Originally Posted by Mac
I joined a guild in which a mage there said that a good raiding spec was 40/0/21. I didn't know any better and he'd been to SSC and TK, so why not take his advice. I've since left that guild and joined up with my buddy who got me back into WoW. He also told me to come here and read your forums because I've been frustrated with my build and my DPS. I started reading these forums yesterday and it seems I should actually be 2/48/11. With the 40/0/21 build, I'm usually between 885-980ish DPS(depending on if I remember to use my cool downs as much as possible). I know I should be able to do more though.
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Indeed. 40/0/21 is a good raid spec... if you have 2 pieces of t5 and a regular spriest in your group. Making it work also requires gearing and gemming that are very different from the normal gemming rules--namely that regen matters and you gear with spirit as a consideration and gem for int. You're geared for fire but trying to nuke arcane, which is not a recipe for success. Rawr is showing that you should be able to hit 1200 dps purely from frostbolt spam (assuming CoE) and that switching to fire should put you at 1550 dps.