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Boss: Tichondrius Spec: Arcane Tip: During your conserve phase build up 4 charges based on the blood spawn timer and throw out a barrage as they spawn on top of the boss for some burst cleave. This is not a good idea if the Tainted Blood heals up from a melee hit on the tank afterwards, good only f...

No one knows about the future, at the start of WOD they buffed/nerfed classes during the first month of the expansion, so regardless where you put your points its going to be a gamble. Fortunately we will have time to level up the other artifacts as well before the expansion is over.

I can volunteer to write a basic guide (kind of how to play wow but from a mage perspective) : Content: Keybinding UI How important is it to follow the rotation? - testing - training - troubleshooting How important is gear? How important is flask/food/rune/intellect pots/enchants/gems? +any other ba...

Assuming you run the single target prismatic crystal + UM + IF combo and it's conserve phase: After a while I started being able to keep track of arcane charges and get an intuitive feel for my mana levels, I usually don't have to look at UI to keep track of stacks, and I only need to check my manal...

Yes please do post recent logs. I found that setting raid type to "heavy movement" and player skill to "good" instead of "elite" matches my own dps a lot better than running simcraftt on default settings. Some really good players (usually in mythic) can do almost 100% correct rotation, but I can't a...

Hi! If you turn on advanced combat logging in network settings, you can see your mana levels in the resources tab and also your rankings, especially the bracket where you can see how your dps compared to the other mages in your ilvl range. I took a quick look on gruul: 1) 29 arcane missile buffs + 6...

2 games not mentioned sofar: UFO: Enemy Unknown Homeworld Both of them have modern remakes, the Homeworld HD remake is really close to the original but with much better UI + graphics. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is more of a new game with new mechanics than a remake, but it still retains the squad based str...