State of the Specs (June 20, pre-6.2)

[Festen]

Should we take UM on an Arcane single target fight if we don't have T18 bonuses?
If not, we take SN/PC?

[gameorg]

Best Post Ever. Wonderful Work.

Should we take UM on an Arcane single target fight if we don't have T18 bonuses?
If not, we take SN/PC?

In the first post Frosted mentions "the increased haste" and "Archimonde Trinket", so id say at the start go ahead with PC/SN and once you are geared switch over.

Do simulations yourself once you got some gear to find the exact point for switching. Its very easy to compare 2 talents in Simcraft.

[Prelimar]

this is awesome, and answered every question i had. thank you, thank you. /mage hat tip

[Xiun]

Dog bless - thank you and all the mages for all the hard work to make things easier for the rest of us!

[Festen]

Best Post Ever. Wonderful Work.

Should we take UM on an Arcane single target fight if we don't have T18 bonuses?
If not, we take SN/PC?

In the first post Frosted mentions "the increased haste" and "Archimonde Trinket", so id say at the start go ahead with PC/SN and once you are geared switch over.

Do simulations yourself once you got some gear to find the exact point for switching. Its very easy to compare 2 talents in Simcraft.

Yup, I'm not very good with simcraft but I should try.
Thanks!

[Shyrel]

Wow, such an amazing work you did there. Nothing more to say.
Thanks to everyone!

[Numel]

After reading these forums for a long time, i just had to make an account just to say thanks for this great post, really simplifies stuff! Great work to Komma and all the mages that helped! Thanks alot

[geneshed]

What percentage mana should arcane ve shooting for in the burn phase with the new set bonus/class trinket? Will we still be aiming to stay around the 93% mana mark during conserve? Also thanks for all this info!

[Rabona]

Great work Komma (and the others). Thanks!

[Winzer]

Thanks a lot for this brilliant work you'bei all done!

Lest claim #1 in dps!!

[Tebla]

Thanks Komma, it's always nice to have all at our fingertips.

[Caimion]

What percentage mana should arcane ve shooting for in the burn phase with the new set bonus/class trinket? Will we still be aiming to stay around the 93% mana mark during conserve? Also thanks for all this info!

Once you have the class trinket you burn as deep as you can until AP is finished (make sure you unglyph AP or you may very well run completely out of mana). 93% is still accurate for conserve.

[Loois]

That was an excellent job. Well done!

[Namo]

What percentage mana should arcane ve shooting for in the burn phase with the new set bonus/class trinket? Will we still be aiming to stay around the 93% mana mark during conserve? Also thanks for all this info!

The trinket only take effect during our burn phase, so absolutely no consequence on our conserve phase.
The set bonus is passive, so there is no reason to change your conserve phase too.

93% mana is not taken from nowhere, the 93% mana mark is here to not waste any mana ( http://altered-time.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=972" target="_blank ) and whatever your stuff is, the logic stay the same, so nothing will change for the "magic number" of 93.

[Kasc]

Thanks for the work everyone listed in the OP, and thanks Komma for drawing all that stuff together.

I assume that since the OP didn't include the (correctly) assumed icicle/PoF bug that everything is still correct and accurate after today's fix?

[Abraxis]

Many thanks & chapeau!

[Angwy]

Thanks a lot for this amazing post
'tips fedora'

[Snabelad]

Looking at sims with arcane and frost in the top 5-ish, do you guys reckon there will be nerfing incoming soon?

[Namo]

Looking at sims with arcane and frost in the top 5-ish, do you guys reckon there will be nerfing incoming soon?

No because blizzard don't care about sims, and Arcane and frost suck for padding the meter on HfC fight, we will be king on priority target DPS but not on global skada/parse.

The only fight where we will be king of the meter is Zakuun.

[Imnick]

I was going to ask if there was news about the icicle bug, but then realised that nobody on live servers has the item yet