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Originally Posted by Maledict
Re. Judgement of Wisdom - I don't factor it in because with 2 / 3 paladins per raid maximum, and with what every alliance player always says about maintaining the judgement on raid mobs, I think it's a bit disingenious to use it to justify Arcanes DPM. Especially as a lot of fights involve more than one boss, even in 5 player groups, and as soon as that happens Arcane Missiles returns to being a silly ungodly amount of mana per cast. Whilst it's a nice boost, I don't think it's strong enough or will be up on the target your hitting long enough to justify moulding all our theorycraft around it.
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In my experience raiding Naxx/AQ40/BWL on alliance side the following is true:
If an encounter lasts long enough to make mana a problem, and there is at least one paladin in the raid then JoW is perma-up on current target.
A lot of the times JoW doesn't appear on trash, etc. But on trash DPM isn't generally important anyways. In good guilds JoW is up by reflex, just like warlock curses.
I think you are wrong to dismiss AM so quickly. I think it might be worth it to jump through a few hoops to make it a viable nuke, just because the -40% threat is so good.