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Tome is almost equal to Sethe in single-target, and falls behind in multi-target, so they suggest mages go Sethe + PoF for arcane mages in general. I was running some quick sims the other day just to check the difference between the trinkets for my current gear and I saw something similar. Perhaps ...

Yes. When you het the class trinket you will Evo when unglyphed Arcane Power finishes. This could be as low as 20-30%. There has been some talk of going to ~40% when you have sim big haste buffs such as hero & trinket / enchant procs but that has been more focused around optimising the Tim spent cas...

I have moved this to the questions section.

This is not Frost specific but there are some good tips here.
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Sorry. Weak Aura. WeakAuras 2 (http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/weakauras-2" target="_blank) is an immensely powerful addon originally designed to highlight any buffs and debuffs that you want to track but is not commonly used for many other things. When you have a log with advanced logging turned on...

With your opener, try dropping your Crystal at 2 x AC to try and improve your chance to get MoD on the Crystal but if it is on the boss while Crystal is up, focus on the Crystal unless you get AM in which case switch to the boss for AM so the MoD explosions hit the Crystal and get amplified. Later i...

I do apologise for the duff information. I have just gone back and re-read the posts about interrupting Evo. It was suggested to stop at 88% not 82% so I dont know where that came from :(. This is the line that was published to the APL: actions.burn+=/evocation,interrupt_if=mana.pct>100-10%spell_has...

In fairness, I haven't checked this tier but I haven't seen any post on the Arcane APL thread to say it is changing back to ~90% which makes me think it is still at 82%.

+1 to Wilderness. You explained it much better than I did. Following on from Wilderness and expanding on my earlier post. When you are rebuilding your AC stacks during the conserve phase, you want to save your AM procs for when you have 4 x AC so they hit harder and you can use them to regain mana a...

yes.

The logs you have linked don't have advanced logging enabled so I went to the week before which were uploaded by some one else and your biggest issue is your mana management and dieing. Your DPS will always look terrible compared to others if you don't last the whole fight. With that said, forget tr...

I haven't looked at your logs yet but either I am reading this wrong or here is on big mistake. I only use Arcane Missiles when I have 3 charges. You should only ignore AM until you have 3 stacks when you are less than 70% mana during your burn phase or you are rebuilding your Arcane Charges during ...

I could be going about this the wrong way but as I see it.... RoP = 15% damage increase. IF = Average of 12% damage increase. (4%,8%,12%,16%,20%,20%,16%,12%,8%,4%.....) Which means you must have a RoP up time for 80% of the fight to break even. Note, this does not factor in the damage lost to recast...

I am similar to @nickseng with my answers but a few variations. 1.) You want to try and avoid going to 100% via Evo. The reason for this is your first AB (AC x 0) is mana positive so if you are already at 100% mana, the mana gained while casting has been wasted. The sims interrupt Evo when above 82%...

Your thread wont get deleted. You are asking your questions in the correct place. :) 1) I've red about how Arcane is more viable for single target dps atm etc, but I really like Frost and I understand that u can't gear for 2specs as that isn't efficient, so my question - is frost still viable (my in...

If you can see an add is about to die, either hold off on casting it or better yet, switch target to something that has more health and then cast AM. Yes. You wont see that much of a damage increase if you wait for the ring now but it is a good habit to get into as it will only get better and better...

Chev means unquipping the AP glyph. You can't glyph AP with the Tome trinket because you'll easily go OOM and lose a lot of its value.

Thank you. Yes I did mean unequip.

Have you got the latest version? There is a link on the main download page to the nightly builds.

I admit it seems less important now that the days of snap shotting have gone but I would also still argue that there is some merit in it.

I have had a look over your logs and you do do well with mana usage. There was a period in the Iskar fight where you cast one of two AB's below 93% mana and it wasn't until the next burn phase that you were able to recover. Part of the issue is you don't seem to be changing up your talents based on ...

My opener looks this way: pre-pot on 2sec > cast arcane blast on 1.5sec > keep casting until 4 stacks > if PoF procs use all my Missiles on boss > pop AP > put down PC > if i have missiles procs use then above 70% if not keep spam arcane blast until 50% then use evocation so i get back to 100% mana...

When you are looking at top ranks a lot of that has to do with player skill and very good RNG. Because of the nature of Arcane at the moment which is very RNG dependant, if your stars align it is possible to get some amazing results but you can also be an amazing player and rank lower than expected ...