Wednesday, April 18, 2012

So I just fell in love with my mage again

Specced arcane for the first time (in Cata) to do BH, with erm, full pvp gear.

Ended up pulling 12k =D

And did BG's with it, watching those LOL 38K CRITS ROFLROFLRFOL... it really makes my 12k deep freeze ice lances not as cool looking.

Arcane is more herp a derp, and I reccommend more mages join it. Less skill, more crits = funzies
I just started playing about 3 weeks ago, and was spec'd arcane while leveling and was having a blast.

Then I read all the forums talking about the greatness that is the fire spec so I figured I'd try it out a few days after hitting 85.

My overall dps in regular zones went from about 7k to 9.5k-10k.

While arcane is fun and simple, it's just a terrible spec in comparison to fire.

Not only did my AoE dps quadruple, but my single target dps even went up a bit because I'm not OOM in 2 minutes.

Which, as arcane with the half quest half dungeon gear I was using, you either run yourself out of mana or get embarrassed on the parse, no two ways about it.

But if you think arcane mage is fun, spec fire and download Scorchio 2.0 + CombustionHelper and practice up a bit with it.

It takes a lot more getting used to than arcane as far as proccing impact with blastwave and keeping LB up on multiple targets but not recasting it before it explodes or spreading it with impact when it's about to explode on a mob you don't have targetted etc.

But once you learn to play fire(should only take a couple days) it's so much more fun and useful.

You actually have more than 3 buttons to click and if your overall dps sucks it's your own fault, unlike arcane where you can't help it because you either AB2/AM or stack AB and run OOM through the whole damn zone.

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