Originally Posted by Aoife
I specced deep arcane for Gruul one night. I hated it. With 10/48/3, I could stay near the wall and spam fireballs and wait until the very last second to avoid ground slam. With deep arcane, I was in way to close, nearer to many other people. I had to stop dpsing early and had to worry about Reverberation hitting me while casting AM and destroying my DPM.
If I were you, I'd read the topics on the Mage Forum of the official site and take a look at the ones discussing deep arcane's raid viability.
The math that has been done by deep fire mages has mostly convinced me deep arcane isn't too accurate and the deep arcane mages have only offered up excuses why the math is wrong rather than supplying their calculations.
Take a look and think about things a little more.
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So you say you switched from your normal cookie-cutter fire spec to arcane for an evening?
I'm coming from the exact opposite perspective. Except my crutch is to use my max range (fireball) spell when I'm in most boss fights that require movement or range. The thing is, I believe I can do it with my arcane and I want to learn HOW to do it. I want to be the most kickass arcane mage I can be.
The normal objections to arcane are that it's 1) too mana intensive (I have a shadow priest constantly feeding me mana) 2) The range isn't sufficient (with the right bossmod, you have more than sufficient warning to get the fuck out of the way before shit happens) 3) with the main spell being a 5-sec channel, you can't move as often without sacrificing mana (see item 1)
So for this argument, let's also assume that I have a shadow priest in my pocket (luckily I'm married to him) and I'm also able to get the movement speed buff from the fun little daily Simon quests so I can get out of the way pretty fast. Basically I want people to assume these kinds of things aren't an issue.
If you had all the mana you wanted, and could move ... pretty fast... and could only spec arcane... how would you maximize your damage?