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<Reprieve> is a mostly Australian, partly Kiwi adult raiding guild currently taking on Tomb of Sargarus Heroic and looking to fill out the team for *hopefully* mythic content. We have always been focused on striking a balance between raiding with a fun atmosphere while progressing on hard bosses. Al...

Hi I'm Raz and I've main'ed a Mage since the MoP. Currently invested in Fire. Started playing seriously at the end of Wrath because Cata looked interesting. I'm here to help where ever I can... and because this is one of the few sites my work doesn't block :D . You'll find me mostly floating around ...

Simcraft isn't broken. It is just a tool to help inform you on how to best optimize your gear at the point you sim'ed you character. You need to understand how it comes to these values to really get the best use of Simcraft and its results regarding stat weights. Two thing are going to put Haste abo...

You shouldn't treat Sim results as an absolute, but with that out of the way... The current popular talent setup for Bot is Conflag > RoP > FP > CiS. This will also mean that you'll be switching from ST play (Fireball into Pyroblast on Hot Streak) into AoE play (Fireball into Flamestrike on Hot Stre...

I think your results speak for itself. It makes sense too, as when you look at what KJBW does (an on-use always critical striking damage spell) and what PI does (increase critical strike damage by 2% per stack) they seem to have a natural synergy. The Rune situation is interesting as it would seem t...

Just looked at Trilliax log and I would recommend holding off on the second Lust for when CD's are next available if someone else did the Lust pull. This will be at or around the 2 minute mark. This will be a better boost to overall damage not just for yourself, but for other with 2 minute CD's then...

Lets first ask what kind of content you plan to do with your Fire Mage? If you plan to get into raiding and want to min/max and you plan to really get into to min/max'ing then you should Sim your character to get the optimal stats and stat weights for your gear. If you're looking for general informa...

Having taken a quick look, the first thing I can say is that you need to stop playing just 1 Fire Talent Spec (Conflag > RoP > LB > Kindling) every fight, especially on mostly ST fights as you'll end up with poorer overall DPS (and no, changing Kindling to Meteor doesn't count as changing to a diffe...

Simcraft is just a tool, much like Pawn is a tool. If you're just using the default Pawn stings in the addon, you have a higher chance of not getting proper information about gearing. That is why you should use the custom Pawn string that Simcraft gives you. You also need to take into consideration ...

As far as I can tell, its seem that you need to get better at CD Management. The longer you delay a CD, the lower your DPS, that will then effect your overall performance. The other thing is talent use. To be "optimal", you'll want to change a few key talents depending on the boss. You can see what ...

Logs for Skorpyron should be ignored as its depends on how your raid team deal with the adds. The high end logs for Skorp' will have the adds tanks as they spawn instead of waiting for the boss to call them over. Bosses to check for ST damage is Trilliax and Krosus, where in those cases, using MI ov...

I have been finding the same, but as soon as I get more Vers and lose some Crit and re-sim, the Pawn string says to go back to more Crit. From what Ive found and read, Vers starts getting higher valued in Simcraft the more of the other stats you already have. I also think that Simcraft assumes the V...

From what I've seen and played myself, you continue ST rotation but replace Hot Streak > Pyroblast! with Hot Streak > Flamestrike. That being said, I've switched out from my ST gear to AoE Gear to boost the ignite damage.

I've just replace Fireball with Scorch and doing the normal rotation. Seems to work out very nicely. A) Still only cast pyro at the end of a scorch? (seems like this would munch to me) or B) Do you just cast pyro whenever you have it? It's more of a mix of the two, as you can guarantee a crite for H...

You really should link your armory, but that being said... For ST, Keep Whispers, but use your Moonlit as second. You can make the process of pressing all those CD's easier by doing something like... #showtooltip Combustion /cast Combustion /cast Mirror Image /use Moonlit Prism Then all you have to ...

I've just taken a quick look at your NH logs and its not a matter of you not doing damage, its about understanding the new Fire Mage "Meta" game regarding stats. You're going to want to move towards having two different sets of gear. One for AoE that has a lot of Mastery, and another for ST with a l...

Thanks for replying but i am aware about the macro you posted.This "forces"the whole channel to end before you can cast anything else and unfortunately it causes a dps loss.Im more looking to something that when you cast arcane missiles it will automatically"lock"the same ability so it cant be used...