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Thanks for the input. Unfortunately raid lead has decided to try something else.

So my guild is struggling with consistent Imp damage on Mannoroth, because we only have one warlock and zero off warris, but Shadows and Hunters in abundance. Because of that I'm thinking about playing fire to solve that problem. With my fire gear I can get to around 41% crit and 36% mastery unbuffe...

Dont take UM, drop your crystal at 0 stacks, spam AB's at the crystal and dont use SN until it procs or attack the boss in any way shape or form. Even with this you still only have about 50% chance for it to proc on the crystal. Dropping PC at 0 AC is not a DPS gain. Pretty sure having mark of doom...

Well the obvious thing is that your first PC is late and your second (for whatever reason) seems to be completely botched.

-Arcane deals comparable damage to the imps, with the chance of almost clearing them on your own if you get a MoD (which given the big "uptime" of imps isn't even that unlikely) -Arcane can interrupt imps (in my experience bad imp control is the only thing that can wipe you once people get past the ...

If you're staying up I'd go frost all the time. You can always save a couple of proccs for good burst on the adds, mobility shouldn't be an issue either way if you position yourself halfway between boss and the heartseeker location and if you use mouseover macros water jet shouldn't be a problem at ...

I don't think you need to track proccs (aiside from Mark of Doom) to deal good damage, but squeezing out a bit of extra DPS surely doesn't hurt. Admittedly I don't have sims to back it up, but if I have many set proccs I lower my AB mana threshold a bit.

With the introduction of DHs and the huntard changes they already introduced like 1.5 new melee classes, so I don't see them adding more melee specs.

I'm pretty sure that anything which requires more than one player of a class is a big no go for Blizzard developers ("bring the player not the class").

Maybe they swap the Frost specs from DK and Mage

That sounds flat out retarded. Surely they realize that this would deeply impact class balance and could potentially force force raiders into hybrid classes whose DMG specs are balanced around one for everything?

My guild doesn't do it, but I imagine you let an Off-Warri/DK taunt it, maybe give him a defensive cooldown or straight up sacrifice him. If your raid does it right the tanks will only down there for one or two seconds anyway and the upside of having everyone upstairs for Infernals is probably huge.

Will be interesting if they keep the same roles for mage specs. They're limiting Demon Hunters to two specs (a tank and a dps spec), maybe hinting at some sort of trim for all pure classes? Regardless i hope they change how specs work for pure classes. We almost ran into the issue of needing all th...

I disagree. Mythic HFA is all about killing priority targets fast enough. The AoE cleanup can be done by other classes much more efficiently. Exactly. Which is why, anytime you want to burst down priority targets, Tome of Shifting Words is in fact NOT a good trinket. Think about running ToSW. On th...

For mythic HFA, I'd not recommend Tome of Shifting Words. The trinket shines most on single target and 2 target cleave, but having to weave in Frostbolt between Ice Lances on an add heavy fight can result in trouble, especially because in such scenarios your Orb generates FoF procs at an insane rat...

So I guess it's safe to assume that Demon Hunter will be another melee class?

Not sure if UM is good for Frost without class trinket, you should sim that. On HFA you should take Ice Nova, because it gives you on demand burst for prio targets and is also nice for padding if you blow it into the big add groups. I'm pretty sure that PC is better than TV on hc Reaver. On Kormrok ...

Obviously dodging damage is always nice, but in reality hands won't kill you anyway and the damage will be healed up mostly with AE effects, so you barely safe your healers any mana (if any). If you are on rune duty that's one thing, but otherwise I think the damage loss from not having ice floes ca...

I remember that AMR advised me to get the mastery tank trinket as BiS in brf. That hurt my trust into their trinket rankings a little bit (I assume that they undervalue procc trinkets drastically). And besides, if you plan to play Arcane as your main/-second spec you will want to have all three trin...

This isn't speculation, but more something I would like to see. I like how the legendary items work now in that everyone gets to have a chance to work on it and reap the benefit rather than one person in the raid (who can then leave the guild) because in Firelands we had 3-4 people leave the guild ...