I am thinking of seriously leveling my Blood Elf Mage and I am curious, What spec do experienced Mages recommend?

Could there be any advantage of using activation trinkets over regular equip trinkets, say using one that boosts crit rating you can pop in solar eclipse and one that boosts haste for lunar eclipse? since these tend to have better bonuses than passive trinkets, i was thinking that they could be used by boomkins since our stat needs tend to be based on what eclipse is up.

I have been playing as boomkin in raids, mostly using my tanking os for insta-qs, but recently my guild has encouraged me to start tanking raids due to our lack of geared tanks. While the basic mechanics of tanking are not a problem for me(I can hold aggro, have high health and armor, have a high dodge) I am not used to tanking with other tanks. As most high-level raids have many bosses with no adds, i dont know when the right time is to taunt off the other tank. Have any of you found an add-on like dbm for tanks only that will display the stacks on another tank and suggest when to taunt, etc...?

EDIT: I use dbm and omen, I was just wondering if anyone has found an addon that says something like "Taunt off MT" when the mt gets x stacks of a debuff y. If you think I should try to find a tanking add-on thread to post this in please tell me so.

Rufix, If you have 5 CPs left and 5 sec on Rip and 10 sec on SR, your best bet to would be pool the rage until you can 5 point Rip again. Don't let your rage pool to 100 though and make sure to refresh Rake if needed. Its a bad idea to FB with 5 CP when you have 5 sec left on either Rip or SR. Its a dps loss. I normally FB with 5 CP when I have 12 seconds or more left on both.

Id just like first to say that u made a great tool. Although there are some wrong values on some weapons. The weapons from LK 25 have haste on them not mp5 which is messing up the bis list. just thought u should know since i havent seen anyone post on this.

If you use Grid, GridStatusRaidDebuff does that. As the name hints at, it shows raid debuffs on other raidmembers. Extremely handy.

is stacking on haste a bad idea?

DBM on its own is pretty good at that itself, announcing most stacks / debuffs that a tank needs to watch for on his fellow tank.

Simple option is still to just /focus your other tank you are paired with and communicate.

Depending on gear you can get away with more or less of some stacks ( sindy 3rd phase aura ), while others are hard coded that X stacks = tank dead ( fester's stack on the tank he is currently hitting = dead at 10 no matter what ) just as a couple examples.

For leveling frost is vastly superior to the other two specs, as for entry level raiding arcane is the most optimal.

which trinket set up better? Deathbringer's Will + Whispering Fanged Skull(HC) or

Deathbringer's Will +HerkumlWarToken

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