Originally Posted by Pintofbrew
You are not wrong, you only need 9% to cap.
At the level of raiding you're at, I wouldn't suggest respec to fire. It's not that fire's bad, it's that you'll see approximately fuck-all difference. Frost is a-ok at that level and unless you're plowing through the content you're at (which is unlikely, or else you'd have progressed further into the game I assume?) you'll find frost is much more competent with trash than fire can aspire to be. As far as frost is concerned, I'd advise: drop Shatter entirely, spec Arcane Impact as it's vastly superior to any other AoE and spec the last point in Ice Floes. Ice Floes directly impacts your DPS because it makes Cold Snap's CD short enough that you may use it twice on a boss fight. This is roughly what should be happening:
0.00 engage
0.10 tank has *some* agro and you have 3-4 stacks of WC. Summon WE, then IV-Trink-SCB. Immediately Cold Snap.
0.30 IV over, recast IV
0.55 Elemental expires, recast Elemental.
At T5 level many fights last long enough for you to get a second Cold Snap, which means one more IV and probably one more WE (I say probably, because it's pushing it for 2*Csnap+45sec WE for boss fight duration)
If you insist on going fire, by all means do, but be warned: Fire performs optimally on bosses, and does not pull significantly ahead from frost before T5 gear-level.
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Awesome, good to know that I haven't been under the hit cap. I didn't realise that Rage was Frost resistent, and my dps was below normal on that fight, so I wasn't too confident about the hit cap, despite reading all the TCing threads.
As for the content, we are going at a good rate, we went from from 0/6 SSC to 6/6 SSC in about 5 weeks I think, and we've done the first 3 in Hyjal after about 2 weeks. We start BT on Wednesday.
As far as my rotation goes, it's exactly what you showed just there. The shatter etc is for soloing, but I'm thinking of dropping it, as the SSO dailys are a piece of cake, and so there's not much need for those points.
TBH, I'm not bothered about damage meters, I just want us to progress, so if I'm behind on trash, but the boss goes down, all the better. That's why I was thinking fire. It's also because I don't generally use my CDs on trash (outside the ele) and save them all for the boss.
With all this in mind, do you think it's still worth not speccing fire? If I were to, what gear changes would you advise?