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If ABarr hits hard, and Mana Adept is good, I wonder if we'll see a return to Cata-style mana-neutral/mana-regen conserve phases-- maybe using Arcane Barrage at two charges and hard casting Arcane Missiles every time you regen above 80% mana (or timing it in conjunction with Incanter's Flow, such th...

You won't drop combat if you clip Evocation after three ticks, which is what you're supposed to be doing anyway. Channeling the spell fully is a bit of a waste, since you're almost certainly going to overcap your mana.

The fact that people are even entertaining the idea that Evocation won't have a CD is bewildering to me. It's a datamining error. Based on the data presented, I imagine the spec works much like it does now. The only differences are: 1.) You can cast Arcane Missiles at any time, for an even larger (a...

Why not precast Mark of Aluneth?

Charged Up is off the GCD, after all.

Mark of Aluneth -> Rune of Power -> Charged Up -> Arcane Power -> Arcane Barrage -> 2PT20 POM -> murder shit.

Arcane Familiar beating Amplification on anything other than pure single target. Huh. Alright.

I'm feeling real hinky about using Soul and Shard/not using Kilt in Tier 21. Feels like a recipe for getting absolutely wrecked on mana.

I think the best Gravity Spiral was ever going to do was during Nighthold, with the T19 4P. I legitimately could not burn mana fast enough to keep up with all the CD reductions from 4P, and Evocation sat off CD for at least 15 seconds every time; Gravity Spiral gave you a buffer to make use of all t...

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He has the tier 20 2P, so casting it ten minutes before the fight starts would be a waste.

His initial Presence of Mind cast is also missing from the timeline, so he probably precast them just before the pull. That's not great; you should definitely cast Mark of Aluneth before casting damage CDs like POM, AP, or Rune of Power. Also, if you're new to Arcane, you should probably take Incant...

My theory is that, since Simcraft is an infallible WoW-playing robot, haste's value gets inflated a lot. If there's any sort of haste gimmick-- being able to squeeze in one more AB4 during Arcane Power/Rune of Power/whatever-- then Simcraft can pull it off with near 100% reliability, and Simcraft is...

So, wait, is 4PT20 actually worth using? I was under the impression that if you had two pieces of 900+ Tier 19 it was better to use 2PT19/2PT20. Simming myself seemed to support this.

So am I missing something, or does your priority list not really take advantage of the free Arcane Charges from 2PT20? This and the the Simcraft APL seems to always pop POM at 4 charges and then just launch into the burn phase; wouldn't it be more beneficial to throw out an Arcane Barrage before tha...

I wonder what the WCL rankings would look like if we cloned everyone playing Frost and made the clones main Arcane for a tier. As it is, it's always hard to trust WCL rankings because if the majority of the top players are playing one spec then the high end for that spec will probably be off the cha...

Hey, you're pretty on the ball-- say I have Mantle, Shard, and Gravity Spiral for DPS legendaries (swapped from my priest late in the expansion), no T20, and 4/4 T19 available to me (as well as off-set pieces). What legendaries would you go with, Naustis?

Isn't simming yourself as arcane unreliable due to how poorly the current sim module handles things like gravity spiral, mana management, T19, and.. uh, seemingly arcane as a whole?

I wonder what sort of creative ways the mastery snapshotting on Arcane Charges might be useful..

Also, I'm shocked that the T20 4P is so ineffectual for Arcane. Guess I'm going to be pugging heroic NHs for awhile hoping for lucky titanforges.

I just ran a sim with Gravity Spiral and Shard that had me start a burn phase at 20% mana and evocate away my last four seconds of AP as a result. So, uh, yeah, something of an issue.