Originally Posted by Goggles
1) Most fire mages have a shadow priest. I've tried a full arcane build and a shadow priest and elemental shaman were not enough to allow me to get through Magtheridon or Gruul without going out of mana (and I did less damage as I was having to be pretty conservative with mana).
2) Movement and range are an issue. However fast you move in and out you're still losing damage over the fire/frost mages who can sit at 36-41 yards and keep on nuking.
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I have no experience with Mag yet, but made it through Gruul without going out of mana. I actually had way too much mana at the end of the fight, which is the main reason I'm thinking that some combination of arcane/fire would be more viable for that fight for an arcane mage (as opposed to respeccing).
Also, with Gruul at least, it's not possible for every max-damage dpser to just sit there casting, otherwise I'd have been doing it (it's not like I couldn't have found a rock, if one were available, and just cast fireballs the whole time, without moving - I didn't cast a single arcane spell the entire fight, actually). For our particular raid, on the most recent Gruul kill, one of our hunters ended up topping the damage charts. Maybe he got lucky on placement in the raid and that's all it was. I like to think he's really that good . I group with the guy several times a week so I know it's probably true, but it's beside the point... well, not entirely because he usually doesn't beat ME on damage during the week. Just this one time. I'm not trying to BEAT people, though. I just think I can do a lot better than I'm doing now.