Infraction for Fujisaw: General Idiocy

Kaubel · 07/09/08, 9:29 AM

Post: [Mage] Sweet Informational Thread
User: Fujisaw
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Excessive quote-splitting isn't necessary.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Pintofbrew

See this is what I don't get. There's a "sweet info" thread, with a guideline of what's considered "standard" for everyone in the mage comunity. You come up, juggle some talent points, make up an almost identical spec with quite a few utterly mind-boggling choices, ask "why doesn't anyone mention this spec I invented", somebody answers "it's sub-par" and you counter their statement with "no it's not".

Do you post wanting to hear an opinion, or do you post to argue why your choice of weird spec nobody else abides by is as good as if not better than what we all chose?

I would love to hear an opinion thats the main reason for posting here. I just hate an opinion of someone that answers that my spec is sub-par then gives no reasons why it is sub-par.

You spec 60% AM interrupt resist. Congrats. You missed at least two points in Arc. Focus, thus you're not hitcapped for Spellsteal on Council and may *resist* the first one, dying, or may *resist* on stealing RoS, wiping your raid. Better still, you may *resist* countering CoH on council while BoP is up and cost your raid another 1:45 worth of encounter on the longest, most exhausting T6 content fight because you felt 60% uninterruptable AM was a superior choice.

Yes I realize that AM is useless I was only got that because I am not the mage tank nor am I the shield stealer for ROS i just placed those just to get CC. But i totally see your point and will move those points to Arc. Focus.

I'm not even going to coment on Frost Warding, patently the worst early talent in the mage tree, marginally beaten by i-Wand.

I only got this because of BloodBoil. I tend to always get the buff during Phase 2 so i figured the extra armor would help me survive

Then the fantastic 3/5 i-Fbolt and none in either permafrost or i-Blizz. You have no AoE slow, you have no AoE stun, you can't help on Illidan Parasites or on AoE pulls in MH which botch and the paladin gets gibbed. You also have no nuke to cast on Illidan P2, but as you seem to be early BT I assume you'll respec for that.

Yeah I dont know the Illidan fight at all so i didnt know that i would need i-blizz or perma frost.

Finally, the 4% clearcasting will do exactly: Fuck all. You're losing a significant amount of usefulness without gaining anything that'll change your game play for the better. Even with 10% clearcast, you'd still need an SP to perform. Now you still need one, just a tiny bit less. So when the encounter is over, you and your fellow 0% clearcasting mage who is in the same SP group, will both have used 1 pot, 0 gems and no Evo, just he'll be on 4k mana and you'll be on 5.1k. This is why we don't spec Clearcasting.

I really had no idea that CC would be that worthless to me. I really thank you for pointing out the flaws in my spec. I'm really sorry if my previous post made me seem like a noob. I was just trying to find a better place for the points in Pyro, BW and DB since i never use them during raid and they seemed wasted to me. I guess i was trading wasted points for wasted points. I guess if I go fire I will go 40/21.

As arcane though where is the point that I can start gemming +dmg instead of Int/Spi currently raid buffed i have 14.5k mana and 400+ Mp5 while casting. Is that enough that continuing to gem Int/Spi is wasted?