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Hello there, As some of you might have noticed with the low amount of haste you have at the start of an expansion, the weight of the stat plummets greatly around 440 total haste despite guides telling you your best stat is haste. See: Class=Mage, Spec=Fire, Intellect=2.49, CritRating=0.71, HasteRati...

Seabreeze is meh for frost, any weapon with similair ilvl will likely be better. This is why you see the high simming mages not using theirs. It's really a staff thats only good for dot classes like warlock and priest, although I can't give you a accurate value on the staff for their specs as I don'...

2 set bonus is pretty huge and still works at max level. This is no bug. 2 set T20 on aoe or 2 set t21 all round are pretty huge and if youre minmaxing, defentally something to look into. Back on beta mages used to run t20 2set for high m+ keys. Again, unlike the reply before me suggested, this is n...

Hai in the roughly stat priorities is there like a haste cap we gotta reach ? Or will it always be haste / mastery= versa gear? I should say this post is out dated, you should take a look at the frost mage guide and sim dump post instead. They'll soon be updated for bfa as they reflect prepath now....

Yes, frost just jumped up from bottom to middle because some optimization was done. This just adds to my point. Allow me to quote the developers themselves ```The purpose of the spec ranking chart is to provoke a reaction, preferably a really really angry reaction. I want the viewer angry enough to ...

It just feels detrimental when Ebonbolt is on cooldown, I just used my BF proc with 0-2 Icicles, and then I don't get a proc BF for what feels like a very long time. After how many casts do you wait before casting GS or do you just keep pumping FB until you get a proc?

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The main reason bc is better now is because we're running GS, the spell does not benefit from LW and does benefit from BC. Azerite powers can have an impact on the % damage difference but last checked it was around 3%. There's another main reason for picking BC over LW, a reason that is not reflecte...

Races are not required to push world rankings at a world 100 rank at all, I doubt they care anywhere but top 10 and even there I don't know at times. If you want to minmax look at the graphs in the sim dump posts that are stickied under each spec's sub forum. They currently represent prepatch and wi...

There's no such things as bis lists due to warforging and titanforging messing everything up. Get familair with raidbots and simulation and use that to determin what gear is an upgrade or not. Guide to raidbots: https://goo.gl/q1nJyE Theres also sources such as herodamage, the sim dumpposts by glynn...

These charts don't really show a accurate representation of what spec is good or bad. Profiles are unoptimized left and right, some use azerite gear, other's don't. Some APL's aren't even ready. Tuning is happening, some base traits aren't in, a lot of trinkets aren't in yet. This chart is not displ...

Mass teleport is kind of Jaina's signature spell. That being said, there's no real gameplay difference with using summoned portals, so whilst it could a fun spell I don't think anything like it would get implomented. A similair idea was mass blink but that was left behind a while ago since on bosses...

Sorry to be a pain, could I grab a link to the mage discord?

Either top left of the website or in my signature.

Hello Everyone :mrgreen: , i am new to this forum, since i just rerolled from Shaman to Mage for BFA. I am Impact, the creator of the featured Weakauras above (and also thank you very much for that). For those people that like my Weakauras, i also do have an Arcane Mage Aura. It can be found here: ...

eu https://blizzard.com/invite/0B4ZOc5jY
us https://blizzard.com/invite/N4eOqEuOEZ

cool! i was planning on tuning my UI a bit this week. two things i'd like but could find though is the following: - track ignite values and duration on multiple targets. - track living bomb duration on multiple targets. besides me finding it cool to see whats happening with these two spells, it wou...

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The Mage weakaura HUB Overview Intro General Utility auras Frost Fire Arcane Intro Intro Weakauras are important elements in the UI's of most players. They are used to track cooldowns, buffs, procs, legendaries or even boss abilities and are very versatile and helpful. This post is created and main...

Yeah I'm a bit confused on the shown crit scalings...is that before or after 33%~ crit for it to be so low rated? Is it somehow devalued now?

yes, these weights are after crit cap. Do sim your own characters weights, as you can see it can vary heavily from character to character.

Hey there Herpie, Theres two wowhead links that might be of use to you http://www.wowhead.com/class-specific-toys-mounts-pets-glyphs-guide#mage , a guide to class specific collectables and http://www.wowhead.com/vanity-collection-guides , all collection guides. I hope this helps you a long way :) an...

Until about yesterday, all I'd seen regarding BFA Frost was that we'd be going Glacial Spike for ST and Bone Chilling was making a come back because of the loss of the ebonchill traits. The updates to this post seem to indicate otherwise, with TV / Lonely Winter still being the best choices for tho...