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Shard of the Exodar Your Time Warp will be applied to yourself at 25 sec duration when you are affected by Temporal Displacement or similar effects. (source: mmo champion) So, since our own TW does now causes Temp. Dis., I guess we effectively have to get someone else to cast TW first or the effect...

I agree with the fact that 2 Time Warps are still strong. As for the other argument - i'd rather have very strong legendary even if I dont have (i dont have shard) cause it will mean there is still way to improve, even if it means farming content for a chance to get it - im fine with that since our ...

Improving belt is fine, but the problem is with the shard which was huge portion of our damage.

I dont have shard but I was really hoping to get it. Right now im not sure. For me change means that someone else need to hero first so then when you are ready for your next burst with CDS you use time warp which will be 25s. If thats how it works its not that bad since 2 heroism bursts are still pr...

I really hope that they will change it for some other abilities. This simply makes no sense.

Stacking 2 T19 and 4T20 seems to be way to go. I just hope I get some other legendaries before it goes live since I have all armor related ones - hat, kilt, boots.

Every sim and analysis will tell you that Whispers in the dark is top trinket atm. Check warcraft logs for arcane mages on heroic/mythic nighthold they use it as well. It takes into account that sometimes you might not get proc in good time or the debuff hurts(you can use that time to regen some man...

What is "+6_wep_ilvl" on the relics sims ? If the difference between relic you have and relic you got is 6ILVL or more (that will go to your weapon not relic's ilvl) then its worth to use it no matter the bonus. Do you guys think we actually need the 4set? Seems like it would mess up our rotation. ...

Hi, Please check all the important threads as your question about legendaries is already answered in main topic - I attach frosted graphic. At your place I would aim to get CoS neck + chronoshard or guldan trinket to get some haste procs as they significantly increase dps and the way class plays. Al...

Hello, I've got my Gravity Spiral couple of days ago and i think its really good legendary. Currently i have kilt + GS with around 30% mastery. On raids I can sustain my mana so much that usually I can AP burn -> 1st evo -> burn -> 2nd evo -> 2/3 rotations with barrage -> AP burn -> evo I have 3/4 s...

Im not sure about this... other specs like feral or dostro locks got flat dmg buffs and they say they want to buff us but they nerf us at the same time cause they nerfed talents that most use atm. Even if it will prove to be a buff % increase will be marginal so what is the point in their saying we ...

I've been having some problems estimating which of my trinkets to use since the release of 7.1.5. I have a 865 Archanocrystal and a 875 statstick with haste I've been running for raids and using my 860 Aran's Relaxing Ruby (with chest) only on heavy AoE bosses. Yesterday I received a 880 Star gate ...

I'd say that you should go for haste softcap no matter what legendaries you have and then sim some gear variants to tweak stats that net the most dps. Plus there are so many haste boosting items that it should be enough - for example if you have chrono shard, shard of exodar or maybe something like ...

I'd say kilt is your basic mana legendary and currently 1 for mana management is enough cause of higher priority on AM and bigger reduction during AP. Also with 2 set piece bonus which many of people(me2) already have, AM proc is really high for AB - for me its 51% so mana is not an issue. Second le...

To add my two cents you shouldnt really worry about Arcane mage place in NH Raid. Sometimes I am top 5 dps sometimes around 7-8 but still its alright. My tip is to take Ressonance for AOE fights its making your dps way higher. Some fights have dmg buffs like Tichondrius fight or Elisendare - if you ...

True, the Kilt (especially when paired with the bracers) already devalued Mastery by a ton. However, the 4 set is sure to be a higher dps increase than 0.2%. I was wondering, is it still 35%, or is it 20% now? Edit: That is to say, is the tooltip adjusted already? On my armory it says 40%, in game ...

On the other side - when do you pop your CDs at scorpyron fight? At start, at first adds, or maybe when he loses his armor?

Not really, there is docs file on the internet showing rough estimates for set piece bonuses for each spec and how increase % it gives. For arcane its pretty high for 0-2 which is almost 4,5% as for 2-4 is less around 0,5% so yeah. According to sims there is only big difference in 0-2. That's not t...

Uh... I was looking at the dropbox file to see what items the sims were run with... and the 715_arcane_scale_1_tar.html file only has 3 pieces of the tier set equipped? Wouldn't missing that fourth piece DRASTICALLY alter the results of all of these sims? @_@ Not really, there is docs file on the i...

Thanks for the comments guys. I am also very convincved that Arcane is fine for these Raid. However Ressonance seemed to work wonders for me for most of the fights since there are a lot of adds so even though I have kilt I still used ress. Worth noting is that I got Whispers in the Dark trinket and ...

Hello everyone, As we are getting closer to Nighthold, I would like to get some advices and your thoughts on how to spec for that Raid. I've been watching some videos on youtube and seen Arcane Mages at some bosses, but there were none on the other ones. I wonder how should we spec to fit in? First ...