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CalaelenDT
Spec changes:
Get rid of:
- Magic Absorption:
Not worth it for PVE, more of a PVP talent
- Slow:
Near useless for PVE, tanks have slows on the boss to trigger your TTW, and for the few cases where you need to control adds, you can use Cone of Cold, Frost Nova and Frostbolt
- Improved Counterspell:
Pure PVP talent, has no place in a PVE build
This frees up 5 points for you, put them in the following:
- Spell Impact:
This should be 3/3 instead of your current 2/3, it gives you an additional 2 % damage to your main nuke, which is a must have
- Arcane Flows:
Needs to be 2/2, reduces the cooldown of your most important Arcane spells by a lot, this is also a must have
- Arcane Meditation:
I'd put 3 points into this myself, as Mana is very important to Arcane Mages so having 50% of it continue while casting is big, you'll be short 1 point in order to get this to 3/3, I'd take a point of of either of the following: Arcane Stability (at 4/5, you'll still won't suffer from pushback if you have a Paladin with Concentration Aura), Arcane Stability (you should be fine with just a 20% reduction if you know how to use Invisibility/Mirror Image properly) or Incanter's Absorption (It's a situational talent, so having it at 2/3 instead of 3/3 isn't going to cause problems)
Hit cap
Yes, your at the hit cap for Arcane Mages, as it's 289 hit rating (or 11%) and your already over that. If you have a Boomkin or Shadow Priest in your raid, you'll only need 218 hit rating (or 8%). So your fine there.
Mana Pool
25.000 mana unbuffed means you'll be near 30.000 mana buffed, which is a solid amount and should mean you won't run into any mana problems, assuming your using the proper rotation and use your mana regen ability wisely
Haste rating
775 Haste is a very nice amount, obviously if you can get your hands on more than that's nice, but your definitely not Haste starved or having DPS loss due to your Haste rating.
Rotation
You didn't mention what rotation you use, but just to make sure, your rotation should be:
Arcane Blast x4 followed by a Missile Barrage, if Missile Barrage doesn't proc, cast a regular Arcane Missiles (or you can keep fishing for a proc, but your mana pool probably won't allow this in a raid, so make sure to see what's best for the situation).
Hope this helps, and if you have any further questions, feel free to ask them!
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CalaelenDT
Spec changes:
Get rid of:
- Magic Attunement:
Not worth it for PVE, more of a PVP talent
Worst advise ever.
More range is always good on a fight that requires you to
*Move
*Kill adds/switch targets
*Spread out
There are very few fights when range is a bad thing, specially as arcane with our silly 30 yards.
Woops, my bad, I meant Magic Absorption, not Attunement. Fixed it, and thanks for the heads-up!
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After reading your helpful posts,I changed some talents.No points in Magic Absorption and Improved Counterspell now.Removed 2 points from Incanter's Absorption and gave them for Arcane Meditation,Arcane Flow.
But slow,couldnt change it.I just like slow:)
Changed my cloak with new season version,which increased my haste to 793.It is the only pvp item I wear.Should I just buy the frost cloak form vendor?
@Claad: I am allready too fragile,don't you think?However 2*15 sta=300 life not a big deal.Should I change them with spirit or 5 mana every per seconds gems?
Thanks for all the help^^
Gemming should be like this:
- Red Socket:
Runed Cardinal Ruby
(+23 Spellpower)
- Yellow Socket:
Reckless Ametrine
(+12 Spellpower / + 10 Haste)
- Blue Socket:
Purified Dreadstone
(+12 Spellpower / + 10 Spirit)
- Meta Socket:
Chaotic Skyflare Diamond
(+21 Critical Strike rating & 3% increased Critical damage)
If the Socket Bonus is +6 Spellpower or more, than you should gem it so you get the Bonus, if it's anything other than +6 Spellpower (or above) than ignore the Socket Bonus and just put in Runed Cardinal Rubies. Purified Dreadstones should never be used except to activate your Meta Gem (which requires 2 Blue/Purple gems) or to activate a Socket Bonus (see requirements above).
NEVER gem for:
- Stamina:
Mages have and always will be squishy, a few hundred more HP isn't going do anything for us in raids. (This is for PVE only, gemming for Stamina in PVP is a different story)
- Intellect:
Yes, we benefit from it, especially as an Arcane Mage, but never more than we do from gemming Spellpower/Haste/Crit
- MP5:
No good for Mages at all, Evocation, Mana Pots and Gems should be more than enough to keep your mana up during a normal fight, no need to waste stats on MP5.
Regarding your Cloak, I assume you mean your using
Wrathful Gladiator's Cloak of Subjugation
, in which case I wouldn't spend 60 Emblems of Frost to get the Emblem Cloak. Spend your badges on T10 pieces instead.
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