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It's funny how "balanced" the new 1/1 single target traits for each spec are. Arcane's Aluneth Avarice gives 24.5k DPS. Frost's Glacial Eruption gives 12.6k DPS. And last (and least) Fire's Warmth of Phoenix gives 1.9k DPS. AMAZING :lol: . Maybe this will help you finding the right decision. Source...

But the rotation of GS and TV are nothing alike. I'd say if you're going to play TV in the future, play TV now. No point in learning a different rotation I heavily disagree. The cooldown usage of GS is fairly different from TV (based on what I've read), but GS essentially plays out as a much less p...

I prefer ebon->flurry->IL->IV->orb->IL, but there is probably next to no difference in dps between the openers This can be rather big if you are lacking 1-2 seconds of your IV till next orb which actually happens quite often with lonely winter. So I'd prefer EB-IV-IL-FB-Flurry-IL-... The opener I s...

I prefer ebon->flurry->IL->IV->orb->IL, but there is probably next to no difference in dps between the openers

Sorry for long quote on my phone but had to ask. Are you sure about number 3? I always wait for my casts to finish before casting combustion and will feel really stupid if it has been all for none. Also feel free to disect my nornal logs, I like your way of looking at logs a lot (Only have normal N...

I'm not noticing anything you're doing blatantly wrong. You could have a few more shattered ice lances. You of course lose a FoF everytime you flurry->ice lance while you have a FoF, and since you don't have the gloves, its best for you to do this. So you're probably playing that correctly. You coul...

Gonna list these critiques in the order I find them. I'll try to put a block after each section to talk about how to improve I'm looking at your Star Augur fight (https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/vXzbrRGBtxTCfpPk#fight=23&type=summary&view=analytical&source=62" target="_blank) because Star Augur...

1) You never casted blizzard, this is a simple one. Same thing as the post above, blizzard is worth casting on 2+ targets. 2) You only gained lust once. Despite you having the Shard. You should absolutely make certain to make use of the lust you can use because the ring a least once per fight. 3) Yo...

Just food for thought. An interesting comparison that could be made would be considering the statistical averages (raw dps or placements compared to all dps specs on a fight) of the 3 mage specs at different percentiles. Could provide some useful data for players who are looking to see some of the p...

Frosted's guide included prydaz, but did not include the belovir chest. I honestly think this is just a oversight by Frosted, where he didn't think the chest would be strong, so he didn't bother to check it. If you look at this page: https://www.altered-time.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2621&start=...

Legendaries, gear, and the practice of double ice lancing all affect the strength of BC vs LW. Up until I very recently got whispers+metronome, bonechilling was simming 40k dps higher for me than LW. With those now, LW is simming a few thousand dps ahead of BC. LW is more RNG reliant, but has a high...

It's very close, but I would opt to keep the 885 droplet and 905 droplet. The difference between an 885 droplet and an 880 cube are close enough that it might be character specific, but the 885 droplet should be better, since you don't have any legendaries.

Blizzard on 5 stacks for ST. UM was beating AG on ST with the sim APL we used to use where blizzard was sometimes worth casting single target. AG was worse then because players would already cast blizzard, without AG, on single target at some times. This meant that back then, players with the belt w...

1) Until you're very comfortable with the spec, don't bother trying to flurry->ice lance->ice lance. Double ice lancing has strict haste and positioning requirements. It's a very tight window to pull it off correctly. Until you feel you've mastered the spec outside of double ice lancing, I would not...

-When you get a BF, it's going to be towards maybe 1/4 of your cast of your next bolt, because obviously you pre cast your next bolt always towards the end of a given bolt. By the time that bolt lands, you may get a BF, but your next cast will be already channeling. I think what I've been doing det...

Without gloves, I would recommend: prepot+precast ebonbolt at ~3s (.5s longer than the cast) before pull -> flurry -> icy veins (Our spec being the only caster spec in the game which has our damage calculated when it hits the target rather than when the spellcast ends!!!) -> ice lance -> frozen orb ...

Frostbolt generates FoF and BF when your cast finishes, not when the spell lands. Frozen orb is far more the culprit of not working well with frostbolt->flurry->icelance.

Fire has a quite consistent rotation. I played fire at the launch of the expansion. I got a prydaz and then a sephuz, and that is why I stopped playing fire, but while I was fire, I had some of the highest non-bracers parses for EN. I often outperformed our second mage, who had bracers, even while I...

I also want to ask, why is it that Frost is only top 5 when looking at the top of the logs (99 percentile on heroic trillax for example)? Is it really hard to play or really RNG based? Both. If playing to make use of the double ice lance glitch, frost is probably the hardest spec in the game to pla...

Sims calculate stat weights by adding a set amount (I think its 1500) of a stat rating and seeing how much it impacts your dps. Crit is still your best stat, the problem is that the sims are pushing you passed 33.4% crit when it's calculating your scalings, and crit is worth very little to you after...