Infraction for solbergb: Useless Post

• Aldriana · 09/25/08, 3:24 AM

Post: [Mage] Sweet Informational Thread
User: solbergb
Infraction: Useless Post
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

http://elitistjerks.com/f31/a34-forum_rules/, #5 (consecutive posting). You made two posts to answer the same question. It should be obvious that this is not ideal.

Also, the excessive line breaks in the preceding post make it awkward to read.

Original Post:

^^ to summarize that for the original poster.

If your paladin can handle the threat from your current flamestrike rotations, you can handle the "lead with fire, then AE, with blast wave/dragon breath as they come up" rotation easily. If you can sustain the mana burn, that's the most DPS rotation, but it probably is not a lot better than AE spam unless the # of mobs drops closer to 7-8, so it might not be worth the threat on the Hyjal mobs.

If he can't handle the initial burst, AE spam with blast wave/dragon breath as his threat curve gets ahead is likely better, although again if there are a lot of mobs alive, BW/DB may not do much more than Arcane Explosion. It's
easy to tell...just look at the numbers you get when you pop them.

The only reason to use the flamestrike rotation you described is mana and even then you need to consider total
damage done vs mana used. It might just make the fight last longer without doing any more total damage
(or worse, do less damage)