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Forum: Mages 02/23/11, 11:24 AM

Replies: 783 Cataclysm Fire Mage Compendium Views: 3,965,643 Posted By epiphenom Their reply seems to indicate that they don't... Their reply seems to indicate that they don't understand that simultaneous crits are not the only source of munching. Although removing periodic ignites will lessen the frequency of situations where...

Forum: Mages 10/09/09, 4:46 PM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom Yeah. I factored in 200ms of latency. That... Yeah. I factored in 200ms of latency. That said, with both of us using the same equation I can be fairly confident the number is about right.

Forum: Mages 10/08/09, 5:26 PM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom Unless I left something out, it looks like at... Unless I left something out, it looks like at ~1052 haste you can triple-count this new set bonus (hot streak + 3*fireball).

Forum: Mages 10/08/09, 4:48 PM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom Good catch. I did not account for either of... Good catch. I did not account for either of those two haste sources. Factoring them in, I still have results higher than yours (~1090 haste) but it's definitely in reachable territory now. I don't...

Forum: Mages 10/08/09, 3:47 AM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom It is interesting, but I'm not sure if it's... It is interesting, but I'm not sure if it's reachable without cooldowns. Presuming that it doesn't apply to the GCD incurred by consuming the hot streak (using a fire example for now), you'd need a...

Forum: Public Discussion 08/04/09, 10:50 PM

Replies: 111 Algalon Views: 61,460 Posted By epiphenom The latter scenario obtained during my guild's... The latter scenario obtained during my guild's second Algalon-10 kill. He cast an enraged BB at <3%, and three of us jumped into portals while the rest remained outside and died. Upon emergence,...

Forum: Mages 06/30/09, 4:17 PM

Replies: 1,054 General Mage Discussion and Information Views: 908,572 Posted By epiphenom I don't really see this as a change to buff Fire... I don't really see this as a change to buff Fire AoE as it is a way to allow us to deal damage to multiple non-AoEable targets at once, which typically isn't a strength of our class. If it is...

Forum: Mages 06/23/09, 6:22 PM

Replies: 1,054 General Mage Discussion and Information Views: 908,572 Posted By epiphenom Replenishment works off maximum mana, not base... Replenishment works off maximum mana, not base mana. Going with around 23k max mana, old replenishment was 287.5 mp5, new replenishment is 230 mp5, and the net change is +8.5 mp5. People will...

Forum: Mages 06/23/09, 4:33 PM

Replies: 1,054 General Mage Discussion and Information Views: 908,572 Posted By epiphenom Yes, since LB ticks will no longer generate... Yes, since LB ticks will no longer generate ignites. The final explosion may or may not be considered periodic. I hope this is accidental, just like the original Empowered Fire at 1% was an...

Forum: Mages 06/18/09, 9:56 PM

Replies: 1,054 General Mage Discussion and Information Views: 908,572 Posted By epiphenom I absolutely concede the point. I related the... I absolutely concede the point. I related the large number of Shaman changes in 3.2 to their Q&A, but clearly I was making a bad logical connection. Ours is up now and you were basically...

Forum: Mages 06/18/09, 5:44 PM

Replies: 1,054 General Mage Discussion and Information Views: 908,572 Posted By epiphenom I'm hopeful that these are just preliminary and... I'm hopeful that these are just preliminary and that mage iteration isn't complete for 3.2 just yet. It seems more likely, at any rate, than that they have considered these changes carefully and...

Forum: Mages 03/24/09, 6:42 PM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom This is what we wanted from a selfish buff, and... This is what we wanted from a selfish buff, and moreover it goes at least partway to countering the nerf we received to the debuff itself. The glyph slot is still an issue, but they don't seem...

Forum: Mages 03/24/09, 4:16 AM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom I don't think the reasoning behind this Improved... I don't think the reasoning behind this Improved Scorch change is particularly difficult to understand. It's been plainly obvious from what Ghostcrawler has said and done that he, and by extension...

