I still dont understand how works chimera shot, is better use it every CD or wait for max ticks of serpent and then use chimera?

In that case, is there any point in glyphing into Imp. Serpent Sting? If you're using it every cd, surely those extra seconds are wasted?

I've been trying to find proper rotations for arcane, but it seems like everyone has different views and abbreviations for spells and its confusing the hell outta me.

So here are the things i've found/tried.

1. Arcane Blast - Arcane Blast - Arcane Blast - Arcane Barrage/Arcane missiles IF missile barrage procs

2. Arcane blast - arcane blast - arcane blast - Arcane missiles(even without proc from missile barrage) then toss an arcane barrage at the last tick of missles.

3. Arcane blast - arcane blast - arcane blast - arcane missiles


Now of those 3, I've yet to test just soley on a test dummy, I'm just trying to get opinions on those.

And finally, going back to the 1st rotation. Say you shoot Arcane blast x3, you get missiles to proc and shoot them. THEN do you still shoot off an arcane barrage right after? Or do you go back to stacking Arcane Blast and not waste the mana on arcane barrage? Does this change while under the effects of heroism and/or icyveins?

PLEASE do NOT use stupid abbreviations if you respond to my question because we have a billion abilites that start with the letter A, and a handful that can be abbreviated by AB/M. Its just annoying to me sorry, i'm anal i know.

If you had bothered to read the thread you would know that Chimera gets a substantial boost by calculating Serpent Sting with the additional ticks provided by the glyph.

Hopefully Relwin takes you behind the woodshed before you can do further damage.

Man, it took an act of Congress for me to get half of that.

More to the point, I believe Bartender 4 does that as well, but on the target frame with large icons. This may however be more than you're looking for.

Hi everyone, I've been healer (holy or disc) for most (all besides levelling) of my WoW life, but I'm looking to try it as my dual spec in 3.1.

Any tips for maximising dps? I've collected some offset hit gear from naxx 25, nowhere near biS, but hit capped and decent spellpower/crit. What I'd really like to know is the rotations. I've read about some rotations, and also some that say rotations are not as useful, but rather priority based casting.

So, my questions are:

1) What's the best rotation/priority casting?
2) Mind sear every trash pull? Alone or do you cast other things as well? I know some people think trash is not important, but I'd like to pull my weight in every aspect.
3) Talander mentioned mind flay refreshes with current spellpower - but previously I've been lead to believe that for starters, we needed to get up misery/shadow weaving stacks before casting SW:P. Is this still necessary or can I just cast SW:P at the start and forget about it (besides ensuring it's up)?

Thanks!

Seriously, rawr with reconstruct sequence on will pretty much tell you how to play an arcane mage... Most people asking questions here seem like they never even looked at it, so please do, it'll answer your questions a lot better than any answer you get here.

In the unholy build - why not max Necrosis and dump Desecration? I may have missed something, but especially with mobile fights, I think the points would be better spent in Necrosis and maybe even Dark Conviction :

Unholy Build

With the new talents, Raise Dead is getting cut in half, but I still think the GCD for Ghoul Frenzy would be less of a hit then losing the ghoul entirely and have the wasted time while that guy crawls out of the ground. Not to mention the lost dps due to the pet not having buffs.

Since Desecration now procs off SS there's no reason not to get it, since even when movement is involved it should be up a large percent of the time, making it a good talent now. Necrosis, on the other hand, got nerfed and will deal less damage, meaning Desecration over Necrosis is a good solution.

Posted a thread about this in the ret pvp forum as well. How viable would a reckoning pvp spec be? Was thinking about speccing something like Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft going 0/25/46. Would be a trade off of righteous vengeance and divine storm for reckoning. With the change to sotm/sob it should do some pretty crazy burst and be the hardest hitting "ability" for a ret paladin in arena in like a 2's situation.

I'm curious on the up time that reckoning would have though. I'm guessing that vs a rogue or warrior or any sort of melee class they'd hit you enough to have it constantly up. Does reckoning proc vs ranged/spells? Would reckoning proc off of a SW:P? I'm guessing that it wouldn't proc off of sotm.

I'm guessing that with an 8 second proc duration that it'd be easy to get 2-3 hits off during that duration and if it procs once every 20 seconds and you hit twice it'd do the same damage as divine storm would. Also even though it's not as on command burst damage as divine storm is it'd be pretty easy to time a judgement/cs/exo with the melee hit landing for even better burst damage than divine storm would be.

The only draw back I can see to something like this would be that it does require taking damage to deal damage. So say you were trying to kill a priest or what not and they never did anything to damage you you'd do less damage than if you speced a traditional pvp spec. Makes a paladin more like a warrior with a bigger RNG factor in there and the more damage we take the better damage we deal.

The biggest question I have with this spec would be what can and can't cause reckoning to proc? Can thorns/ret aura? DoTs? Consecrate?

Why didnt you spend some time reading the various threads, instead of begging for hand holding? The information you asked for is readily available. You "want to start discussions"? Im afraid thats all been discussed to death, and pretty solid conclusions have been reached, theory wise. So instead of cluttering threads with your "I feel this is good!" stuff, READ UP! Most here dont care what you "think its good", we want you to back your statements with something, be it parses, math, whatever.