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Kulehan: You probably left at 2.2, 8 months ago was waaay before 2.4. What made 2.2 arcane work was nerfed to the ground. Thankfully.
Currently arcane (prevalently 40/0/21) is very, very competent. It suffers, however, from being a massive dependency whore. It can't function without a shaman and a SP and preferably a JoW. It supercedes fire in that it can convert any and all excess mana into more DPS but suffers from that it can't perform without it. It's deffinitely doable and interesting, but mandates a number of negative things:
1) Scales badly with haste
2) Problematic with a number of mechanics, including range and pushback
3) Very picky of grouping
4) Has to have 2/5*T5. A major let-down at SWP gear levels.
Etc.
Before the CoS/CoE change, quite likely, it could depending on scenario surpass Fire. I was 50/0/11 all the way until we lost our Divine Spirit and Maledicted-CoS. At that point fire simply out-performed it.
Not exactly "better", more like a different way to skin a cat, as it were.
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