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Archmage got stealth nerfed...

Dang, I really liked TA and Overpowered... I found that when I get the lucky evocation proc from TA it feels like I'm in burn phase all the time.

Will see whether Arcane is going to be my main in BFA after the legendaries drop off...

Thank you all very much for the replies! I am hoping the shard drops for me so I can make a full switch to the crit-haste build (I don't have belt).

Will be redoing my stats tonight with the current gear and see what numbers I can pull.

Hi all, Hard to find info on this particular build, where the fire mage stacks Crit/Haste for ST. Example, https://www.warcraftlogs.com/rankings/character/690538/13/#metric=dps I'm just concerned that raidbots will still give the wrong stat weights/ dps calculations to aim for when you're trying to ...

Both of you guys are AWESOME thanks!!!!!

Hi all, Fire Mage here. Recently got back into WoW... and I'm finding that stat weights, tier sets and gear options are all over the place. I mean, back at Legion launch we probably had a target crit chance to aim for before dumping everything into other stats. Now, I'm fairly confused with how to a...

Mages now have a 15% passive crit chance increase.

I'd stick with Belovir (for the int/crit upgrade) + Sinew + Aran's ruby... It's what I had before my bracers dropped and I had to replace Belovir with the bracers. I simmed 91% Mythic Ursoc with Belovir and 865 Sinew. Belovir gives nigh immortality, in that the shield it gives stacks with Frost armo...

Dunno about the "on the right track". January 17th is when they launch the new patch. You have the Christmas where nobody's working. Thing to really worry about is when the patch finally launches, Nightbane is out, guilds are going out for progression and us fire mages are still holding our members ...

Agreed with above post about legendary player gap. I have Darklis + Bracers, and an 880 nightbane chest + Aran's ruby at 860. Of 9/10 Mythic + run groups, I outdps everyone by a huge margin (with the exception of hunters). Bosses I'm burning regularly at 500-800k dps (peaks at 1m dps), and big trash...

Honestly, just aim to get crit gear and pay little attention to stats after that. The higher levels of crit gear will naturally come with mastery/haste and a versatility. Make sure your haste is at 1800 however. I've done all the way up to Mythic +14 and never had issues doing the dps required on tr...

Frustrating isn't it? Blizzard decides to go ahead and redesigns the class while we're already so deeply invested into it. Oh well, nothing can change that now. My advice is to decide whether you want to micro manage your mana and 4-combo point stack (ARCANE), or whether want to play with a pet elem...

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Hey all,

Anyone got a side by side comparison on what they're changing to the Frost spec that compares live to the PTR?

Tried to look for it... maybe not looking hard enough.

We are currently recruiting a few more DPS and a healer to make up our Mythic core group. DPS of all classes will be considered and we are particular keen to recruit Priest/Monk/Shaman heals. Progression: 7/7N EN 2/3H ToV 2/7M EN Raid Times (server time) Wednesday 8pm-11pm Thursday 8pm-11pm Optional...

Belovir's Final Stand and 880 Naraxxas is better than Aran's ruby + Chest.

Bough of Corruption is extremely RNG. So much that it's really not worth using. I have an 870 version and I don't bother with it (multiply fights it did very little damage with an exception here or there) You're better off using the Sinew to retain the crit, and you have a degree of control on the a...

Thanks Ezekielyo !

Welp, just saw the blue notes on wowhead.com.

They specifically said they'll look at specs that are currently heavily relying on a particular secondary state (aka fire mages) and address the issues.

Now we just have to wait and see how long it takes for them to fix us when the PTR hits live.

Personally I'd go for Devilsaur 850 + Bough of Corruption 865

By the way things are going the only way Blizzard can somewhat fix the fire mage is either: 1. Retaining the rotation by giving us class specific crit buff for spells (aka, reversing the crit chance changes on molten armor etc etc and buffing it) or 2. Giving us an enormous buff to filler spells to ...