Originally Posted by Nurru
Spending a global cooldown to do 400-500 damage is simply significantly less dps than if you used frostbolt constantly. Ice Lance is only good for shatter crits, and in PvE you won't encounter those (or even typically have shatter).
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I will try that for sure, maybe I am so used to the rhythm of it that I dont notice the extra global cooldown. I just got Recount setup so I will do some tests (my holy priest and prot warrior didnt find much use for recount), but I feel like its not slowing me down. I get the shatter thing bigtime, thats the big money, dropping 2k+ on an instant cast is immense.
Thanks again, any other advice, things I should consider, or watch out for? Gear advice for a frost mage?
Originally Posted by Symphonia
Technically it's instant cast, but you have to remember instant casts use up the global cooldown, so it's better to judge it as a 1.5 second cast (assuming no haste). So you have a 2.5 second cast that does 1600~ damage or a 1.5 second cast that does 400~ damage. As for your spec, depends on what you do and what your group composition is like, really. You could go 10/0/51 for clearcasting to help with some mana problems.
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I used to have that, and respecced out, didnt feel like it was getting me alot. However, during say a pre-25 man geared prince fight
I had to use two pots, two charges of my gem, and an evocate. Fight lasted 20 minutes. In comparison to my priest, thats ALOT of mana problems, but I dont think I should evenly compare the two.