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Its not a bug, you can upgrade your legendary items with wakening essences. This is certainly not the correct forum for that.

Hi there, There's quite a lot of changes you proposed. First of all, I agree that Arcane spec is bland and dull. Maybe if we gather enough feedback here we could compile it and present to the Blizzard forum? I think I kind of understand what you'd like to achieve, I'd like to suggest something perha...

Hi, While I understand your point of view, we definitely shouldn't pit kits against each other. What I mean is we can't reason with specs having more defensive abilities at cost of losing something else. Each spec has a different rotation, movement and defensive and it's great we've got some diversi...

Could you? I still think it's the way to go.

I will prepare the batch this evening. Simulating all of it will take some time though. If everything goes well it should be ready by the end of the week. I will make a separate thread for this too.

To get the best results, you should re-sim the stat weights every time you swap-out a piece. Of course it would be pretty troublesome and annoying, so there are some alternatives you can utilise. If the stats are quite apart from each other in value, nothing much will change, unless you reach a soft...

Yeah, no point in playing fire rn. The damage is rock bottom low... 7.2 seems to be the final nail in Fire's coffin. Getting destroyed by similarly geared frost mages in NH hitting me right in the feels. First things first, the time of tank'n'spank bosses is way in the past now. We have different e...

Tip^3: To be confirmed... You can maybe jump / suicide in the water at the end of the fight to avoid damages from orbs at the very end (dont know if it still works) Sounds ban-able to me. Please don't do that even if this works. Boss: Skorpyron Spec: Fire Tip: Spec into Conf/RoP/LB/CS. Your main pu...

Your problem is connected with every spell that has cooldown reduced by haste. That is Fire Blast, Living Bomb etc. It is a bug, and other classes suffer from it too. There are some funny ones like randomly getting your Fire Blast locked for 10 minutes if you use it on Slow debuff (sometimes) on Eli...

The stats are not quite perfect for Arcane, but additional 5% mana makes your burn phase longer. Since Evocation restores a percentage of your maximum mana on tick, it also accounts for the 5% you get from you neck. Makes sense, but you will probably do better with a necklace that has proper stats.

I might be wrong, but isn't fire kind of lackluster on ST? It's not like Fire is the worst spec for ST ever, it's still very competetive (unless you're playing for Method). Other than that, there isn't a single spec that excells at every scenario. Get Conflagration and Living Bomb for some "omg ner...

You listed some ridiculous issues among those important. My advice would be to keep it serious if you expect people to read the whole thing and then provide feedback. Your crit is too low, get rid of non-crit pieces. You're looking for 60-65% (possibly as much as you can). For single-target you need...

Hardcasted Pyroblast have quite a long casting time, hence the value of your haste weight. 10-20% of haste is a healthy number to have. Also remember that stat priorities are different for every scenario. On single target fights, you would choose haste over mastery, but once the number of targets ri...

Thank you Lahrast for this comparison, it is very informative. As I said eariel, changes are obviously a nerf to the current state, but additional Intellect and stats from higher ilvl gear might scale very well for us. Of course there's a drastic change to the gameplay itself. Lack of mobility hurts...

Inspired by Maywtf's thread on finding "general guidelines" for gear composition I was wondering I am absolutely flattered. Let me add something on my own. I have worked with many mages in the past, so these are the most common things I tell them. Short description: Lack of encounter-oriented knowl...

This still leaves us in the situation where we will need to spec into Flame Patch, and cast Flamestrike every 8 seconds for best Single Target results. It's pretty dumb imo.

That looks like some nice work, but as frost depressing. Since our legendary has close to 1000 mastery on it, pretty tough to get the stat values you list. So, have to start looking way down the list. No idea why (so far) that our legendary has our weakest stat on it, when Fire and Frost are optima...

Don't get me wrong, Mage looks soooo unready. My point was the changes are going in a right direction. I don't think anyone on this forum can imagine all of this coming out on live. AoE spells dealing more damage than ST? We could make a rant topic on battle net forums, but all it will achieve is Fl...

I have no idea if this is usefull or not but there are a few speccs that crushes others. Arcane is almost 60k ahead of fire https://simulationcraft.org/reports/Raid_T19M.html" target="_blank Upon brief inspection this seems incredibly inconsistent. Different specs have different gear. I mean obviou...

It doesn't really matter if you do lower DPS on PTR right now. Now when we got our Crit back, it looks very good, my fellow mages. Pretty much all important spells got buffed during this PTR. Even though they nerfed combustion along with some of our utility, buffed spells will scale a lot with Intel...

So we had a demon hunter (obviously) on our raiding roster. We pull Cenarius, he Fel Rushes through him into the vortex and dies. Unressable. He fought like a hero (for 2 seconds).