Arcane 5.1 rotation help ( mastrey and haste specs )

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I am a 490 item level mage
I was going full mastrey after haste softcap with the mage armor. Some people told me to try going full haste because it can be a dps increase.

Usually I scorch weave and keep my mana at 90%+

now that i am going full haste what will be the rotation and what armor should i use?? i am abit confused and is it a dps increase?

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Same rotation.

Use frost armor, and because you dont have has much mastery you can go as low as 85% mana. You can continue to scorch weave as you did before.

Mastery and Haste Build seems to pull similar numbers, so it certainly with be a QoL inscrease (I'm liking Haste build alot more than Mastery build), but you wont see any significant increases in dps.

Worse, at high gear (500+ ilvl), I think mastery build is ahead cause you already have a bunch of haste as a secondary stat.

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Same rotation.

Use frost armor, and because you dont have has much mastery you can go as low as 85% mana. You can continue to scorch weave as you did before.

Mastery and Haste Build seems to pull similar numbers, so it certainly with be a QoL inscrease (I'm liking Haste build alot more than Mastery build), but you wont see any significant increases in dps.

Worse, at high gear (500+ ilvl), I think mastery build is ahead cause you already have a bunch of haste as a secondary stat.

ok mate i got it , but since i am losing like alot of mastrey i feel like my spells wont hit that hard. So is it really the same dps ??

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Single target, mastery is slighty ahead, but haste is more forgiving. AoE is way better with mastery.

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mastery: ur spells hit harder

frost: u cast more spells which each hit less hard

the mastery/haste builds are very close, while also considering mastery and haste benefit from each other. with ur itemlevel going haste could probably be a dps increase, with end gear mastery is slightly ahead.

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ok mate i got it , but since i am losing like alot of mastrey i feel like my spells wont hit that hard. So is it really the same dps ??

Like the others said :

Haste = more spells but hit less hard
Mastery = less spells but hit hard

I enjoy haste a lot more, I find more dynamic, i don't like having slow casting spells, and if you mess up you get to max stacks faster so thats a bonus. In the end its slighty the same dps, so you should just play the one that suits you best.

If some mage have the same gear has you but do a lot more dps, thats means there a problem in your rotation or maybe they're just better then you, it happens ^^