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I disagree with your choice of 4pc. Taking chest (mastery/versatility) instead of shoulders (haste/versatility) allows us to get more crit with Chronomatic anomaly's shoulders (crit/mastery) + mastery isn't a terrible stat for cleave fights. Thoughts ? Taking only Nighthold into account (which was ...

Note that I've not done any simming Then you don't have a BiS list, you have a list of random gear that may or may not be best for you. What's best changes based up on your current gear, your current talents and what legendaries you have equipped. There isn't some spreadsheet that's right for every...

Hello, I'm required to have a list for Nighthold by my guild, and I thought I might as well share it. Note that I've not done any simming, I made this list by going through what's available and sorting it out based on the simulations in the sticky threads. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aGF...

Post mildly related.
Is the IcyVeins preview list of loot broken, or does literally all the gear from Karazhan have haste/mastery?

http://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/2 ... n-preview/

Cure for bad trash dps is to accept RoP as part of a rotation and not a cooldown. Ever since I started using RoP then 2x (Phoenix->Fireblast->Flamestrike) on every trash pack I've been dominating pretty much every class other than DH in AoE. Even the demon hunters start lagging behind once they blow...

Any thoughts on this macro I put together? /castsequence reset=60 Combustion,Phoenix's Flames,Fire Blast,Pyroblast,Fire Blast,Pyroblast,Flame On,Fire Blast,Pyroblast,Fire Blast,Pyroblast,Phoenix's Flames,Pyroblast,Rune of Power,Phoenix's Flames,Pyroblast,Fire Blast,Pyroblast I tested it at level 100...

Azuren, what you're asking for is coming. There will be guides and comprehensive posts for everyone as we get closer to launch, just like in every other expansion. The problem is that people are asking for definitive answers now. This is infuriating to the initiated, because they all know those answ...

I personally hated the old combustion, but I understand I might be in a minority. I didn't like the lack of a proper cooldown, the RNG, the reliance on addons to make the most of it, and generally how clunky it was. I really like the new one. It's very powerful, the cooldown feels short, especially ...

Just from what I gathered reading people's impressions and experiences: Pre-patch: Arcane - has ridiculous mana issues + Prophecy of Fear nerf hits it hard. Can be made viable with talent and trinket swaps, but the glory days are over. Frost - people seem to agree it works well but has a low overall...

Title says it all really. I refuse to use PC out of principle, so I run overpowered/arcane orb where applicable. Getting good results, but I was running Unstable Magic up until now (6/13 mythic) and I feel like I should really be using supernova instead for burst and utility with bosses like Xhul'ho...

I think if you are willing to use PC you'll be better off actually playing arcane or fire, who are basically built upon it.
Thank god frost doesn't require it, so I have at least one viable spec to play.

Just at first glance: your enchants and gems are wrong. There are generally two options for T18 arcane: full haste full mastery + warsong I don't know where you got stat weights on the forum here, but you need to remember stat weights in general shift every time a change in your gear occurs, therefo...

@Rinoa I suppose you're right, though I would argue that the time you spend casting frostbolt in CM's is still significant (bosses, strong individual mobs, smaller packs, specific packs). But again, my group was aiming for gold and not competitive time, so our pulls were smaller and safer, which mea...

Tier sets don't work with CM's. Having done 8/8 gold recently I still wouldn't bother with Arcane. Frost is just way too good. Frost bomb+frozen orb absolutely destroys packs of any size. I also went with comet storm+Prophecy of Fear, using CmS exclusively for PoF procs. I was reaching 250k dps on b...

Mode edit: Moved to Q&A 1) Worth it using this combination on HFC? 2) If yes, is there an optimized rotation when water jetting? OBS: The other trinket I thought it's best to go along is Gaze Short answer: no Long answer: Assuming the other trinket you'd take would be Tome, since it's BiS by quite ...

Some people may consider it boring as it's just a full set, but I'm absolutely in love with it. I think it perfectly hits the theme, not to mention the amazing animations. I didn't like the deep cleavage, so I'm wearing a gnomeregan doublet which completes the set perfectly. http://i.imgur.com/KVmQT...

Not a 4th spec, but I've been thinking about making arcane into a melee spec for a while. It would be very simple when you think about it. Flavour effect - Arcane Armament: when in combat, the mage creates a weapon out of pure magic energy to assault his/her foe in close quarters. This weapon could ...

On another note, will we be delaying AP and PC for every ring use? It's a 30s delay every time, but it feels like it might be worth it.

I've seen UM sim quite high, but doesn't it negatively impact our AM proc generation as opposed to SN/NT and so hurt our 2pc/4pc uptime?