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I can only comment on the first three bosses, since I haven't done more in Mythic - a quick glance at the logs showed me that you never seem to take Supernova, especially on Kormrok pooling 2 x SN for the hands gives sick damage. For assault its also superior to UM imho, because you have controlled ...

PoF was made for Arcane, I think you're always better off using Tome + Gaze on Frost.

First of all, thanks for answering, and secondly, yes, I am dumping every AM i have before going into AP.
Often, I found myself Evocating when AP has still 2-4 seconds left, so I decided to dump the AM I get off the first 1-2 AB I cast after going into AP. Maybe I should refrain from doing that.

Hey guys, I'm kinda disappointed with my current Arcane performance. Although I feel like I actually know what to do (been studying all the guides here and trying to follow everything), but compared to other people around my iLvl, I guess I'm underperforming (80k dps at now 716 iLvl with HC WF ToSW;...

You don't ignore AM during crystal and outside AM at three stacks, burn as long as Arcane Power is up but make sure its not glyphed or you will probably go OoM.

Ok, thanks, and yes Ap is unglyphed ofc.

I meant burning until ~0% mana instead of the usual 50% rule. I find myself quickly reaching very low mana levels while burning with Tome, especially when I have no AM procs while still àbove ~70% (if I understood correctly, using AM procs at lower mana levels is actually not worth?). My understandi...

With Tome, do we burn until at zero mana levels ?
I recall I read that somewhere here, but I cant find the passage anymore.

Yes, that is the correct way.

Weave in an AB to avoid staying at mana cap, but only if you have enough time to dump all the remaining AM into the mark afterwards.

~4.2% nerf to arcane and ~0.1% nerf to fire ST, before both scaling even more out of control with 725 gear leaves us pretty well off IMHO. The tier bonuses don't appear to be as good, but that arcane trinket seems unreal good. Makes me wonder if it's Fire all the way then, ST + AoE fights. Also tak...

So it is goodbye top of the charts then?

MOD: While technically on topic, this post doesn't really help anyone. Can we keep the discussion to the patch notes or personal in PTR experience. Thanks.

Good rule of thumb is to have ~3-4 seconds left on LB right before the adds jump off the train. This should leave enough time for your DK to grip them. Then spread so theyll explode instantly.

I was in the same spot a few weeks ago, when I was just switching specs from pure Frost to Arcane / Fire. Toughest challenge for me is mastering the positioning in fight as Arcane, thats what makes the spec actually more difficult than Frost to me. Arcane's rotation / priority system might let the s...

Great guide!

Do you guys think Frost will stay viable in BLF+ content, or do you think it makes more sense to go with Arcane for Single Target and Fire for cleave fights? Since the latter specs scale better with gear.
A question that bugs me currently.