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Fire trinket comparisons are available here: http://downloads.simulationcraft.org/Fr ... _fire.html (from this thread: http://altered-time.com/forum/viewtopic ... r-Trinkets). For the three trinkets you have, HC-Repository and HC-talisman sim the highest.

Note: I have not done the Mythic version of this encounter, so this is going off my experiences in Heroic and having read about the Mythic changes. Given the amount of movement and cleave potential on this fight, I personally think Fire is the only way to go for this encounter. That said, if you ins...

On that specific fight length. How long a fight lasts is the important aspect in determining if not glyphing will hurt you or not. Run that sim on a 4 minute fight and you'll see different results. True, that's why I set the fight length variation to 50%, to try and account for that. I probably als...

I took the liberty of running some sims so we can have actual numbers to look at. This is using the Mage_Arcane_T17B sample profile, Patchwerk fight style, 450sec length, 50% fight length variation. http://i.imgur.com/D5IfSVR.png http://i.imgur.com/M9bj6L0.png http://i.imgur.com/lgesnyg.png Edit: He...

I also had a lot of trouble with Ice floes for a long time, until I eventually bound it to a mouse button (M3 in my case). Since then, I've found it significantly easier to use, since I can hit it with my mouse hand while casting my main nuke with my keyboard hand (bound to 1 for me), and then use e...

How does IB determine which mobs to spread LB too? For example, on Thogar when all the little adds appear (I forget their name), there's more than 6 adds present, so even using the IB glyph you can't spread LB to all of them in one use of IB. If you immediately use IB again (either on the same targe...

While Prismatic Crystal is up, should you use missiles normally (like you would at any other point in the burn phase) provided that the crystal despawning doesn't cause you to miss a tick?

I'm actually still uncertain about that myself. Definitely if you get 3 stacks of AM you should cast it, but beyond that I'm not 100% sure.

I'm still new to Arcane myself, so take this with a grain of salt, but here's what I noticed looking at the first Gruul link. General: You should use Glyph of Arcane Power, and the pop it every other use of Prismatic Crystal. This allows you to get more synchronous uptime between uses of Arcane Powe...

Dutch's guide covers the best way to set up PC. - [With Prismatic Crystal talented]: Firstly, make sure both prismatic crystal and combustion are off cooldown, then: 1. Cast Fireball until Heating Up procs. 2. Cast Inferno Blast to turn Heating Up into Pyroblast! proc. (never interrupt a cast for th...

My general rule of thumb is if I can use Alter Time to cheese a certain mechanic (Thundering Blows on Kromog when combined with Ginvis) I'll use that. Then if there's some regular amount of damage I want to negate (Shatter on Gruul) I'll use Ice Barrier. For all other cases I'll use Flameglow.

AT/GI combo works pretty well for the knockup on Kromog.

I had good luck using Ice Block + Cold Snap, but I'll have to give this a try, since it'll be up for every knockup as opposed to Cold Snap only being available every other.

First thing I notice is that you never used your second int potion. You should use it just before your second prismatic crystal. It also seems like you're not doing your Prismatic Crystal rotation quite right. You want to cast it when you have both Pyroblast! and Heating Up, then use Fireball on the...

Depending on which level 100 talent you choose, I usually do the following for combustion: Kindling: get Pyroblast! and Heating Up Fireball as many Pyroblasts as possible Combustion Prismatic Crystal: get Pyroblast! and Heating Up Prismatic Crystal Fireball as my Pyroblasts as possible Combustion In...

In general, I've heard that Blast Wave is better for single target fights and Living Bomb is better for multi-target. However, for fights with add spawns (such as the Fungal Flesh-Eaters on Brackenspore and the Arcane Aberrations on Imperator Mar'gok), how long do the adds need to be alive and how o...

Great thread. Was just looking for something like this. Evanesce works, as long as you're not casting when it expires. Is this the intended functionality of Evanesce, or the result of a bug? Iceblock / Greater Invis works against Arcane Wrath. When you say "works," do you mean it just prevents all t...

I'm trying to determine the best way to compare talent options and stat weights for different fights in Highmaul. So far I've been mostly looking at the different pre-built fight types to do this. Obviously The Butcher would be a Patchwerk fight, and Tectus seems like a HecticAddCleave fight, but I'...

Right now I'm just grinding out honor so I've just been doing random skirmishes. I'm thinking about forming a 2s team with either a lock or druid guildmate. Not sure what specs they'd play though.

Thanks for the reply. It's actually been turning out okay for battlegrounds, but it's definitely proving more suicidal than I hoped for arenas. May end up having to switch to Frost anyway. What's the best way to use PC in arenas? Should I cast it next to myself to scare away melee? Or try to line it...

I'm primarily a PVE player, but wanted to get into PVP since we're at the start of a new expansion. However, I've been having difficulty finding any guides on PVP basics for mages. Are there any good guides out there I should check out to get started? I'm more interested in arenas than battlegrounds...