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The DB line smells of Alexstrasza's Fury, iirc they moved talents around on that tier with prepatch, have you been using an old /simc string by any chance? Haste is my top simming secondary as well, even with top gear and IF. There could be several reaons for it: like robomage getting another Pyro i...

You can't assign a DPS value since not dying is priceless and how often Cauterize is likely to save you is completely dependant on the particular encounter and the level of execution that you and your raid can pull off. As a rule of thumb Frost's defensive kit is more valuable if the encounter has f...

Demonic Inquisition
Difficulties: all
Spec: Frost

Tip: Splitting Ice won't cleave if you face away from the second boss.

Is there actually any boss where it makes sense to play GS over TV? Between Augur, Elisande and Guldan there is only one parse with GS (23rd/32 on Augur). And judging by what I saw on their kill video even Razlopp seems to have switched specs on Elisande. Don't get me wrong, I have no itention of sh...

For me BC was close to 20k dps ahead of LW last time I simed myself. I'd guess that the value of both talents greatly depends on whether or not Robomage can use the extra FoF proccs from WJ to make it to another FO without droping IV or not and thus the choice is very individual.

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator) Frost Mage Feedback Thanks for the detailed look. We agree there could be some cleanup around proc minutiae and Winter's Chill timing, including getting rid of the possibility of the double Ice Lance. Few other...

Great idea, thanks a lot!

Is it possible that Mirror images can spawn flowers in this fight? We did botanist yesterday (hero not mythic) and had the issue that I got targeted by the flowers while having mirror images up. I ran but when the flowers reached my old positions they spawned 3 new pairs of flowers. Did anyone else...

Shard isn't even bis for 2 out of 3 specs and you can't unlock its full potential on like half the fights since you don't lust on pull.. Seems an OTT nerf to me.

Maybe Kindling hits a couple of timing sweet spot, because you don't have to sit on Combustion for ages in p2 (to have it ready at the start of p3) and maybe you get a third Combustion out of it in p3?! That's about the only reason I can imagine why you'd take it. Personally I went with Meteor, CiS ...

I'd worry about that when the patch hits live servers. With titanforged and all that fun stuff GS mages won't be the only ones thinking about wearing old tier pieces and I'm pretty sure Blizzard wouldn't want that to happen. Remember WOD when they nerfed Fire's T17 to the ground but waited until aft...

I'd say just sim or try it out, maybe do some LFR with it, so you won't get flamed or kicked if it's too soon :D . I was 53 paragon into fire and 35 into Frost (897ilvl/Magnum+Shard/2pc) when I tried it (first time touching Frost this addon, so my play wasn't exactly perfect) and the spec seemed to ...

Thanks a lot for the guide!

Further concern to me (as I don't have it) is that I'm pretty sure fire only ranks as high as it does (and that being 6th worst spec over all encounters) because Drackli's is completely insane (at least for padding) on a lot of fights in NH. dont see your problem here. the only fights where padding...

We also have to factor in that (at least according to the sims I've seen) our setboni are pretty weak, which probably means that we will fall behind even (a bit) further over the next few weeks. Tbh what worries me most is that they said Arcane DPS is supposedly fine when the spec is performing pret...

If you hold your meteor a couple seconds into combustion you will get the auto meteor crit WITH 5 stacks of pyretic incantion. Def worth holding imo. I just save a fireblast charge to use while I am using a gcd on meteor so I'm not losing out any practically any time. Better check your math there. ...

1. u need to cast meteor BEFORE you poping combustion (so with the delay falls in combustion) that will boost a bit your opening and put you in a better place for all the fight. 2. i feel like playing conflagation on ST in 7.1.5 3. use prolonged power with MI. 4. use well your blasts and pi so u ha...

I think it's not only a question of damage, but also of utility, Innervate especially seems ridiculously strong, while Block is very narrow (as a raid utility) and also provided by Hunters in a (mostly) better form.

Bracer -> m+ EoA
Shard -> some emissary

I wonder if they realize that taking away Ice Floes already nerfs the bracers significantly, especially for progress fights.