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Cast Arcane Barrage if you have 4 Arcane Charges and you have less than 60% Mana (80% Mana if you would cap on Rune of Power charges before Arcane Power is ready) or you have 4 Arcane Charges and there are 3 or more targets. Can someone ELI5 this to me, please? I don't understand why does the RoP p...

Hello and thanks for that guide. I haven't played frost in legion at all, last time I played it was with Archimonde's trinket back in HFC - that was a slightly different frost. So far I'm getting ~92-98 parses on normal and heroic bosses, but there are two points I feel I can improve a lot, so I wan...

I don't really understand what's going on in this thread. Almost like the patch notes I read is completely different from the ones you guys read. The ones I read indicate a clear nerf to arcane (which also seems to be backed up by initial simming in the arcane subforum) and a clear buff to frost. Ye...

I'm not judging things by my opinions, you can check the logs for all bosses by yourself and see that almost no one in the top logs uses cinderstorm and/or delays sinew uses. The 1 guy at the top proves nothing about what we were saying. Well... On all bosses, there's like one cinderstorm user for ...

I'm not judging things by my opinions, you can check the logs for all bosses by yourself and see that almost no one in the top logs uses cinderstorm and/or delays sinew uses.

The problem is, if you can fit in an extra combustion with kindling, there is no reason to go cinderstorm. Even one extra combustion is enough for Kindling to be better than even perfectly used CiS. AND if you're going kindling (due to being able to fit an extra combustion), you do NOT delay that ki...

and how do you manage kindling+sinew Refer to my post on page 5 for Sinew rotation with kindling dont read his post he's talking about his own experience which is clearly wrong 'Clearly wrong' is the description for people who claim that you need to wait for combustion and/or stick to Cinderstorm. ...

I checked out my parse on heroic Ilgynoth running 855 Sinew and 855 Oakheart's with Kindling and Conflagration. I used the Sinew on Cd 3 times throughout the fight resulting in one combusted proc which was the opener. The other two procs were snapshotted with RoP and praying to the crit rng gods fo...

After ~80 wipes on Ilgynoth(M) and almost killing him, I'd like to disagree on Kindling. I can use it THREE times before the first heart phase, and it's UP again on the heart phase itself. First time on pull for 2 tank adds; second time when the first small tendons appear; third time when the small ...

It seems like there's some conflicting info between this thread and the sims results thread. Most importantly, the 'basic' stat weights being completely different in two threads. Which one is more up-to-date? Both I'd say. Stat weight HIGHLY depends on your current gear and artifact level. Best sol...

It seems like there's some conflicting info between this thread and the sims results thread. Most importantly, the 'basic' stat weights being completely different in two threads. Which one is more up-to-date?

okay figured out some opener for rankings



I'm, done with openers now

That first fire blast was a gamble though, wasn't it? If the scorch didn't crit it would've fallen apart, also wasting several seconds of RoP...

Going to try Xhul mythic today. I really wonder about how the whole haste stacking shennanigans apply to this fight, seeing so much of our damage will be coming from AoE - SN and AO. I currently have a *lot* of various mythic pieces, including different weapons and offset pieces. Even though I have ...

Mythic iskar: three questions.

1) Tome 720, Gaze 710, PoF 715. Which two to use?
2) Talents for arcane. Nova, Orb, Rune?
3) AP. Glyphed or not?

Hello there. Wanted to share a couple of thoughts regarding the default frost profile used in RAID_T18H: 1) The tier legs are 695, for some unfathomable reason. 2) The offset choice is... strange to say the least. I think it's already been proven several million times that archimonde shoulders is th...

Hello fellow mages, Here's my current gear: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/soulflayer/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE/advanced" target="_blank I've just got myself a BBoY heroic (non-wf) and I wonder whether I should switch KTT to it. I really won't be able to get any new breakpoint and will r...