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Hi guys, I have a question regarding the apparent scaling iusse fire has. There are a lot of people who claim, that fire will have problems in TOS when you get higher and better gear. And I wanna know why ? Fire has some pretty decent logs at the moment. I know its just heroic and we should not take...

Hi guys, I'm Volantis-Terrodar(EU) aka Doty. I am a Lichking baby and I played Wl/Druid and Mage. So I decided to main a Mage in Legion. It's my only character this expansion and I'm trying to do well in all three speccs, always challenging myself to get better. Getting information and testing thing...

See, I knew it
Thanks Naustis for your insight!
Can you give me some input how to manage conserve phase (MoA on cooldown, and POM, paired up with a rune) ?
I know its the wrong threat to ask but I really want to improve.

k-WoWScrnShot_052517_172157.jpg Arcane Mage PTR testing Itemlevel 910 Tier 20 set Bonus Soul of the Archmage: Gain Temporal Flux Mystic Kilt of the Rune Master Additional Buffs: Flask of the Whispered Pac Defiled Augment Rune Versatility Buffood Gnawed Thumb Ring(890) Trinkets: Terror from Bellow(9...

Let's take halls of valor as an example: Start with your GS KJ set. Use the Kj on trash. Swap to GS/shard before the tank pulls the boss. Use timewarp in your opener-boss dies- swap back to Gs/Kj Repeat it on Hyrja( you should have timewarp, your mates do not) Last timewarp is used on odyn or Skolva...

Hi, I acutally use these 3 legendaries too and there is a little trick in mythic plus: Create 2 seperate itemsets, the first one uses GS and Kj and the second one GS and shard. Save these two set and drag it into your action bars. Start with GS and KJ on trash. Okay now before your the tank pulls a ...

The kilt has good synergy with the tier 20, cause you can drop your arcane charges before you use POM and get mana back. I was able to use one POM with a rune between each arcane power(had POM ready again). BUT with two additional instant arcane blasts you burn mana pretty quickly. I agree with test...

Not really, the problem with the new tier set is, that you need the legendary kilt, there is sadly no way around it, if you want to use it properly and with soul of the archmage you burn even more mana.

http://ptr.wowdb.com/items/151642-soul-of-the-archmage" target="_blank Hi guys I am Doty aka Volatnis-Terrodar(eu) and today I want to talk about the new legendary Ring. Arcane gains Temporal Flux Temporal Flux Arcane Blast's cast time is reduced by 5% for each Arcane Charge. Sounds really amazing, ...

I think we all agree that arcane blast needs a buff.
Increasing its dmg or reducing its cast time.

which logs mythic ? I don't think so. Rune of power gives you the benifit to use it when your raid needs the dmg, in example, adds that need to die quickly and so on. Forrader wrote: 1. MoA->RoP->AP-> burn 2. MoA->RoP 3. RoP whenever you have 2-3 missle stacks and enough mana to burn further till Ro...

if arcane pulls ahead on single target the mage community will rage so hard.
And I like it

I just watched your viedo, there is a small difference in your opener and a mistake in your converse phase. I am not the best arcane mage, but these are things you should consider. Lets do this You want to maximize the time on your rune. So you should go with: Opener: 1) MoA precast Then use a makro...

Maybe its a feature with high haste
Jokes aside, I think frost will get some changes. I just hope they will balance it, and not nerfing the specc into the ground.

To be honest, I fear a frost nerf, or rather a Tv nerf.With the T20 4 set, the cooldown of frozen orb will be pretty low. If we add the reduction of blizzard on top, the uptime of Icy Veins will be skyrocketing.But am just guessing!!!!
Did someone actually test this ?

Yes the value should be lower If you take a look at your simcraft results,go into the action priority list-> sample sequences and look for the gaps between each evocation. You have the 4set bonus, so it should be around 70 seconds. If that is the case simcraft ignores the second evo. also not a nati...

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think simcraft ignores the second evocation of the head. So you have to be really careful regarding mastery. It has less value

Keep us in check. I'd like to hear your thoughts

Based on stat weight vers will go through the roof,if you only take 6 or 7 percent. I would try to get around 10% vers. Everthing else is fine I think, the difference between 2 or 3% crit is irrelevant and yes you are right about the kilt. Dropping some mastery is a good idea, but keep in mind mythi...

It's so funny, because I have the same legendaries. I wanted to ask the same question as Koldplay, but I am not quite satisfied with your answer. There are two more pros for spiral. Gravity Spiral has good synergy with the 4 set bonus, because you will always have at least one evo on cooldown and th...