Missile-Only Playstyle
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 6:53 pm
Hi there!
I was curious about the Azerite traits concerning Arcane Missiles (AM) and Amplification.
Arcane Pummeling (AP) enhances every wave of AM by X
Anomalous Impact enhances AM by X depending on charges.
Talents of choice: 1/2or3/1/2/1/3/2
Stats: No mastery (since this is a dead stat), crit should be preferred, and I speculate Haste to be on par with Versatility.
Playstyle:
Charged Up on CD, clear with Barrage when CD is back up. This gives a free AM every 45 sec
Arcane Power on CD, if you play with Rune, use both ad the same time I guess.
Nether Tempest on CD (at 4 charges). This is just to use the talent... Sadly, there is no viable alternative
Spam AM.
No mana? Evocation and you're good.
Mana doesn't run out that fast, so you just use Evo when you run out.
I tried this a bit, and it falls roughly 10% short of a normal Arcane Mage playstyle. Given the fact, that I don't use a third Azerite trait (and I suspect AI to be less impactful than AP, hence you could run 3x AP) and I have roughly 800 Mastery on my gear that I wasn't able to switch out (no spare gear), I believe this discrepancy could be smaller.
Since Simulation programs aren't able to try this one out, I was hoping, that maybe one of you guys has the gear and Azerite Pieces to give this a try (and maybe report back, since I asked so nicely )
Any feedback?
A small thing last: I know that this is no really serious "Theorycrafting", yet I would really love to have some answers and/or feedback
I was curious about the Azerite traits concerning Arcane Missiles (AM) and Amplification.
Arcane Pummeling (AP) enhances every wave of AM by X
Anomalous Impact enhances AM by X depending on charges.
Talents of choice: 1/2or3/1/2/1/3/2
Stats: No mastery (since this is a dead stat), crit should be preferred, and I speculate Haste to be on par with Versatility.
Playstyle:
Charged Up on CD, clear with Barrage when CD is back up. This gives a free AM every 45 sec
Arcane Power on CD, if you play with Rune, use both ad the same time I guess.
Nether Tempest on CD (at 4 charges). This is just to use the talent... Sadly, there is no viable alternative
Spam AM.
No mana? Evocation and you're good.
Mana doesn't run out that fast, so you just use Evo when you run out.
I tried this a bit, and it falls roughly 10% short of a normal Arcane Mage playstyle. Given the fact, that I don't use a third Azerite trait (and I suspect AI to be less impactful than AP, hence you could run 3x AP) and I have roughly 800 Mastery on my gear that I wasn't able to switch out (no spare gear), I believe this discrepancy could be smaller.
Since Simulation programs aren't able to try this one out, I was hoping, that maybe one of you guys has the gear and Azerite Pieces to give this a try (and maybe report back, since I asked so nicely )
Any feedback?
A small thing last: I know that this is no really serious "Theorycrafting", yet I would really love to have some answers and/or feedback