I started off as a mage from vanilla to wotlk. Ive been perusing this site for as long as i can remember and thanks for that elitist jerks. Since wotlk i decided to change to shaman for the awesomeness of of shockandawe. However, i have always followed mages as a passion. Its really nice to see the changes for fire mages but arcane was a sweet spot for me especially come the end of tbc. It's a shame that arcane have had such a small overhaul in cata.

One thing i would love blizzard to implement to make up for that fact is mana gem. Id love them to input a talent fairly high up the tiers that reads something like this.

Mana gem loses the ability to restore mana. Alternatively four seperate spells are added to the spell book. They have the same cooldown as mana gem however each one has a different abilty along the lines of.

Your next four hits crit.

For 15 seconds you can move and casts spells.

For 15 seconds your spells are free.

Do an instant aoe damaging spell with a minor debuff.

I think would add a lot mpre intrigued to the class and yet allow them to adapt to the situation akin to other similar classes or specs.

I dont know who to contact to give such suggestions to however. I hope this doesnt seem too out of place sorry if it is. Jist an idea. I'd love to see arcane get given something back as i dont want to see the possibility of the spec to fade because of either enjoyment or overall dps values.

Assassination

* Eviscerate base damage increased by 30%, now scales from 9.1/18.2/27.3/36.4/45.5% of AP depending on the amount of combo points, up from 7/14/21/28/35%.


Combat

* Backstab now deals 200% weapon damage, up from 175%. Additional base damage increased by 33%.
* Revealing Strike now causes 125% of your normal weapon damage, up from 100%.
* Improved Sinister Strike now increases damage dealt by your Sinister Strike ability by 10/20/30%, up from 2/4/6%.
* Vitality (Passive) now also increases Attack Power by 15%.


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I've noticed that I seem to do quite a bit more damage (and threat) only using pulverize to keep up the buff. I tank with more of a priority system with mangle being the highest, keeping the pulverize buff being second and just spamming lacerate in down time. And yeah, I dont really see vengeance staying the way it is, I've seen mangle crits as high as 30k which is kind of rediculous

If someone is gkicked, and then re-added, do they lose all guild rep and start from scratch? Just curious, as it hasn't been terribly infrequent in the past that someone in our guild would jokingly kick someone else.

Your guild reputation is only wiped after you rejoin a DIFFERENT guild. If you're booted in play, it won't auto-reset your rep. That would be horrible.

With this kind of buff won't lethality & Coup de Grace deserve more love compared to Relentless Strike @lvl80 ?

I've been having minor threat issues tanking LFG dungeons in Frost spec. A usual pull would include a D&D to start, then a howling blast, then a saronite bomb, followed by IT/BS/FS fillers until howling blast is back of cooldown. Single target is absolutely not a problem, it's just AoE threat. I plan to eventually switch to blood spec tanking for if I plan on raiding with it, but I imagine that would make my AoE threat quite bad.

Also, I seem to be taking a good bit more damage than I should be with my gear. Equal geared and higher healers sometimes have a bit of trouble keeping me up. This isn't a huge concern, but it does alarm me slightly because I have 539 def with 15 resilience, so I'm at raid def cap, and I've got almost 40k unbuffed in FP.

Tips, suggestions?

with 4.0 release soon, was wondering what spec and for a lack of a better term "rotation" are you planning to use to finish out wrath with.

Hmm, that's very possible and would make more sense than any theory I had. I'm planning to do a bunch of testing tomorrow so I'll see if I can nail it down.

No, he was spamming lacerate in between Pulverizes so it would have been at three stacks. From testing on a target dummy, Lacerate and a full power Pulverize had nearly identical TPR. Since a large portion of the threat gained from Lacerate is a static threat increase, as long as you have a bit of vengeance Pulverize will pull away quickly. However, that get's balanced with less damage from lacerate ticks and a couple less Berserk procs. I'm not sure where that will all even out, but my best guess is it will end up close enough that either using Pulverize as fast as you get three stacks or only fast enough to keep up the buff will be viable.

Well, Envenom consumes all DP Stacks from your Target. So its gotta be, otherwise its not working as intended.

That thread is a joke and most of the discussion there is based on Blood Tanking and Unholy.