Mage

Anub AoE

Subeam — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:22:54 GMT

It's no secret i'm no fan of fire and/or ffb specs in general, it's not my playstyle, it just doesn't suit me. But, with the Anub heroic fight, extremely strong AoE is of the essence, so i changed my offspec to an AoE orientated ffb spec as have the other mages (Blizzard synergy <3). After 2 weeks of working on the strats (and the for me inevitable L2P with ffb), i'm still disappointed with the results, so i've spend this afternoon working with Rawr to see what other viable AoE specs there ...

Few Minor Up Coming Changes

Saphirejaffa — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:07:38 GMT

Mage Mirror Image: The images no longer cast Polymorph. Fire Improved Scorch: Increased critical strike chance is now 1%, down from 2% per application of the Improved Scorch effect. Frost Winter’s Chill: Increased critical strike chance is now 1%, down from 2% per application of Winter’s Chill.

Discipline Priests & Arcane Mages

Subeam — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:53 GMT

Something discussed on the SoL forums well over a month ago now, and now also on wowinsider, cooperation between a disc priest and arcane mage to increase their respective healing and dps: http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/26/spiritual-guidance-disc-priest-gives-arcane-mages-600-spellpow/ The maths haven't all been done, clearly, but it's definately increasing numbers to a good extent and imo worth looking into on heavy aoe fights. Edit: obviously this'll also work with Holy priests, ...

Mage T8 Set bonus

Saphirejaffa — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:21:48 GMT

Mage T8 2P Bonus --

Your Arcane Blast, Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt, and Fireball spells have a chance to grant you 350 spell power for 15 sec.

Mage T8 4P Bonus --
You have a chance for the effect of your Missile Barrage, Hot Streak, or Brain Freeze talent not to be consumed when you cast the spells which benefit.

Information you all know!

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:56:08 GMT

Currently a well known dps spec for mages is FFB 0/53/19 but you can change this around to suit your play type. For example; 0/52/19 like myself, Maggythemage has speced 0/50/21 for Double Icey Veins, you can also spec in Permafrost 2/3 to get 1 more tick on your fireball/FFB dot, 3/3 is a waste as 2/3 gives you the tick and extra does nothing. Skills from other classes that Help! Over the past Few days I used(thanks guys/girls) other classes on the training dummys to check the Dps output ...

Spirit, worth it?

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:47:56 GMT

Mages only have three abilities that have to do with spirit. One of these is Mage Armor, which at the moment looks like a crossbreed of a pvp and a pve armor - with a PvE mana regen component (which arguably could find use in PvP too), and a very strong PvP element to reduce the effect of harmful magic cast on the mage. The two others are from the arcane tree - meditation and student of mind. If spirit will feature a role this heavy, and is seriously needed for all casters, please, for the ...

Addons! Which do you Use and why?

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:01:31 GMT

Well I currently using ->

Auctioneer -> For Ah and money of course !! =]
Ctmod -> www.ctmod.net -> all my action bars, self marcos and stuff.
Titans -> shows my dur/money and general stats.