Arcane guide says the DPS still is better with stacking mastery, over haste...is it wrong? Also what haste breakpoint should i be going for?
Arcane guide says the DPS still is better with stacking mastery, over haste...is it wrong? Also what haste breakpoint should i be going for?
Eggimann 90 mage Korgath:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ggimann/simple
Is the choice of bomb hugely important? For example, I was having moderate success with Frost Bomb last night in my testing. I camped a dummy for 12+ minutes each time and found no conclusive difference between NT and FB, though with buffs one might begin to emerge.
I did, however, like that FB has a cast time. It allows me to replace Scorch with FB in the sequence on occasion, leading to fewer scorch casts overall. I also liked the "feel" of that play style as well, using all three schools as part of my overall damage, but that's just a personal preference of mine, haha.
Thing is... how much mana regen do we want with this rotation?
I dont think you should worry about mana regen.
How much you need to scorch depend on RNG (AM procs) and if you choosed Haste over Mastery or not.
As much as you can, before capping arcane blast cast time.. But that said its a bit rng, you can make out with a lot less aswell and depending on next patches and their itemization.. would think even 6 stack camping mages will focus more on mastery after decent ammount of haste..
Noticed a big difference on Sha when I was able to keep my stacks being sent to the platform. If you can get your stacks refreshed right as you are sent and you have glyphed Arcane Explosion when you land on the platform take two steps in and cast your AE and you get to keep your stacks and will help burst him down. It really sucks having to build 6 stacks again while at the same time grabbing orbs. When I did miss this trick it took longer to down the Panda
I dont think we should see how overgearred mage do and think it'll be the optimal way for 485/490 ilvl geared guy.
Blatty is now stacking mast, but he already has 5K haste without focusing it. On the other way, I have 7K5 haste and i'm focusing for it.
What may be the optimal way for a 510ilvl char (because of lots of stat) may not be the optimal way for a 485ilvl lambda char.
Either way, I think the only thing that should matter is having enough haste for the extra NT tick if you're focusing mastery. You shouldnt think about haste in a mana regen way.
Ye but Blatty is troll, and berserking with hero atm, you need like 9400(6k with frost armor) haste rating to hard cap, so if he also has terror trinket, then he would cap by a lot(3325 rating over cap) during hero + berserker+ essence of terror, so ye he doesnt really have a choice on that matter