Leveling: Stay Frost or Arcane

Сообщение от Whatadorc

I'm currently a fresh lvl 67 and i've been playing through the game up to this point as frost spec...but im wondering if the 57-3-11 arcane spec is any good at leveling through northrend or if i should just stay frost for the survivability

I have no experience in the Fire or Arcane trees as of this moment...i have the perma water pet glyph so i have a pet that kind of helps me out in tight situations or can threat an elite so i can get a jumpstart on DPS on him, which is helpful...i'm not sure but if i go arcane i also lose ice barrier which is an AWESOME shield that has saved me many a times...

im wondering if i go arcane and i lose that slowing ability of frost and the pet, plus ice barrier(if its a frost talent-not sure)..that it'll lead to more deaths on my part especially starting it in northrend, but i know i'll be going arcane for end game and wanted to get used to it early for end game stuff

EDIT: Also while i'm questing through northrend i plan on constantly doing dungeons so i am not bored out of my mind questing

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Сообщение от moocow

Arcane has Slow, nothing should ever live to get into melee range. If you get adds, FN / sheep / CoC & slow kite. I'm currently lvl 68 Arcane in BT, np at all.

Getting used to it sounds like a good idea.

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Сообщение от Amyndar

Just noticed you made a post yesterday that said you were a fresh level 80, looking for advice as to which spec to run in heroics. How can you be level 67 and 80 at the same time? O.o

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Сообщение от nickseng

This is just me being Arcane bias, but I feel that relying on Frost and Ice Barrier doesn't really give you the feel of playing a mage. I mean, the whole concept of being a glass cannon is that you can do incredible damage, at the cost of being incredibly fragile. Having Ice Barrier just makes it less mage-y, IMHO. :)

Just my 2 cents.

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Сообщение от dervasavred

I recomend you to go arcane, but not 57-3-11. Maybe 71/00/00 will be better.

What? No. Not ever.

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Сообщение от dervasavred

shouldn't a decent frost mage beable to aoe alot more then just 4 mobs at one time. especially one around 68. so being able to kill 4 mobs quicker then a frost mage. i think you should calculate if you can kill more like 6-8 mobs (realistically any more then 8 they usually reset) as quick as a frost mage or faster.

You also have to consider the fact that AoE grinding on mobs in Northrend is decent but not optimal, especially given that they tend to be spread out more, have higher HP pools and will eat a considerable chunk of your mana to kill, especially if they have some sort of innate Frost resistance.

The other thing to remember is that AoE Frost WILL drink after that one pull of 6-10 mobs in addition to taking the time to gather them up.

This is versus Arcane killing an even-level target in between three and eight seconds each, quite literally, next to no downtime, particularly if you level with Mage Armor. If you do get low, pop Evo. It's only a 60 second CD.

Finally, remember that the new AoE cap treats eleven targets and up as if you were hitting ten.

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Сообщение от thedot

I know i leveled from 70-80 as Frost, and it worked fine, but things might have changed in the past year.

Ice barrier is very useful :D

Leveling: Stay Frost or Arcane

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