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Rawr: Optimal Mage Sets
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solbergb
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Off topic. Make a course correction please.
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Original Post:
I can't say whether arcane vs frostfire is easier or harder in the abstract.
It's just that I've worked with the deep fire rotation (hot streak+living bomb+scorch+main nuke) for several months and it's closer to the BC scorch+fireball rotation that I had before. It's not just the rotation in abstract, it's all the keybindings, macros and integration with other stuff.
Unlearning that and learning a new dynamic (what looks like simpler rotation, but needing to manage mana) doesn't seem to me to be something I should be doing unless I'm either comfortable with all the fights I'm in or have maxed out my learning curve on what I'm doing and am bored.
Also I'm often the only mage, so going deep arcane is a raid loss if I don't bring the scorch debuff.
For these reasons I'm far more likely to experiment with arc/fire than deep arcane at the moment. I'd have switched over already except that the only fights we're really struggling with at all have burst aoe phases that I can do better with frostfire. My single target dps isn't as important to raid success as burning the sparks in malyph1, the melee adds in malyph2 or Sarth+3d adds fast at the moment. (in frostfire I can fit in a firestarter build at cost of some mana efficiency. I can't do that in deep fire or arcane without losing single target dps)
If we were struggling with Patchwerk and Thaddeus type fights, I'd probably be looking a lot harder at deep arcane or arc/fire. If fast trash clears were important for some reason, I'd be deep frost.
I also really hope dual spec makes it in at some point. It takes the risk out of trying a new spec - if you try it and you suck, midraid you can flip to the other spec.
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02/02/09, 2:10 PM
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