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I'm taking issue when reading about incanters flow over rune of power. I don't believe it is truly better than rune of power considering most of arcanes damage will come during arcane power and fitting as much damage into that window is how is been done for a long time with the most success. I just ...

Pretty sure it's been asked before but as arcane do I delay my arcane power to use with the medallion trinket? Does the trinket get the extra dmg?

Thanks for the information. I've been asking around for an updated racial graph for awhile now. Glad dwarf is #3.

Honestly how good are the bonuses for arcane for this tier gear? I only see benefit in the opening or if you have the kilt and mid fight barrage then use PoM to get your charges back. The 10% for 6 seconds is negligible I feel. Would it be wrong to just put ANY higher ilvl gear on and break these se...

Nice, I'd also like to ask which race is best for arcane? Surely its changed with gear?

You should add a buffs section for food/flasks/runes. In this section you may also wanna add how nice it is to have paladins give arcane mages blessing of wisdom.

Every spec guide should link to this thread. Good work.

I use Kilt + Shard, and Resonance. For my best parses on heroic: Goroth: 10 Barrages Inquisition: 12 Barrages Harjatan: 11 Barrages Mistress: 19 Barrages Sisters: 11 Barrages Host: 22 Barrages Maiden: 8 Barrages Avatar: 16 Barrages I certainly think more than 2-3 Barrages are needed per fight. Exag...

"How do you possibly need to use barrage more than 2-3 times a fight?" Well, depends greatly on how you use your mana and your evocations. This is the difference to me in play style between using Spiral and Kilt. So we would normally start with a hard burn phase and get to the point where we have t...

Well, I'm not a huge mythic raider (yet, altough i did raid mythic NH). so maybe some info would be really useful, Naustis. I am willing to do all the research that would be deemed useful. I have more or less all the legendaries and some experience on where I use them, save for maybe the new should...

There is really only 2 changes in 7.2.5 and they are the legendaries. The new Ring is very nice and definitely use it if you don't have Shard. If you have Shard, I would say that this depends a lot on your raid composition. If you have a number of Mages with Shard, then that will be the best choice...

There is really only 2 changes in 7.2.5 and they are the legendaries. The new Ring is very nice and definitely use it if you don't have Shard. If you have Shard, I would say that this depends a lot on your raid composition. If you have a number of Mages with Shard, then that will be the best choice...

I have a question about the races. I assume the best one would change as we get better gear right? Like dwarf 2% more crit dmg is more relevant the bigger the crits are since we have more int/mastery. Maybe pandas are better now with the 500 int food buff turning into 1k int?

Could that be due to that arcane only had 84 parses? Those parses can be from bad players? Also why is fire ahead of frost?

Spoilers if you haven't finished ToS yet ----------------------------------------------- Since Argus is going to be our final raid of the expansion, how well will arcane scale from now into higher ilvl gear? I can't claim to know but want to discuss how well our spells will scale with higher int and...

So I just got my 3rd legendary the Gravity spiral. My other two are sephuz and the crafted shoulders. I clearly need to choose between 2 of the 3. I am an arcane mage and will stay arcane for the future as well as now. My question being, the ring has so much crit and crit is valuable to arcane mages...

I did not count my attempts but I want to say between 18-22 attempts.

I just finished it myself so I'll detail my account of the fight in my circumstances, so that someone else may gleam some insight into the fight. I had: iLvL 890 Sephuz Crafted legendary shoulders Talents: Amp Shimmer Incanter's Resonance Chrono Erosion Overpowered The best way I can describe doing ...

Which is more efficient?

By doing MoA > RoP > AP

You're wasting time you could be casting into your MoA for larger damage.

I've been doing RoP > MoA > AP

My thinking was that this way I can maximize casting into MoA.

Anyone have their hands on a good arcane profile to use with simcraft? I know how to use the software but I do not know how to craft a good profile myself and would rather leave it in the hands of those that are most capable.