New Leggos

[Ironmong]

Hi, I need help on which 2 legendaries to go with. I have 970 Gravity Spiral and 970 Shard of Exodar, I just picked up 970 Soul of the Archmage...

Any help would be appreciated.

[Dakodai]

Shard and Archmage are the top 2 legendaries for damage output. If you think you are okay without a mana legendary then I'd say that's the way to go.

Of course it depends alot on the rest of your setup, so:

[Frantik]

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[Forrader]

For general purposes:
-ST fights: use shard + soul
-AoE fights (e.g. misstress, harjatan): use shard + spiral
Though I don't think that ToS geared arcane mage benefits a lot from spiral. But if you are yet to start raiding newer content - spiral adds more flexibility and is less punishing for bad mana management than no mana leg.

[Ironmong]

Thanks guys, I guess my thought on Spiral was that is gives me the extra burn phases for spamming Blast, which together with Shard would be awesome, or am I missing something completely here?

[Forrader]

Basically without 4t19 it gives you 1 extra mana pool and some decrease of the first evo cd, because after that you go with standard burn/conserve rotations. That's great on short fights, because you can burn longer, but on the longer fights (over 3,5-4 minutes) it devalues a lot.

[Ironmong]

I should have mentioned that I don't have any tier gear because I haven't raided seriously as yet, I have a mixture of 880 to 910 gear as well as 2 x 970 leggos, from what I understand the t19/t20 gear helps with mana?

[Ironmong]

Basically without 4t19 it gives you 1 extra mana pool and some decrease of the first evo cd, because after that you go with standard burn/conserve rotations. That's great on short fights, because you can burn longer, but on the longer fights (over 3,5-4 minutes) it devalues a lot.

Hmm I thought you would basically not run out of mana because you effectively have 3 pools including your first mana pool before you hit first evo, then by the time you have burned through second evo the CD is up again?