Pasture

It's easily solved by making sure you have a Boomkin with the mages.

 

krazytoast

Last night, my guild had our first attempt on Heroic Faction Champions in 25 man, but we were having various different issues. One question that I have been scouring the web for is: Should a frost or arcane PVP spec help for this particular fight? Myself and some of the other mages were thinking frost PVP for the improved snares, but arcane PVP for the reduced resistance to Counterspell and Polymorph.

Thanks for the feedback!

 

• Seonid

A PvP spec is really not necessary, I've always done it as PvE Arcane. However each raid is different so if you happen to have a PvP spec as your secondary, then by all means try it and see how it works for you. There is no "right" answer as such, whatever you find works the best for you and the raid.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

 

Shaitans

Here is a really in-depth discussion regarding the threat of Faction Champs.

World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Faction Champions AI Behavior Analysis

The discussion, in terms of Mages, would appear to support a conclusion that Ice Armor and/or an Ice Armor glyph would be about the best you can do in terms of improving survivability while using a normal PvE spec. Obviously, a PvP spec would increase the survivability even more; however, you pretty much need two PvE specs (arcane and FFB) to clear ToGC anyways, so I doubt it's worth the respec for that one fight because you will eventually need two PvE specs in one run to clear it.

 

krazytoast

Thank you very much for your feedback!