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◊ Kaubel · 04/18/08, 9:06 PM

Post: [Mage] 2.4 TC, aka Guys in Blue Dresses
User: MyrddinE
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Originally Posted by Cornelium

To make it short, you're using the lowest mana consumption spec in game. For fights when you'll run OOM after some time, it's pretty normal for lowest mana usage specs to shine. It's not a flaw with RAWR, but a flaw with the usage of it

I don't really think it's a flaw in my usage... it's highlighting an important point. For progression, with lesser gear, mana efficiency is more important than any other stat.

When we fought Void Reaver, I had a total of 12 OO5SR ticks the entire fight. I don't stop DPSing, and when a bomb is falling on me, I usually blink out. My DPS over the course of the fight was much higher with this spec than with my previous 10/0/51.

Now, I'll admit that TK helps highlight the benefits of this spec... there's a lot of AOE, and 18 points in Arcane lets me buff up my AE. Void Reaver (for us) is a long fight, where I'm burning mana the whole time. Solarian is also a mana intensive fight, despite the short breaks before AoE waves. And Al'ar (who we haven't touched yet) is hostile to fire specs. So overall, it's pretty much ideal for this spec.

I'm not saying that this spec is better at DPS than the standard specs everyone knows... I'm saying that its mana efficiency is so high that it highlights an important gap in the specs... a gap that really should be filled, and has an important purpose, that of allowing lesser geared mages to continue DPS an entire fight while progressing through T5 content. I think there are a lot of mages out there that look to EJ as gospel truth and follow all the recommendations here. They're using the given specs and not realizing that if they traded off some raw DPS for mana efficiency, they'd make up for it by quaffing destro pots instead of mana... by DPSing instead of Evocating.

Myrddin