An Extra 6% from Talents Puts you at 26-31%. With the changes to Evoc Being 60% of your mana (Switching to an "Of Int" MH/OH with +30int chant gives you an even higher boost), The change to the Highest mana gem having 3 Charges, and a Pot cooldown, I dont have too big of a mana problem.Īlso this build Should use Mage Armor instead of Molten for the Extra Mana Regen, Most mages will have 20-25%ish Crit chance Buffed without Molten. Without the 2 Piece T5 Bonus, and gear not extreamly good, Pre 2.4 Badge Gear, Spellfire, I can Peak at about 1400 DPS, averaging out about 1k Even. + 30% Mana cost + 20% Mana Cost from T5 2set Bonus + the 225% Mana cost = OOMīUT: +30% Damage From AP + 20% Damage from T5 People say this spec takes way too much mana, which may be true, but the DPS is insane. Well these are my personal opinnions and you may prove wrong but me, i'm gonna try an arcane/frost spec.Ĭomment by XhurinBeing a 40/0/21 spec, Draining 60% of my mana in 2 mins is not unheard of if I really want to: The sad thing is that T5 buffs/debuffs even more arcane blast :< Ĭonsidering the fact that many raid fights last very long (even close or over 10 minutes) an arcane mage can't keep up dps over 10 minutes. The only issue which is major is that i still run out of mana, even with a pretty high mana pool and arcane meditation, and raid mana regen. It works pretty well tbh, i never get more than 1 debuff which is acceptable. I figured the best way to efficiently use arcane spec is to alternate arcane blast and arcane missles. I have 10k+ mana self buffed and ~13k raid buffed. arcane build is still useless for pve/raid After long time tests my conclusion is this : I specced arcane lvl 64 and been trying arcane ever since (i'm 70 now for a while). I can't describe a proper method for PVP, as tactics change for each class and I don't have the kind of time to go through each one! However, a variation of the above method works well against some classes.Ĭomment by drakoEver since i saw the new talents and spells in BC i wanted to try an arcane build with arcane blast/arcane missles. If the enemy isn't dead by the time the freeze effect breaks, cast Arcane Blast again and finish them off. Cast Ice Lance (if you learned it and have 5 points in Ice Shards) until enemy is dead. When Arcane Missiles wears off, cast another Frostbolt or Frost Nova and move or Blink away. This is easy for PVE: start off with a Frostbolt or Slow, then cast Arcane Blast, then Arcane Missiles.
The best way to use this is to alternate your casting. It excels at dealing exceptionally high damage for a very low mana cost anything beyond the first cast is, essentially, a waste of mana - unless you're trying to quickly burst down an opponent regardless of how much mana you're spending. Comment by SilvertuskThis is a very decent spell regardless of your spec though being Arcane certainly makes this thing that much better.