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An AB spam build for new 80's
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Post by
Jacmac
I just turned 80 and have almost all blue gear (almost all items @ 130-190 item level). I'm going to be doing heroics for quite awhile. I was a little worried going into my first heroic that my dps would be bad enough that the party might want to kick me out, that's what made me think about trying this. I decided to try and make a pure AB spam build to see if I could basically 'mana dump' my way into high dps in heroics.
As it turned out my fears were probably unnecessary, but I was surprised at how well AB spamming worked out. Here is the build:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#of0Vcu0IzxGuMxcbcZbIccoc:NwT0cz
I'll try to capture some heroic boss fights tonight, but even with my crap gear I was always doing over 2K dps and some of the easier bosses I hit 3K by the end of the fight. My hit rating is only 60, Spell Power about 1000, Haste at 10%, crit chance at 10%, and my total mana pool was about 14K. I went into my first heroic hoping I would do 1.4K to 1.8K.
I use Mage Armor. I open the fights with Mirror Image and AB spam until my mana was low enough to warrant a Mana Gem. Then I hit the Mana Gem, trinket for SP, Icy Veins, AP, and then AB spam until I was out of mana. If the boss was still alive, I Evocated and AB spammed again. Most of the time the boss was dead or close to dead before Evocation. On one hard boss, when I Evocated the boss still had about 40% health left and by the time he died I was out of mana. The longest fight was maybe 1.5 minutes. Most were less than one minute.
There is a bit of luck involved with getting clearcasting procs and what kind of group makeup you end up with, sometimes you'll get a lot more AB casts out than other times.
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Post by
Jacmac
Yeah, the idea was to try to extend mana as far as possible, so MB was skipped. Next thing I'm wondering about is skipping Incinerate for Cold Snap.
Post by
Pens1566
Yeah, the idea was to try to extend mana as far as possible, so MB was skipped. Next thing I'm wondering about is skipping Incinerate for Cold Snap.
If mana is a concern, why aren't you using your biggest dmg/lowest mana spell? MB is free you know ...
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Jacmac
Yeah, but it resets AB. If it didn't, then of course I would pick it up and use it. The idea here is that for farming heroics, you dump mana as fast as possible on the bosses and do as much dps as possible. This isn't a spec for long or complex fights.
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Post by
nickseng
If it works for you, go nuts.
I find that most fights in heroics usually last less than a minute anyway, so the mana issue is probably not gonna be a problem anyway.
Just note that once you get into the higher difficulty heroics, such as the ICC ones, you will run out of mana mid-fight.
Just my 2 cents.
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