short answer: no

long answer: noooooooooooooo


I pondered this question for a long time. I found that waiting until IV is off of CD to use your go crazy macro is usually best. I'll lay out what I do for each fight. (this is for heroic)

Beasts: Burn them all with MI at the start of the fight. Then burn them all again when we BL at the first Icehowl Stun.

Jaraxxus: Burn them on the first portal. Use the macro again even though IV is on CD for the second portal. Then use the full macro again for the third portal.

Faction champs: I use them whenever IV is off of CD.

Twins: I save my macro for an opposite shield b/c we don't use the door strat.

Anub: *FFB

Anyways, some people say that using each cd as soon as it's available is a dps increase over waiting for IV, but I still prefer to use the macro to it's full extent situationally. That is, unless the boss is at 10% or whatever and only AP is up then I use it anyways.

Good morning. I had a question about DW tanking. There has not been much activity in here recently and I was wondering if people still consider DW tanking to be viable for end game raiding at all.

This is my armory
The World of Warcraft Armory

For weapon I have 2 heroic Frost Blade Hatchets which I can use or a Burnished Quel'Serrar.

Currently I am tanking 2h blood and clear all lockouts every week. 25 and 10 man on ToC normal and heroic with the exception of 25 man H Anub. Is DW tanking viable for this content? For my gear and weapons? Will have have less TPS and is mitigation or avoidance any better in the DW spec? And lastly if you are successfully DW tnkaig end game which spec are you using? Is the one on the front page still viable as is?

Thanks alot Heavenly works like a charm

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is Fallen Crusader included ?

thanks for the answer

Hey, this is my first post here.. Just wondering what a macro would be for a Silencing shot mouse over? It wouldn't be something like /Cast Silencing Shot [Target=Mouseover]; would it?

i am 100% confused as to what normalization is doing to my strikes.

from both anecdotal evidence, personal bias, and extensive testing; a slow weapon is better than a fast one. However recently (as in the past few hours) i came upon the fact that DK strikes have their weapon damage coefficient normalized in some manner or other. does anyone here have a full grasp on how exactly that works?

eg. (with made up numbers)
with normalization a obliterate should do 2500 if im using a 1.5 speed weapon or a 2.8 speed weapon and the normalization is at 2.4 weapon speed.
without normalization an obliterate should do 1562.5 with a 1.5 speed and 2916.67 with a 2.8 speed weapon.

Hey everyone. I have a question as I am becoming increasingly frustrated. I am newly specced into Arcane as Fire has begining to suck for me. Here is a link to my armory. The World of Warcraft Armory

I have been using the typical ABx4 until MB procs and rinse and repeat. Perhaps I am not using my cool downs appropriately? IV and AP I've been using at the beginning of the fight, followed by my trinket "Fetish of Volatile Power" and eventually I'll use PM after the 4th AB if MB procs. I'm not sure if this rotation is making me fail, but my dps is less than stellar. I use magealert, scorchio2, and satrina as addons to help me with knowing when my stuff procs.

My DPS on dummies in org is crap. I'm hoping someone can give me some friendly advice. Also, I have 3 trophies in my bags plus T9.5 chest piece. Should I buy the badge trinket with +128 Int. with the Use of Increased SP?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

But if I check off "use dp on Oh" option in the settings menu, would it assume I would use wound instead?

At first glance, you are way over hit cap for Arcane. The cap is 17%, you have 6% from talents, so at most you will need 11%. Additionally, the presence of a moonkin or a SP gives another 3%, so you could need as little as 8% depending on your raid makeup.

It's a little hard to give DPS advise without seeing a log or dmg break down.

When you mentioned using specials, are you macroing them all together or individually using them? Cooldown stacking involves using everything you got all at once for maximum effect.

Also Presence of Mind does not effect Arcane Missiles or any other channel spell (like Blizzard). Macro it to Arcane Blast and use it while you are moving or to speed up stacking up your AB debuff if it's a tank and spank.

Your gear is heavily weighted towards spell crit which isn't as useful to Arcane mage. I would suggest loading up Rawr with your gear choices and letting it do the work.

Do we have an idea on how this will affect Stat values yet for builds. I assume haste will go up, but will it starting being a stat to stack.