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After one week in BRF, I'm now re-evaluating this "GI v.s. Cauterize" argument. During the week, I've been one-shot by all kinds of things: being stamped to death, being rolled to death, being run over by a train are just some of the more foreseeable ones. The other CoDs include http://www.wowhead.c...

As I said, Acid Torrent completely depends on the tank and healers. We killed Oregorger on Wednesday with a set and planned rotation of cooldowns. We had 2 Ironbarks, 1 Pain Suppression, 1 Life Cocoon, 2 Vigilances and 6 Hands of Sacrifice. And they were all planned along with the tank's defensive ...

Acid Torrent deaths are in no way your fault. If you get one shot by Acid Torrent it's because the tank didn't use his defensive cooldowns or he didn't get external cooldowns. Getting rolled over, well, that one sucks. :D It seems that GI won't prevent being one-shot by getting rolled over from ful...

Besides, tonight, for the very first time in my not-so-long PvE career, I was effectively benched from 2 last progression pulls. I just wish to make a public apology on AT.com for being benched as the only representative of our class in the guild, which risks tarnishing the reputation of our class. ...

Hi Sugge, I studied the second phase of the Oregorger encounter with a fellow raider last night and made a presentation . You might have known these results for months, and they're indeed not mage-specific. However, if you think these results are valid and worthy of sharing, feel free to integrate s...

Still, I and a fellow raider did some study. The results might have been known on Beta (even Alpha) months ago, but it's original for us, so we're still quite exciting. Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wtVRCmeNlj9UKmbcFs4Ce983Izh_uK5LOYjjPvS7iho/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=30000#sl...

Wiped ~30 times on Oregorger during the past two days. Among the 18 deaths I got tonight, there are 6x http://www.wowhead.com/spell=155897 , 4x http://www.wowhead.com/spell=156240 and 3x run over. Got one-shot by http://www.wowhead.com/spell=156240 multiple times today and yesterday. https://www.war...

Killed H Hans&Franz, but I don't have a screen capture. Because I died to Pulverize, which make me felt that I'm carried thru a kill. During the entire night, I was among the people who take comparatively less damage (and fatality) from Pulverize, but that doesn't matter the slightest, because I die...

Besides this I got another shoe from trash and YET ANOTHER shoe from bonus roll. You need two shoes to make a pair. :lol: K, "pair of shoes". You know I'm not a native speaker of English. Anyway, after reading Komma's reply in the other post, I was planning to switch to Arcane tonight when this htt...

Good luck in BRF. Hoping you guys found another mage, I know how annoying being the only one in a raid group can be!

Should I forward this to my raid leader?

Besides this I got another shoe from trash and YET ANOTHER shoe from bonus roll.

Mastery doesn't have any break points that would change the effectiveness of your burning or conserving. Right now everyone has access to the same gear in Highmaul that does't have a ton of mastery and Arcane still does well and the rotations you have seen are based on this gear. call_action_list,n...

If it's a mass AOE fight, Fire will perform the best even with full multistrike gear...Arcane will probably give you the best numbers regardless of your enchants...mastery is very strong for both Arcane and Fire. The following discussion are not backed up by sim/parse, which means I'll be grateful ...

Sorry to ask the same question again - but in a raid with other people it doesn't make sense to go for 5 different set pieces (3 same, +pants for Arc, +gloves for Fire) when others are competing for vanq 4 sets, right? The offset pants ( Turret mechanic legs ) seem like they can be the best choice ...

What you should aim for is firstly to get the 4-set bonus. After that you will start picking up pieces that are already better for your current equipment, that piece will be best in slot for either Arcane and Fire . Eventually you will take a path leaning towards either Arcane of Fire and start pic...

If I want to compare two different sets of talents in simcraft. How do I do it? I managed to load two automatic profiles but then there is no gear. If I just load two default profiles and change the talents, the action priority will be the same. Are there any profiles I could import? If you had act...

...that includes Beastlord Darmac ... I don't see how should Frost be inferior in this fight. Here is my plan: save http://www.wowhead.com/spell=84714 when a http://www.wowhead.com/spell=154975 is imminent. Right as it is cast, put a http://www.wowhead.com/spell=112948 on Darmac, then when the adds...

As I've never got the chance to participate in Beta, some of these questions might seem somewhat ignorant. Thanks in advance for responding to them. 1. "If you’re playing with a bunch of slacking(stacking?) melee’s, interrupt http://www.wowhead.com/spell=156879 ": will the ranged group stack outside...

Question: I noticed that you never mentioned http://www.wowhead.com/spell=158140 . Is it very easily dodgable by an Arcane mage (which is NOT the impression I get from Beta video), or do we just dodge as other classes do and nothing perculiar? No of course not :) I had somehow completely forgotten ...

Question: I noticed that you never mentioned http://www.wowhead.com/spell=158140. Is it very easily dodgable by an Arcane mage (which is NOT the impression I get from Beta video), or do we just dodge as other classes do and nothing perculiar?