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Got my 8.5 chest piece via tokens finally. Hopefully I'll be able to get at least one more piece of T8 drop in Ulduar either tonight or tomorrow, and then save up for the head piece.

Grats on that! My guild just recently downed the regular 10 man version after several tries, so I can only imagine how difficult 25 man hard mode would be.

Grats, I'm still waiting to get my first piece of T9. Then again I didn't raid for the first 5 weeks of T9 content so I missed out on quite a few badges/trophies that others have been collecting. That and it is impossible to find a VoA group for some reason on my server when I actually want to raid it.

Love to see the mages finding their way in the top of damage-list again, where we belong!!!

Yesterday's raid (25-ToC, VoA and Onyx) I did a dashing 72% crit on my fireballs :D

Only thing what kept me from leading the dmg-list is a stupid death (I blame the healers haha)But us mages must love the floor by now, it has become one of my best friends ^^

Finally got my achievement for Oculus lol. Yay for heroic daily quests? It's about damn time, that's all I have to say. Now I just need to get EoE done...

But the chest is the weakest piece of the set! Would have been better off with Merlin's robes or such. -- edit nm, mis-understood (thought you got a the tier chest piece). Grats on those sick robes.

Edited, Oct 6th 2009 8:34am by Anobix

Was wearing merlins for the fight Anobix, this was the upgrade from merlins. I was the only one who bid on it because the locks will use their tier piece robe I think.

Finally my first Heroic ToC-10 drop :D Firestorm Ring ftw ^^

Grats Sels! My top DPS so far on twins is 8.6k, and my guild knows about my spec, but they like it. =x Me and a hunter are the top DPS'ers in the guild, whoever is on top varies from fight to fight.

Got my 3rd and 4th pieces of T9 from badges tonight! Now I just need to get a trophy for the super awesome gear, and the mats for a Merlin's Robe and I'll be all set.

Hehe 804 Haste (almost 25%!) not bad for a Arcane Mage :)

Anyone knows the Haste-Cap? 1000 or something?

Yeh, manaflow goes quick with that much haste ^^

So gotta find a good balance of Haste, SP and Crit. (hit is capped, but thats eesy with arcane)

Btw, I know my name could suggest another thing, but last time I looked I was a bloke :)

Actually it is a 1sec GCD with haste. The standard GCD is 1.5sec (correct) but I believe that haste also decreases that number all the way down to 1second, below 1second and it is a wash, but it takes some pretty specific situations to do this (haste pot, bloodlust, icy veins, and good haste gear).

Yeah, I've got the bracers (wrote a post about it a month or so ago in the WoW General forum, found them on the AH for 5g), they're pretty nice. ^^ The t9.5 robes, you say? Well, that's providing I get a trophy lol. My guild actually does 25 man runs (and we're doing our first attempt at ToGC on Sat!) so I do have a chance at them, but no such luck yet. Also, if the Merlin's Robe is so much better than the T9 and 9.5 chest, it seems more logical to spend the 75 Triumph emblems on the Crusader Orbs and get the Merlin's Robe instead of using the 75 Emblems + trophy to get the T 9.5 robe. Ah well, I only have 5 triumph emblems right now anyways, after buying the head and legs. I guess I'll figure it all out when I get there.

Thanks for that heads up Toxicity, those robes are very nice! And they're robes too! I hate being a mage wearing a stupid shirt and pants.

I don't think that is true:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/3p3/tier10sneak.html

looks like a robe to me.

Downed Anub'arak on ToC-10 HC finally yesterday. Rogue and hunter were alive, the rest was dead ^^

Anub is a Biatch to fight, 3th phase is nasty, even with heroism. Can't imagine how this bugger will be on 25-HC...

12,5k dmg on Twins on 10-man, Arcane is Booming, I used to hate it, but soooo love it now.

Edited, Nov 24th 2009 5:45am by noalala

Nice Anobix :)

Would be some nice moneymaking, cuz us mages should be able to top all bosses except the Champions Fractions cuz of us CC-ing all the time.

I hardly AoE these days cuz the Arcane spec has sh*tty AoE... Nuking just one mob makes way more dmg, except for all them little whelps at Onyxia. ^^

I leave the AoE to Locks, Shadowpriest and Boomkins.

I had exactly the same Kev, I hated Arcane and loved Fire.... But after some convincing arguements from these Guru's on this forum I decided to give it a try. A IMBA change that was, cuz except for making cookies and tea us mages belong in the top of damage :)

My dps went up about 2,5 k dmg per second!

Now swapped some gear around and got 890 haste, and I am so damn quick with damage these days I can't belive it myself haha

Pro's Arcane:
Imba (quick) damage, doing 7k in Heroic 5-mans atm
Need only little hitrate wich leaves more room for haste/crit
12,6k dps on Twins, who wouldn't love that! Best fire nuke I had was 9k.
Scorching still possible as Arcane, so no need for a firemage to be in raid for a scorch-bitch.
More spellpower cuz of talents (about 250)
More Int cuz of talents
Usually lead the damagemeter

Cons'Arcane:
Manaflow, demands some timing with Mana-gems, using Evocation will stop dps for a while, but still compared to fire the diffrence in damage is insane.
U'll need a lot of haste, and a fire-mage prolly got gear focussed on crit.
No damage-over-time spell available (how I loved LivingBomb)

Just convince him to give it a try, and hopefully he will get excited when he sees his damage.
Dual-Spec ftw!

Yes, it get a bit more messy with Arcane, due to mana-regen options available. Also if I check my details after a raid on World-Of-Logs I notice my "Activity" is lower on Arcane (around 86%, but with fire it was 97%)

Although I am nuking-nuking-nuking I still loose activity on Arcane, prolly due to Evocation and I think (not sure) that Arcane Missiles take away some activity stats.

What you can say is what they told me: A good mage does Arcane, no questions asked, it's waaaay better then fire atm!

As said before: I hated Arcane as well, now I don't wanna go back to crap dps. If he get's the hang of it, I bet he'll start lovin it (I hope for you and ur guild!) ^^

Ps. His haste is good enuf for Arcane!

Edited, Nov 30th 2009 10:04am by noalala

For the good of the guild (and himself) we want him to change or at least give it more of a chance. He is quite stubborn at times :)




This is me with my 197 haste and this is him. Maybe skill is his problem as I am sure he should be beating me by a country mile regardless of whether he is fire and I am arcane.

Yeah I do realise that my trinkets are utter garbage :( They are just the ones that I have had since dinging 80 and the guild I am in very rarely let alts (considering making my mage my main but my current main is the only feral) into the raids. I need to go do some normal ToC 5 man to get the abyssal rune.

Regarding the enchant, no I don't need hit as I am swimming in it and I don't think (must check now that you mention it) I can do tuskarr's vitality at the moment. I need to stop being lazy and get to 450 on my profs.

Thanks to my awesome guild got Reign of the Dead (245), then used my extra badges to just buy the 232 pants to get my 4pc (so 3x245+1x232). Here's hoping to show up some leet deeps next week.

It wasn't on my mage (which is my main so I wish it was) but I had to tank so I got it on my druid.

Earth wind and fire 10, U.S. 76th I believe.