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Confusion w/ Arcan Raid
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danroe
Now, if I understand it correctly, the rotation for Arcane Raid is just ABx3 and AM if I proc, otherwise I cast AB and repeat.
You obviously did not understand it.
=> AB => AB => AB => AM, else ABarr => Repeat
About your stats, you want to get your hitcap first. Then, stack Spellpower and haste. MP5 and Spirit are almost useless for mages.
Also, i've noticed. Your hat does not have a meta socket. Get either Cowl of Vanity, Gothik's Cowl, T7-T7,5 head or even Hat of Wintry doom and slap a Chaotic Skyflare diamond. Yes, it is THAT important.
Also, get your gear enchanted.
Cloak should have Haste
Gloves should have 28 SP
You could get Bracers with 30 SP
Boots should have Icewalker (+12 Hit/Crit)
And lastly, the pendulum of teluric turrents does not seem a great trinket for me... I'd reccomend farming OS 25 for the Ilustration of the Dragonsoul or Naxx 10 for Embrace of the Spider.
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Darkwraith01
First of all, change your professions. You want 2 of the three: Tailoring, Enchanting and Jewelcrafting. The reason for that is the profession-unique embroidery/jewels/enchants you can get. I would go with JC + Tailoring (the lightweave embroidery gives you 350 spellpower for 15 sec, and it procs all the time!)
About your spec, if you go Arcane, you need:
Get hit capped (268). If you always have a boomkin or shadow priest, then you are ok as it is now.
Stack haste (500's) and mana. Don't worry about spirit and Molten Armor. You'll need to keep Arcane Armor up, otherwise your mana will run dry in under 1 minute.
Stack Spellpower. Always. Spellpower = damage, period.
As you get better gear (Naxx 25 + some Uld 10 + Uld 25), go from Arcane to FB/TTW. It simply owns!
As for rotations, these are the best rotations:
Normal casting situation: AB => AB => AB => AM, else ABarr => Repeat
When you blow all your cooldowns: AB => AB => AB => AM, else AB => Repeat
When really low in mana: AB => AB => ABarr
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danroe
This rotation will run you mana dry. ABx3=>AM and Repeat is best. you sacrifice minimal dps for more longevity.
I don't see why ABx3 => AM is more mana efficient than ABx3 => ABarr.
AM costs 900 mana. ABarr costs 500 mana.
Now, people will argue that with AM you get 5 seconds, so you get a full MP5 tick. Well, sadly NOT because you're not taking Netherwind Pressence/haste into account!.
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Darkwraith01
The ONLY time I am casting Arcane barrage is in a movement dependent fight i.e. Hodir......I am spamming Arcane blast till the arcane missile proc and never wasting my three stacks on arcane barrage. I have around 22k mana pool and am ulduar 10 man geared and I rarely have mana issues if I have up my Mage armor and use my gems and evocate wisely. I pull 5k dps in 10 man raids and around 6k in 25 man. Even if I use molten armor I just throw in a frostfire bolt if im running OOM, but rarely does that need to be done.
Please, link me your toon. 5k
constant
dps in Ulduar 10 gear! I want to see it! 6k dps?
Post by
Pens1566
This rotation will run you mana dry. ABx3=>AM and Repeat is best. you sacrifice minimal dps for more longevity.
I don't see why ABx3 => AM is more mana efficient than ABx3 => ABarr.
AM costs 900 mana. ABarr costs 500 mana.
Now, people will argue that with AM you get 5 seconds, so you get a full MP5 tick. Well, sadly NOT because you're not taking Netherwind Pressence/haste into account!.
The reason that its lower mana cost is because its 5 seconds you're not stacking up uber expensive 2nd/3rd casts of AB.
900 < 500 + AB + AB
Don't believe it, theres a thread for it over at EJ.
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