Arcane power....what?

[sidphoenix]

yeah Im really interested to see if the whole training all glyphs thing goes live. If it seems so, Im gonna have to level my flippin profession mule

[Deleted]

Actually even if it was a toggle option you wouldnt have it turned on all the time due to arcanes mastary mana adept, now we dont know how significant the dmg increase will be at high mana, but if it is more than 20% at some point, it would be possible to make a situation where you wouldn't use AP all the time

[Swizzle]

Actually even if it was a toggle option you wouldnt have it turned on all the time due to arcanes mastary mana adept, now we dont know how significant the dmg increase will be at high mana, but if it is more than 20% at some point, it would be possible to make a situation where you wouldn't use AP all the time

again, it's 12% with 0 mastery rating. so until MA comes out to a net gain of 20.01% increased damage, keeping up a perma AP would be higher DPS, as long as you could go 120 seconds without going OOM.

[Valanna]

I doubt Blizzard will make AP a permanent buff that you can turn on and off. Why? Because it will be dull, it will only create a certain point of mastery where you dump the talent all in all. Blizzard doesn't want people to not pick the last talent. If they somehow manage to balance it so that you won't want to turn it off at a certain gear level, it's still much duller than what Blizzard aspires to as a last-tier talent.

[Spartanoble]

No, 20% damage for 20% more mana would be on all the time. It doesn't hurt your mana efficiency but it does increase your DPS. It's simple math.

Let's say you have 12,000 mana and can do 1,000 DPS at a cost off 100 mana per second. You can last for 120 seconds and do 120,000 damage.

Now toggle on permanent Arcane Power. You now do 1,200 DPS at a cost of 120 mana per second. You can only last for 100 seconds, but you still do 120,000 damage.

So same amount of damage, but done in a shorter period of time. On a long fight it doesn't matter; you do 120,000 damage regardless. On a short fight, you're going to do more with the magic AP switch turned on.

You forgot Evocation .