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Post by
CalaelenDT
Your rotation should be:
Arcane Blast x4 -> Arcane Missiles
If you can spare the mana, you can fish for a Missile Barrage if you don't have one after the 4th AB, but that's up to you. Do not use Arcane Barrage unless you need to move, as a regular AM is still better than ABarr.
Don't use Slow, your tank's Mangle does trigger Torment of the Weak, namely through the talent
Infected Wounds
. If he's not specced into it than he needs to learn how to spec.
Your spec is pretty bad, you seem to have specced for trash/AOE and not single target, which is why your trash/AOE DPS is so high and your single target DPS is lacking.
Change your spec to
this
, the 3 remaining points should be spend in either
Arcane Subtlety
or
Magic Attunement
.
Your hit rating is fine, the hit cap for Arcane Mages is 11%, or 289 hit rating, so your actually a little over the cap. If you raid with a Boomkin or Shadow Priest, than the cap is 8% or 210 hit rating, in which case your over it by a lot.
Your gear has no enchants, and your gems are bad. If your serious about your DPS, you should stop putting in Rare gems, and move over to Epic ones. They aren't that expensive, and you can buy them with Emblems meaning there's no excuse to not use them with the ease of acquiring Emblems these days.
Your gem choices aren't that great either, Mages don't gem for Stamina or Intellect, at all. Your Meta gem is also horrible and should be your top priority to replace.
Red: Runed Cardinal Ruby
Blue: Purified Dreadstone
Yellow: Reckless Ametrine
Meta: Chaotic Skyflare Diamond
You should have 2 Purified Dreadstones to trigger your Meta gem, no less, and no more unless your going for the Socket bonus on an item.
If the socket bonus is +7 SP or above, go for the bonus. If it's anything else than ignore the socket bonus and gem Runed Cardinal Rubies.
Replace the Forge Ember with the
Abyssal Rune
, Crit isn't very good for Arcane Mages, whereas the Rune is extremely good.
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Post by
Squishalot
popping your cooldowns after your AB's but before your MBAM is weird.. just pop them all at once as often as they're up (or wait if you know a bloodlust is coming or something).
Sorry to counter you, but that's not true. Your biggest DPS across the cycle comes from your 4 stack MBAM. Popping your cooldowns at that point therefore maximises the DPS increase (due to Arcane Power / Icy Veins), and ensures that you have at least 2 seconds of your high-damage, high-mana, 20% increased mana expense cycle costs zero mana from MBAM.
Assuming that your group saves Bloodlust for a burn phase, and you know the cooldowns will be back by then, you should pop them about 8 seconds into a fight, being after your first 4 ABs. Maybe 3 ABs if you're concerned about mana.
Even once your group pops Bloodlust, you can still afford to wait - Bloodlust lasts significantly longer than your cooldowns do, so you're going to have un-hasted, un-empowered spells being cast during Bloodlust, so you might as well wait a bit and maximise the DPS in the time your cooldowns are active.
Edit: Is this your bear tank?
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Moonrunner&cn=Grimara&gn=Death+Immortals
If so, he's got 2/3 Infected Wounds. I don't believe it's 'ideal', but it should still be enough to trigger TTW.
Oh, and tell your tank to get a 3rd glyph.
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Squishalot
Ahh, fair enough. I can't seem to find your druid tank, in that case, so I can't comment about whether you'll get the TTW bonus. However, I didn't think that Slow worked on most bosses.
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Post by
greywolfsage
Your gear appears to be lacking.
Why do you have greens in the weapon slots?
Seethe and Shivering Heart (Ward of the Violet Citadel is a badge option)
Or the Engraved Gargoyle Femur
Your wrist is a blue:
Bracers of Worn Molars
Your neck is a blue:
Loops of Arcane Anger (or something like that)
You have no boots, but you mentioned getting some.
^ all of the above can be found in the 5 man ICC (heroics mostly I believe)
You have no cloak, that can also be found via emblem vendor.
Your belt is a blue:
Plush Sash of Guzbah is a servicable emblem vendor one, 3 gem slots (including Belt Buckle)
Get Abyssal Rune trinket from ToC 5, excellent Arcane trinket.
Please tell me your missing stuff because you were doin' a run for $#!&-gigs and I just wasted my time rezzing this thread because I'm doped up on meds at too early in the mornin'.
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Post by
greywolfsage
I assume you mean the Wrathful Cloak of Subjugation?
My item info is a little out of date lol.
But any caster cloak is better than none.
Birthday comin'! Woo for my broke ass! Haven't played my mage in 6 months...
QQ
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Post by
Squishalot
Some people use Arcane Barrage because it's a fast way of trying to proc a Missile Barrage. It's certainly not cheaper.
Post by
greywolfsage
What does Arcane Blast have, like a 40% proc rate?
4 is normally all i need, and NIC is more for fire mages...
What a "unique" rotation.
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Squishalot
What does Arcane Blast have, like a 40% proc rate?
4 is normally all i need, and NIC is more for fire mages...
What a "unique" rotation.
It's still a 13% chance that it won't proc. AB5 reduces that to 7.8%. Not worth the mana cost though. The weird thing is the ABarr after AM.
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