Originally Posted by Webbers
I’d love to but I don’t have rawr at work. Also by the time I get online (in 40 hours or so) this thread will have left me behind o.O
If anyone could add the TPS and DPS for a arcane mage doing a solid AB spam and compare it with any other class (casters or melee). I’d really appreciate it - I've never done the math and seriously doubt my ability to do so successfully
Why waste your time? It may help others value Arcane’s TPS – DPS ratio. Not all tanks are created =
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I looked by Rawr for my own mage and compared it to me in fire gear and fire spec.
My current armory shows my current arcane mage gear. Its T6 gear outside of the two 5 pieces, so your mages might be a bit lower considering where you are at now.
Raid buffed, with curse of shadows (not improved). AB spammed gives 1998 DPS. (This is not counting things like bloodlust or AP, this is just AB spam statistics taken from Rawr). The same tooltip tells me that the TPS (threat per second) for the AB spam is 847.71 TPS.
So, just based on normal AB spam, the DPS to TPS ratio is 2.36
Activating arcane power during bloodlust plus trinket would probably push it higher, but not as much because of the arcane talents.
Me as Fire spec in fire gear (means no T5, wearing things like hatefury mantle, leggings of channeled elements, belt of blasting, etc) , in raid buffs with COE (unimproved) and scorch up, on Rawr gives me fireball spam doing 1504 DPS. The TPS of this fireball spam is 951.98 TPS. And the threat would really shoot up during the molten fury, blood lust phase if you throw in IV, trinket, drums, heroic pots and whatever else.
Based on just normal fireball spam with scorch being up, the DPS to TPS ratio is 1.58
Hope this is what you wanted. In any case, arcane mages don't have to worry about threat. You couldn't draw aggro even if you wanted to. Unless you did something stupid like throw out an AP, POM Pyroblast (which is fire) at the very start of the boss pull. At ROS phase 3, even with the raid boss buffs pushing damage to ridiculous levels, I could go all out on AB spam and still not pull aggro. Our glaive using fury warrior once pulled aggro in ROS phase 3 before I did, and my DPS as an arcane mage on ROS phase 3 can go as high as 4200 DPS for the whole phase.