Forum: Mages 03/23/09, 12:12 AM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom I'm mostly agreeing with you. I wasn't making... I'm mostly agreeing with you. I wasn't making the point that unpredictable AoE happens in every hard encounter, only that it is in the toolbox of things that encounter designers employ to make...

Forum: Mages 03/22/09, 6:40 PM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom Yes. I appreciate Ghostcrawler posting in the... Yes. I appreciate Ghostcrawler posting in the mage threads, but their value is seriously reduced by the number of low quality responses cluttering them up. The truth is that the vast majority of...

Forum: Mages 03/19/09, 7:10 PM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom GC could have benefited from thinking a little... GC could have benefited from thinking a little bit more about his example. KT has five separate evocation-disrupting abilities (fissure, mind control, ice block, mana bomb, aoe frostbolt) on...

Forum: Mages 03/19/09, 4:59 AM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom I, for one, was never expecting anything more... I, for one, was never expecting anything more than a band-aid solution, and fairly unsurprisingly that's what we got. If there is anything surprising about it, it's how bad of a band-aid it is. ...

Forum: Mages 03/18/09, 4:36 PM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom If they attach decent spirit scaling to it, we... If they attach decent spirit scaling to it, we will. Especially with the change coming so late in the patch process, it's likely to be a band-aid solution no matter what. So why not make it a good...

Forum: Mages 03/18/09, 6:33 AM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom There's nothing wrong with it, if you believe... There's nothing wrong with it, if you believe that a) the mage mana system is otherwise fine or b) that the problem is too large to be completely solved in 3.1, especially given all the other things...

Forum: Mages 03/03/09, 2:29 AM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom The larger structural problem with Evocation... The larger structural problem with Evocation failures is that they're so swingy that it's impossible to balance an encounter properly around them. When one of the now-typical "incoming AoE damage"...

Forum: Mages 02/06/09, 2:24 AM

Replies: 1,700 Upcoming Mage Changes in 3.1 Views: 541,015 Posted By epiphenom Extraordinarily disappointing. Hopefully the... Extraordinarily disappointing. Hopefully the nerf list is equally short. From what I can tell, this is really just one change: Improved Water Elemental -> Replenishment. This is a bit of a strange...

Forum: Mages 01/26/09, 9:56 PM

Replies: 3,728 The Arcane thread Views: 3,451,564 Posted By epiphenom I think we just got hotfixed. As of right now... I think we just got hotfixed. As of right now for me, casting Arcane Missiles consumes the Blast debuff immediately, and at no point can you chain in a Barrage with extra damage. Anyone else...

Forum: Mages 01/22/09, 8:53 PM

Replies: 3,728 The Arcane thread Views: 3,451,564 Posted By epiphenom This is almost precisely my experience, and... This is almost precisely my experience, and highlights that for all of Arcane's supposed advantage in mobility, the current Arcane and its rotations are profoundly immobile compared to FFB. Aside...

Forum: Mages 01/08/09, 12:43 PM

Replies: 216 Concerning Mana Management: Spirit, Evocation, Gems Views: 45,805 Posted By epiphenom "Planning" is a fairly tired old canard in the... "Planning" is a fairly tired old canard in the mage mana discussion, in my opinion. It's usually used synonymously with the idea that you should know precisely how much mana you should consume for a...

Forum: Mages 01/05/09, 2:23 AM

Replies: 216 Concerning Mana Management: Spirit, Evocation, Gems Views: 45,805 Posted By epiphenom I would add a third point to this: (3) trying to... I would add a third point to this: (3) trying to make dps more like healers in order to make spirit more universally useful is a fundamentally flawed approach. With Arcane Blast in TBC, they tried...

Forum: Mages 12/12/08, 10:24 PM

Replies: 887 Upcoming mage changes Views: 299,039 Posted By epiphenom Yes, the tooltip reflects the damage in this way,... Yes, the tooltip reflects the damage in this way, but the tooltips with talents are and continue to be completely inaccurate with respect to +damage gear. Taking Fire Power (+10% damage to fire...

