Balance of Power - Spell - World of Warcraft can be 4% miss for a Balance Druid. Only gets you to 8% miss though, not past 8.88%.
The double penalty for former binary spells might be a reason, Mark of the Wild is up in the screeny.

If Mark of the Wild causes actualy misses (full resists), those resistance-induced missed cannot be removed by spell hit, only by spell penetration. As far as I know.


Stupid Things to do with Focus Magic

Normally, you cast FM on a party player, they crit with a heal or offensive spell, and you get a 10s buff for 3% crit.

Now, cast FM on someone and duel them:
The proc is a 10s Magic DEBUFF now on the hostile player.
If you have 71+ Mage Armour on, it will only last 5 seconds.

The hell?


Mage Armour

Doesn't reduce channeling time or ticks of Mind Flay nor Drain Soul.
It does reduce the channeling time of Drain Life and Drain Mana though, so they have to be caste every 2 instead of 5 seconds.

It reduces Holy Fire from 7 to 4 ticks though, pretty odd. Vampiric Touch/Immolate goes from 5 to 2, rounded down since the 3rd tick would be after 9s, but the DoT expires after 7.5.


What was your Blizzard crit rate?
Seed doesn't have good talents boosting it, it also is an affliction spell. It does however have absurdly high base damage.

I can't really see it outdamage fully specced Blizzard unless you come out below 70% Blizzrd crit or so.

6.6K seems low. I'm seeing more like 8-12K DPS with fully-talented improved blizzard during MH trash waves depending on which haste buffs are active on me. Warlocks and fire mages were a distant second. I did have to use glyphed mage armor otherwise I was running OOM all the time. Things will be different at level 80, I'm sure. I just hope they don't nerf improved blizzard, because it's ridiculously good fun to see your screen filled with a sea of big yellow numbers.

6.6k is very low. I'm routinely hitting 10k dps spamming blizzard on Hyjal trash and threat capped at that point from doing more. Seed is well behind that...oddly enough, it's the hunters who are placing second in aoe dps in my guild, they can hit 8kish dps on Hyjal trash.

You have to sink a lot of talent points into frost to get the most out of blizzard, but the payoff is definitely there.

I've seen quite a few "Miss" messages in PvP, even the combat log was saying "Miss" and I had PvE gear on me with around 16% hit, this was against a warrior and a paladin. I've read a bit and some places say that a full resist will yield a Miss message. I haven't tested this extensively, but it should be easy enough to check.

I did Hyjal as 53/8 (no Blast Wave, which needs a glyph stupidly bad) and was solidly behind a marks hunter in AoE DPS. Supposedly moonkins do even more. Mages are fun.

And yeah, despite the claims of removing RNG from pvp, there's still a number of random resist% talents that will produce spell misses. I see them with relative frequency.

Are you talented for FoF + Frostbite + Imp. Blizzard + Shatter? They add up to a substantial crit% increase.

I havn't been especially looking out for them but I've not seen any outside of CloS that I can remember, this is taking PvE gear into BGs and running with 10% hit (11% with a goat around, ofcourse). I'm going to go do some duels against players with/without penetration and see if my 90+ base resisntace is causing any 'misses'.

[edit]: Random thought: What if talents like balance of power apply after the hit cap? You have 100% hit chance after gear is considered and balance takes your hit cap against the druid down to 96%? I'm sure if this was the case it would have been reported on by now but its something I'd like to test at some point.

I believe the exact values were 185 Frost resist for Rage and 213 Fire for Supremus. Blizzard did, in fact, release the exact values. Right around the time Sunwell came out, Brady games put out a "Beastiary" strategy guide for World of Warcarft and it included all Boss HP/resistances in it.

Guardians are not a subset of Pets, they're a different mechanic. The two defining features of pets is that they have an action bar, and are in your party. Guardians are not in your party, and they have no action bar. They are, in all senses, normal mobs, distinguished only by being on your side, which usually includes walking with you when out of combat.

An easy comparison for 'minion' versus 'guardian':

Roll a deathknight.

Summon a ghoul. Note 'Guardian' - no action bar; autonomous.

Spec unholy for permanent ghouls. - Note 'minion' - Action bars and no duration.

If theres any differences you need to test between the two types, that's the easiest way I've found to do it. Although spending 10minutes playing between the 2 on the beta, I've not seen any noticeable difference in tings like scaling or performance.

Ah.... So..... not being in the party/raid is why they do not benefit from auras.

I've seen reports of Water Elemental chain casts resulting in an average cast time greater than the standard cast time for Water Bolt.

However.... Mirror Image always cast exactly 4x(1xFireBlast,2xFrostBolt). So are they lasting longer than 30sec or are they nailing their cast times exactly?

Isn't frostbite rather hazardous for innocent bystanders? For example, a mage making do with arcane explosion? I understand that Vashj's striders now strictly follow their aggro list rather than attacking closest target when frozen, but wasn't that a specific change rather than general mob behaviour?