn't as necessary as it was in 2.4 for 2pt5 builds, but having some spirit would be advisable. In raids, you need to be in a resto shamans/s priest group, and if you can have judge wisdom and innervates.
For the build, I'll be using:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=of0Vck0IzxGu0xedfVczo0hYou can put the one point wherever you would like. Notice I don't pick up imp. scorch. This is because in 25 mans there will more than likely be another mage with it, or in my case in 10 and 25 mans.
Glyphs: molten armor, arcane blast, and mage armor/evocation/arcane power (choice is yours here).
You'll always want to use missle barrage whenever you get it, and your rotations will look like this:
high dpm: arcane blast x1 -> arcane barrage
normal rotation: arcane blast x3 -> arcane barrage
burn rotation: only arcane blast
Post by nickseng
So I'm making the switch to arcane when the patch goes live. Figured I'd make a post to help those wanting to make the switch and/or give some quick tips on rotations. Stacking spirit and int isn't as necessary as it was in 2.4 for 2pt5 builds, but having some spirit would be advisable. In raids, you need to be in a resto shamans/s priest group, and if you can have judge wisdom and innervates.
For the build, I'll be using:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=of0Vck0IzxGu0xedfVczo0hYou can put the one point wherever you would like. Notice I don't pick up imp. scorch. This is because in 25 mans there will more than likely be another mage with it, or in my case in 10 and 25 mans.
Glyphs: molten armor, arcane blast, and mage armor/evocation/arcane power (choice is yours here).
You'll always want to use missle barrage whenever you get it, and your rotations will look like this:
high dpm: arcane blast x1 -> arcane barrage
normal rotation: arcane blast x3 -> arcane barrage
burn rotation: only arcane blast
I would've pulled 2 points from Mind Mastery into Arcane Flows.
Your normal rotation is ABx3 -> ABarr? You do know that ABx3 costs 1300 mana. For that rotation alone, is gonna cost you up to 2800 mana. I'm not sure how you're gonna keep that up.
And spamming AB for a burn rotation? Not only is that worse DPM and DPS than ABarr, it's gonna run you out of mana in seconds.
Some calculation;
AB no debuff = 262 mana
AB x 1 = 786
AB x 2 = 1310
AB x 3 = 1834
Time (s) Mana used
0:00 0
2:50 262
5:00 1048
7:50 2358
10:00 4192
12:50 6026
15:00 7860
...
...
30:00 18864
So assuming max mana of 20k, you're gonna be running out at approximately 32.5 seconds, all the while doing mediocre damage.
Better rotation would be AB-> ABarr as normal, and ABx3-> ABarr as burn
