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Thuya
The beginning part of this post is going to be long-winded so i can qualify my question with my personal experience. I'll put a bold mark at where the important question is if you don't want to read my drivel.
This is my armory link:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Black+Dragonflight&n=Anthoknee
I've done research about the two main raiding fire specs, the 10/48/3 and the 2/48/11. I've tried both of them but found that my mana pool wasn't really up to the icyveins one (this was quite some time ago) so i've been clearcasting fire since then.
Some quick points about my gear, I'm 31/35 badges towards the badge bracers, and I'm working on getting a better helm. I know I've got a few crappy pieces, lets move on. :P
I know how to do the rotation. 7x fireball and 1x scorch to keep the debuff on. I'm usually pulling ~800 dps, depending on the fight of course. (The group I run with doesn't have an ele shaman/boomkin/spriest. So all I've got is myself and the warlock's CoE)
I'm not doing any serious raiding, as I'm sure you can tell by my gear, mostly Kara/mag/gruul some ZA. I've noticed lately that I seem to be having more mana at the end of the boss fights, without having changed anything in my rotation or casting and this leads me to believe that I'm ready to change my spec over.
My question:
At what point in gear progression is it normally ok to go from 10/48/3 to 2/48/11 and still be able to keep up? I've read the stickies and tried to do some research (and will continue to do so) but haven't found anything that mentions this specifically.
If anyone has any personal experience, or even a link to a thread that's already covered this (if I missed it) I'd really appreciate any information. Thank you!
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172710
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Post by
Thuya
Ah thanks for that informative post! I'll definitely have to look at my recount breakdown after and see if I can afford the mana for it.
The group composition varies wildly, since at the progression our guild is at, we frequently have to pug a number of members to fill dps slots. So there can be some runs where I'll be in a group with a boomkin, ele shammy, AND a shadow priest, and some where I'm left high and dry, I figured the best way to figure out how I should go would be to discount them totally, since their presence is unreliable at best.
Thinking back taking into account what you've said I think I can probably afford to get the icy veins. I'm going to wait this week and get some hard numbers from my recount, then give it a shot. Thanks for the information! :)
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Post by
elilla
You'll see more damage once you get closer to the hit cap. Until then, you're losing at least 3.2% of your dps due to resists if not more. We were already well into SSC/TK when IV came in, but in most guilds when I talked to some of the other leads or mages they weren't switching until atleast then. There really isn't a hard,fast rule but most usually wait until they're around 1k fire, and 25-27% crit.
IV works best when you have lots of mana aka a shadow priest. This usually lets use IV liberally(twice or so if the fight is long, or more so). One right off the bat, and another around 20% when molten fury is active(aka big numbers, bigger burning, bigger crits). Letting you time your trinkets, and other goodies maximizing your dps.
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Thuya
Since the post I've gotten a couple pieces of better gear, and my hit's now 124, (not quite there, but closer!). Thanks for the advice elilla, that made a lot of sense. I used recount and did notice that even with the better gear I was getting resisted ~3% of the time (and I'm not sure if recount shows partial resists or not, but I don't think so). I got my T4 helm last night, and the badge bracers, so hopefully that will help. I was still doing ~800dps on average (kara onry) obviously more on the aoes, and on the prince fight I pulled around 850 dps, Which is about what maxdps says I should be doing.
I think I'm going to keep my spec as is for now, until we start doing higher things (based on your guys' comments). I appreciate the comments and help making me the deadliest water cooler in the raid tbqh. And for posterity, let me relink my armory pages:
Mage:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Black+Dragonflight&n=Anthoknee
and my Priest (just for kicks):
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Black+Dragonflight&n=Thuya
And as I keep telling my best friend (who is a BM hunter) Nerf hunters, buff mages. ....Stay thirsty my friends.....
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