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This is what some arcane mages felt like after Quickening was canned. The skill cap of the class has been lowered by removing double icelance, and now the skill becomes how you deal with mechanics and not how skillfully you play. Like it or not, this is how WoW is. If you discover a way to play that...

Is Gravity Spiral really worse than the belt?

I was expecting it to be much better than it actually is...

Choosing between Shimmer and Slipstream is an actual choice now. Shimmer is so good, but having knockback protection via Slipstream is enticing. This seems to be the only talent that will reward good play (take Shimmer if you're confident in your ability, Slipstream if you want mistake prevention). ...

I had a try of the PTR just now, swapped out Temporal Flux for Arcane Familiar, used PoM instead of Shimmer, and used Overpowered. I'm struggling to see where our skill ceiling is. Smart use of cooldowns is all that I can think of right now, but then that is every single class. There isn't anything ...

So... if we run Overpowered in conjunction with three of the relics which each add 3 seconds to the duration of AP, we'll get 19 seconds of free casts at 200% damage. That is broken as hell. Not only in terms of damage, but in terms of mana regen too. You burn to 50%, use 19 seconds worth of AP, an...

Trinket list does not include Arcanocrystal? I thought that was right up there as one of the best trinkets we could get?

I really hope the "do nothing, no barrage" rotation doesn't become our best rotation, because it is stupidly boring. As it stands it is close enough that I can choose to stick with a traditional barrage conserve playstyle, but sitting around watching my quickening buff for 7 minutes is not my idea o...

Without insane procs

This is pretty much how I've found it too. Lots of AM procs is feast, don't get the rng lottery and you end up in famine for 1:30m.

My stats: Mastery: 52% Crit: 25% Haste 14% Vers: 4% ilvl: 864 27 ranks in weapon (AK11) 1 Legendary (Sephuz's Secret) What follows is my anecdotal feelings, take with a grain of salt... After raiding tonight, I feel like I spend at least 80% of the time in conserve phase now. Absolutely punishing to...