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My guild's strategy allowed me to use both Tome and Prophecy as Arcane running SN/IF/AO. I found that saving Tome for the first Gorebound Spirit is tremendously useful. As well, getting a Doom Nova proc on that add (which is tanked near the boss and away from our soul stacking point) causes it to ab...

My buddy Krazyito makes a lot of really cool WeakAuras. He graciously set up one for Prophecy of Fear which: Appears when you apply Mark of Doom to an enemy. Shows a ten second duration timer, as well as the enemy's name in text. Disappears when the debuff expires or the enemy dies. The aura can be ...

From my quick glance through your logs, you seem to have very low Combustion values. I'd recommend reading one of the many fire guides and threads for how best to improve your Combustions.

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I've mainly been following the WoD Mage Compendium , which now contains BiS lists for all three specs. Before fire was updated, however, I compiled my own list of drops and what I considered best for fire based off of Dutchmagoz's stat priorities . This list varied slightly from Lexi's updated fire ...

It's not that I'm not playing optimal, but everyone has their play styles, I am always #1-#3 DPS in raids with people of same gear level as me, obeying mechanics and such... Always trying to know more about my class. I used to be a Mana Burn adept at the start of WoD but never stopped looking for w...

I'm going to be getting into CMs in a couple of weeks myself. For some input, I found this Challenge Mode BiS list. If a more experienced mage has any corrections to this list, feel free to share!

My guild finally got Brackenspore down on Wednesday, after much trouble with Mind Fungi, Spore Shooters, and Decay interrupts. After adding in a good shadow priest and getting our flamethrower people to help out, Spore Shooters started dying incredibly fast. Here's the logs for Spore Shooters on our...

Another Weak Aura update. I switched to using Clean Icons for my aura border through Masque, and needed to space them out differently as a result. As well, my ignite and combustion value trackers stopped working. It appears to be something up with the round() function provided by the WoW API. I swit...

Shinboars - thanks for that, it was bugging the crap out of me. Based on your profile and your high Multistrike, I would assume your main spec is Frost? Or is that just the gear that dropped for you? Yep, my main specialization is indeed frost. I play arcane for a few fights here and there (i.e. Bu...

I'm also really confused as to why Meteor adds to Ignite , or that people think it does, when there's nothing in any of the skill descriptions that seems to indicate that it should do so. The Ignite page on wowhead has a box you can click called 'Meteor'. It brings up the separate tooltip Ignite ha...

I know its not a really good tip but arcane is much stornger on this fight than frost which is one of the weakest speccs :P Might be the easiest solution :P Eight of the top ten mage parses on Mythic Brackenspore are frost. Only one is arcane. At the 50th percentile, frost is only slightly behind a...

Update from my December 14th post. I'm now starting to learn fire for upcoming Mythic Tectus progression. So, I thought of the WeakAuras I will need and crafted the following: Combustion : Tracks the duration and the rounded value (i.e. 1100 is shown as 1.1, 2500 shown as 2.5) of your current target...

Utilizing different sources (including this thread), I've put together a bar of 45x45 icon trackers that I use for most of my information. I have the following: 1. Buff duration timers for my trinket (Ragewing's Firefang), the Orc racial (Blood Fury), and Arcane Power/Icy Veins. 2. A duration timer ...