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Old 10/25/06, 12:36 AM   #265
Lhivera
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Originally Posted by Maledict
Again, according to the maths I ran through (posted earlier in the thread), the DPM still matters a huge amount - arcane hasn't been boosted at all by these changes, and so it remains vastly lower DPM than Fire or frost. If there's a mistake in my maths, then of course that stuff is wrong, but right now I think arcane remains a pretty bad tree as a main damage school. Both Arcane Missiles and Arcane Blast are supposed to be high DPS / low DMP spells, which doesn't make much sense - arcane needs a stable nuke.
Are you accounting for Judgement of Wisdom on the target? Arcane Missiles gets five times the benefit from it of any other nuke. If you're horde, that doesn't help you now, but it will in TBC.

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