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What exactly is a burn Phase for Arcane?
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neiljwd
Been reading up lots, various guides etc as a Fresh arcane 80, eg:
http://www.wowconfidential.com/class/mage/arcane-mage-raiding-guide-322-spec-glyphs-and-rotation/
All well and good, and they say during burn phases i should JUST AB... wtf is a burn phase?
I thought maybe with Icy Veins or Arcane Power up, but they last much shorter than his talked about Burn phase.
Basically I'm wondering to totally maximise my CD's as Arcane.
I have IC, AP, SP trinket, Engi Haste gloves enchant and Mirror Image al lto play/combine with :S
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neiljwd
OK cool, ty, Seem simple.
So I want to combine my CD's like melee, or stagger them?
Or should I try to have 1 SP + haste CD, and another SP+ haste CD
Or all 4 together?
Me if it helps
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Shadowsong&cn=Diaf
Obly been 80 3 days though.
Post by
Drefanator
Depends on your haste.
Right now you'll want to be able to pop ALL your cooldowns during the bloodlust/heroism. So if your raid is popping BL at the last 10% of the bosses health, then you'll probably want to pop your cooldowns at the beginning, so you'll have them again for the BL phase to maximise damage/dps.
This will hold true until you have so much haste that when you pop your cooldowns without BL or Icy veins that your cast time is below 1second, as this becomes wasted haste as you the GCD doesn't decrease below 1 second (or .8 seconds, whatever it is) So, what you'll want to do is stagger out your Icyveins, and but still pop everything but the icy veins during the Bloodlust, as this is when more than likely everyone will use abilities to help increase the raid/your dps.
I believe you need around 800 haste (before the 2pT10)for you to not be using Icy veins during bloodlust.
Oh, and remember to use Evocation in the last second of the Bloodlust/heroism, because the extra haste from that will still effect Evocation after Bloodlust fades.
edit: Holy crap, when you said you were 80 for only 3 days, I was expecting some greens and blues, not clearing up to rotface and mostly ICC gear. WTF?
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Drefanator
Probably an alt, guild-alt runs ftw. Skill >> gear you know =p, no need for 6k gs to clear up to rotface ;d
of course you don't need 6kgs for the first half of 10ICC, but 3 days and you're better geared then some people after 3 months. I'm impressed, and worried that I should have tried a bit harder =D.
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balu0
Been reading up lots, various guides etc as a Fresh arcane 80, eg:
http://www.wowconfidential.com/class/mage/arcane-mage-raiding-guide-322-spec-glyphs-and-rotation/
All well and good, and they say during burn phases i should JUST AB... wtf is a burn phase?
I thought maybe with Icy Veins or Arcane Power up, but they last much shorter than his talked about Burn phase.
Basically I'm wondering to totally maximise my CD's as Arcane.
I have IC, AP, SP trinket, Engi Haste gloves enchant and Mirror Image al lto play/combine with :S
Most of your questions was already answered, so I will add just a little tip that will gain you dps.
Pre-poti, ie. drink a potion just before the pull, while still out of combat, the cd on the potion will come back during fight and you can drink another one. Wild magic, haste, something.
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neiljwd
Ah what a truly informative topic. Some good tips and explanations.
And yeah I pimped my mage out 5k GS minutes after turning 80 :-D
I've run heroics SO many times that i couldn't face running them over and over and over again to gear the mage up.
And I'm not actually in a raiding guild so no alt run, i got into ICC by linking my Level 80 Achievement, and then my gear, showing I was a "serious" player, and got an invite :-)
Once againg proving the addage that, money ='s time.
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