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Simply saying. If you want more dps on Kingaroth, you should have your CDs rdy for every add spawn time (or at least almost ready which means to have it off CD within 4-5 sec when adds appear). If you want more dps on Varimathras, you can delay some of your procs when the shadow is about to spawn. P...

I will check your performance using Vari fight as an example. And here are a few things stand out: 1. Your EB has 80% crit rate which must be 100%. Standing too close to the boss may cause such things though. 2. Why did you use legendary helm instead of 2t20+4t21 with bracers? 3. Why did you cast Bl...

If you have enough (or even more than enough) crit than it's 100% your mistakes with shattering spells. There are 3 core situations: 1. Just a Brain Freeze proc. If you gain just BF after casting FBs then it simply goes like this: FB > Flurry > Lance. 2. Just Fingers of Frost. FB > Lance (or lances ...

I used to play with TWM since I started WoW and till the Antorus. Now I'm with WA. About your performance (I took the 1st boss as an example): Your stats are bad. Your first goal must be crit untill 33% or a bit less since you have injector. General stat priority looks like this: crit untill 30-33% ...

Of course crit/mastery. More cirt is obviously fire mage's everything atm. Bigger crits topping with more mastery mean better ignites.

You have purple logs on every boss you've killed multiple times except Imonar whom you killed just once and obviously died during the fight. Purple log is a sign that you do well. If you want orange logs you just need luck (more bracer procs) + shorter fights.

Your EB didn't crit at the pull because your Flurry didn't have time to hit the target before that. From my experience, the reason can be the sequence of the abilities. You did it EB > IV > Flurry > ... which is not a mistake at all but can have undesirable effect that you obviously had. Such thing ...

Idk. I can find a group even as frost which is currently worse in AoE than arcane and maybe slightly or at the same level with it in terms of ST dps. Maybe people haven't seen many arcane mages during their m+ runs so they don't know it's efficiency. Or maybe they are frustrated how arcane mages do ...

If you want to know why top10 frost mages have such dps then go to Replay and watch it in slow motion.
If you want to learn how to play well (which means do both rotation and encounter mechanics right) go watch Rikh streams and youtube videos.

If I remember correctly 980 ilvl starts to overcome mythic t20 (930-940) for a little bit.

It's double lancing.

1. Not really. But if you already start another FB having some FoFs then finish it and dump all procs with lances. 2. If it's question like "Should I cast unbuffed lance?" then short answer is - no, you should try to avoid casting unbuffed lances no matter what. With only 1 exception - you can cast ...

That dps is pretty much ok with your gear if you follow the tactics. If you do nothing but tunnel the boss then your dps is low. To clarify the situation - 1.3m dps was a common number within frost mages during 1st mythic week. Yes, you munched 4 BF procs. You should use the 2nd pot with your BL and...

In general every CD should be cast asap unless otherwise provided by an encounter (e.g you save your CDs for adds on Kingaroth). Also if you are able to sync BL with IV you should do it, But if your BL (due to the ring) is up but IV is not (for example, your raid gave BL at the start and you can do ...

200 latency is annoying but before Blizzard "fixed" double lancing mages used to play with 200 ping just for more comfortable 2 lances combo. Even though such high latency can probably impact your gameplay, you still should be able to adapt. I used to play a lot with 170+ latency and was able to sha...

About frost: 1. If you get BF and FoF at the same time while casting FB then you should do FB>Flurry>Lance, if after this combo you again get BF and FoF (or still have FoF) then dump all FoF procs and then start casting FB>Flurry>Lance combo again. 2. Generally speaking - no. 3. Yes. Syncing BL with...

Your crit is very low. You can stack it up to 30-32% with injector and you have to get 33.3% without. It's mandatory to shatter your spells (make them guaranteed crit when the target is frozen - Winter's Chill debuff or FoF proc). You've munched 1 BF proc, not a big deal though. Do not cast non-proc...

Glancing quickly at your parse I noticed a couple things (some of which have already been mentioned) * precast ebonbolt on pull * make sure you always cast flurry IMMEDIATELY after you cast ebonbolt -- there were multiple times when you cast frost bolt right after ebonbolt * your icy veins uptime i...

Are you sure that saving cd's for adds on Kingaroth is a good idea?I mean you need to delay your very first IV for like 50 seconds. Postpone your cd's for something like that is ok but 40-50 seconds seems way too much. Other than that,as people get better and better gear,add phase lasts very short....