Forum: Mages 09/25/08, 3:47 PM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom This is actually the same complaint which I have... This is actually the same complaint which I have about Incanter's Absorption, which has passed through a lot of beta builds without being touched or even really thought about. The problem with it is...

Forum: Mages 09/12/08, 3:15 PM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom It would make sense, but unfortunately that's not... It would make sense, but unfortunately that's not the case. I popped it on a few bosses last night to test, and in all cases I and my images were all facing the same way. When I got teleported,...

Forum: Mages 09/10/08, 3:01 PM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom I don't think that was FFB's purpose, at any... I don't think that was FFB's purpose, at any particular time, only a use that it could theoretically be put to. Even if it was, it's not a niche that needs filling. In serious raid content, you can...

Forum: Mages 09/05/08, 2:42 AM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom If I'm understanding the code section correctly,... If I'm understanding the code section correctly, hits of 3481 and crits of 6971 are way off. Perhaps you're coefficienting it at 43%, when it's actually (1.5/3.5)/3 to account for the...

Forum: Mages 08/30/08, 11:44 PM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom Sure. With Burnout it's 1.75*1.4. With CSD... Sure. With Burnout it's 1.75*1.4. With CSD effect and Burnout it's 1.8175*1.4. What it isn't is 2*1.4.

Forum: Mages 08/30/08, 8:18 PM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom Spell crits are 150%. Fire + Ignite is 1.5*1.4. Spell crits are 150%. Fire + Ignite is 1.5*1.4.

Forum: Mages 08/29/08, 2:52 AM

Replies: 5,355 WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3.3 live) Views: 3,112,824 Posted By epiphenom And then they'll buff fire damage by 15% (or... And then they'll buff fire damage by 15% (or more), either through an increase to base damage or through talents. Is that not obvious? I pointed out in the old thread that all vulnerability bonuses...

Forum: Public Discussion 07/29/08, 11:40 PM

Replies: 291 Kil'Jaeden Views: 95,464 Posted By epiphenom Strongly agree with Natural. To add, we tried... Strongly agree with Natural. To add, we tried exactly the same three-tank system and had almost a month of essentially constant failure. After replacing the protection warrior, we had the KJ kill...

Forum: Class Mechanics 07/29/08, 1:36 AM

Replies: 4,786 [Mage] WotLK Talent Preview / Discussion Views: 768,715 Posted By epiphenom I'm somewhat disappointed in the direction... I'm somewhat disappointed in the direction they're taking with Imp Scorch. I'm not a fan of vulnerabilities since, once DPS output is balanced in the end, they're inevitably factored in (as they...

Forum: Public Discussion 04/30/08, 1:29 PM

Replies: 442 Eredar Twins Views: 143,581 Posted By epiphenom It isn't a matter of it being a binary state. It... It isn't a matter of it being a binary state. It isn't that either the targeting is all LoS or LoS is irrelevant. Shadow image targeting is the weirdest and, for us, the most frustrating thing...

Forum: Class Mechanics 04/24/08, 3:36 AM

Replies: 729 [Mage] 2.4 TC, aka Guys in Blue Dresses Views: 217,949 Posted By epiphenom It's 50% haste to get to 1 second GCDs spamming... It's 50% haste to get to 1 second GCDs spamming Arcane Blast. Remember that %haste does not equal %reduction in casting time. Also, percentage-based haste effects stack multiplicatively with each...

Forum: Public Discussion 04/23/08, 1:30 PM

Replies: 429 Felmyst Views: 169,701 Posted By epiphenom Arrange six groups (tank + 5 groups) in a... Arrange six groups (tank + 5 groups) in a triangle formation with each side being slightly less than 40 yards, then adjust to fit. We aim at a triangle but the actual result isn't really all that...

