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Can I raid and do good DPS as frost?
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OscarDivine
try doing 3 arcane blasts followed by arcane missiles religiously insteadd of arcane barrage, if your OOM all the time.
frost is easy, just burn your cooldowns fast and the 3rd fingers of frost icelance proc takes practice.
Okay well I think I will give frost a shot. So 21/0/50 is the build.
Seems like all you do is frost bolt. But why icelance on third fingers of frost?
Also I know frost isn't a spec that needs crit, so do I gem for more spell power and haste... or what?
Squeezing in that lance with the SECOND FoF charge will give you the crit chance and is pretty much the most important thing you can do as a Frost mage to increase your single target DPS outside of your FB Spam.
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Achloryn
seems like first page was decent discussion then they all started flaming each other. So you can raid as frost, but the other specs are better =/ so i will probably do less dps going frost.
the other specs aren't just better.. they're SIGNIFICANTLY better.. the damage output from frost is quite pathetic compared to other specs, and the chasm between them only widens as your gear gets better.
if your guild is cool with it, you're more than welcome to play how you want, just don't expect the big numbers you get with arcane right now.
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Corilithon
You are perfectly capable of raiding as frost. As has been previously mentioned multiple times, you will not do as much as you will eventually do in any of the other specs. However, it does gear the same as Arcane does (Assuming hit cap, gearing Spellpower->Haste as priorities) so if nothing else, the gear you run into as frost will be useful if you decide to go back to Arcane later.
Frostfire Bolt, on the other hand, gears differently than the other specs, valuing Crit as the number 1 priority after hitcap. You need somewhere around 30% unbuffed fire crit to make full use of it, so if you plan to go back to Arcane you might have to re-gear to make it as good.
A link to your armory will probably help too, but all in all it sounds like your gear is a little low amd/or you need to practice with Arcane more. It's not an easy spec to keep your mana up on if you're not used to it.
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Greywolfe1982
Your solution is not going frost, your solution is to manage your mana better.
If you notice yourself getting low, drop down to 1x ABl or 2x ABl rather than the standard 3.
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