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Wouldn't it make more sense to use AO to get the last 2 charges instead of the first 2? No, it doesn't. Optimizing DPS by avoiding casting AB0 and AB1 which have very low DPET, is much more important (and rewarding) than optimizing DPM. The idea is based on the thought, that you can delay ABar by o...

Wouldn't it make more sense to use AO to get the last 2 charges instead of the first 2?

My last thoughts for this spell was to be able to do one more ab on 4 stacks, then double AB -> AO. This way you skipped the heavily mana negative 3 and fourth stack and are sitting on whatever you generated. So basically if AO will be up: Abx4 -> AM/AB until you would normally reset -> AB + AM(if s...

If you put the frostbomb on the boss you do not need to target the boss. To trigger frostbomb you NEED to have FoF procs - so spamming your ILs randomly will not help you generate FB triggers. To be precise: Ice lances the profit from shatter, which is indeed FoF for us. So the little lance (splitti...

can't you just derive the pre pot value from the spell power scaling? Spellpower is 5 so 1 spellpower is 5 dps (over the course of a full fight) 1000 is 5000 dps for the time it is active (actually more since we are in burst mode) so 20 seconds * 5000 is what the rocket would have to beat, now give ...

Just place a crystal and shoot an orb on it. The first hit will slow the orb down so you will see how close the orb actually needs to be in order to hit. If I smack the crystal into the middle of the boss i doubt I will even hit the pc. Although in the pull itself it is hard to check, but it just se...

Is there some conclusion now? IV pre crystal or not? With IV activated you have a much higher chance to get BF from your first frostbolts, which I quite enjoy having, because most of the time I will run out of FoF procs quickly and instead of having to hardcast frostbolt I can use these to charge up...

MI also scales with SP if I remember correctly and they should also benefit more from copelands than from haste.

Can someone explain to me in words, why HC shards is better than copelands for frost mages? For me it feels something is odd about this. A good portion of our damage comes out of the cd phases, which are way stronger with a copeland active, especially pull and second IV. Haste only help if we have m...

Hey mate,
I just checked you kargath kill video to watch a fellow frost mage have a go at it.

Do you have a razor naga or are you seriously pressing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ?

When synching FO with PC in a raid format I am getting my doubts, that my orb actually connects with more than the boss. The orb starts to slow down as soon as it connects with the boss hitbox and most of the time the duration will be over before the orb really touches the boss. Usually I placed my ...

So a few questions I've seen posted around here (and on MMOc/Bnet), figured I'd go about finding some concrete answers for. Should I delay MI for IV? No, for both Glyphed and Unglyphed. http://i.imgur.com/gx782Fm.png If I have Copelands Clarity, should I hold off on using it to sync with IV? Defini...

I might be wrong here, but shouldn't you pop IV together with the 2x Frost Bolts that you cast during waterjed preceding the crystal to maximize the chance of BF? For me the waterjet is part of the crystal rotation so: IV -> Frost bolt + water jet Frost Bolt FB Crystal FO Although it might be smarte...

I am currently opening like this: -3 Prepot/MI -Frostbolt - combat IV/HT Frostbolt (jet activated midway) Frostbolt FB FO PC ---- Spam Although I strongly feel, that it isn't optimal. The main issue I have is with PC. It takes longer then the GCD for me to be attackable. Will test it on the dummy on...

Nao has it right, that is exactly what I meant and I didn't notice I mumbled it in the OP

Hi, since my knowledge with simc is limited and I saw a couple of really good ones are out here I wanted to ask for the following: I know synching FO with PC is a DPS increase. What I want to know is, if I should delay PC to synch it with CC(Trinket) or synch CC with IV. So since the trinket has 2 m...