Forum: Public Discussion 04/21/08, 9:23 PM

Replies: 429 Felmyst Views: 169,701 Posted By epiphenom Not at all. So long as you keep the number of... Not at all. So long as you keep the number of people hit down to about five, and everyone in the group is aware enough to employ Arcane Protection Potions and Healthstones when necessary, it's not...

Forum: Public Discussion 04/21/08, 7:37 PM

Replies: 429 Felmyst Views: 169,701 Posted By epiphenom No, it's not like Akil'zon. It really is 3600... No, it's not like Akil'zon. It really is 3600 damage per second, but you don't need arcane resistance to heal through it, although I'm sure it helps.

Forum: Mages 04/20/08, 2:46 AM

Replies: 1,206 Sweet Informational Thread Views: 858,723 Posted By epiphenom Due to the way WWS and other tools measure DPS,... Due to the way WWS and other tools measure DPS, firespec DPS will look worse on any fight with downtime since it counts your 20ish damage fireball DoT ticks as part of your DPS. Total damage went...

Forum: Public Discussion 04/10/08, 11:53 AM

Replies: 429 Felmyst Views: 169,701 Posted By epiphenom Right. Also, they count as suicides, so no... Right. Also, they count as suicides, so no repair bill. Helpful if you obviously won't win.

Forum: Mages 04/09/08, 3:20 PM

Replies: 1,206 Sweet Informational Thread Views: 858,723 Posted By epiphenom Occasionally Ignites roll when casting hasted... Occasionally Ignites roll when casting hasted fireballs. The suggestion in your quoted tip, however, is more likely to lead to a loss of Ignite damage rather than a gain. phate300's post is full of...

Forum: Class Mechanics 04/07/08, 12:38 AM

Replies: 3,840 [Mage] TC after 2.3 Views: 879,326 Posted By epiphenom I think it's marginally better to use Heart of... I think it's marginally better to use Heart of the Pit in the offhand and wear the Mana Attuned Band over RAK.

Forum: Mages 04/06/08, 4:19 PM

Replies: 1,206 Sweet Informational Thread Views: 858,723 Posted By epiphenom Firstly, you probably want to post followup... Firstly, you probably want to post followup questions in the "Help me please" thread. This thread is for established information regarding raiding as a mage. Answers: 1. Far from optimal. 2. If...

Forum: User Interface and AddOns 03/29/08, 9:14 PM

Replies: 2,359 Omen - Ace Threat Meter Views: 540,469 Posted By epiphenom I'd like to know this as well. To clarify the... I'd like to know this as well. To clarify the problem, pet threat is not resetting correctly on Brutallus, and the first taunt is completely disrupting the chart.

Forum: Public Discussion 03/24/08, 1:06 AM

Replies: 458 The ZA timed run Views: 227,849 Posted By epiphenom Hatcher packs are easier. There's also more than... Hatcher packs are easier. There's also more than one of them. Going left, there is exactly one trash pack you need to fight. It's slightly harder, but unless you completely cannot handle flame...

Forum: Mages 03/21/08, 4:38 PM

Replies: 1,206 Sweet Informational Thread Views: 858,723 Posted By epiphenom Please stop posting misinformation in the... Please stop posting misinformation in the Informational Thread. All your parses show is that it's possible to beat Void Reaver and Solarian when the majority of the raid is performing poorly, and...

Forum: Mages 03/20/08, 2:54 PM

Replies: 2,576 Help me please? Views: 526,091 Posted By epiphenom Neither. Level-based partials happen because... Neither. Level-based partials happen because your target is above level 70, are occasionally very random, and are not affected by any statistic that you can increase. Any correlation you may...

Forum: Mages 03/18/08, 6:58 PM

Replies: 1,206 Sweet Informational Thread Views: 858,723 Posted By epiphenom I don't think you understand. It's not a spec... I don't think you understand. It's not a spec issue, it's a skill issue, and gear has very little to do with it. The reason your wife is beating equally geared fire mages is because they're not...

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