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  1. #961
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kuni Zyrekai View Post
    RNG is still RNG and still moody as always. I thought the same as you, until I did BH today, where I was swimming in procs.

    You say "fairly" equivalent, what does this mean exactly? What was your raid comp last week and this week? Logs, as always, will help diagnose the problem or at least see that there was indeed a lowered proc chance/bad luck.
    Hey guys,

    I've check with the guild leader and sadly he didn't log the other night, which is unfortunate for this discussion. We're going back in tonight, so perhaps I'll have something later to help.

    As for raid comp, we had 6 dps for the Baleroc fight (which is the closest I can get to Patchwerk test atm). Melee were warrior, rogue and feral, but I had an elemental shaman, arcane mage and hunter with 8% spell damage pet on the Baleroc fight, and I came out about 18k average in 6th place... which was disappointing. Having done some more research, I think I may have been managing my FoF procs badly.

    Anyway, hopefully I'll get some logs for tonight. In which case, consider this to be continued...

    Thanks for replying.

    Squeaks

  2. #962
    Thanks for the guide it was a great help.

  3. #963
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    Just downloaded SimC 422-4 and I´m absolutely bewildered. I´ve took 4.2 T12H BiS and runned it with PTR settings (25.000 Iterations). The results are as following:

    Mage Fire T12H DTR: 42234 DPS
    Mage Arcane T12H DTR: 40948 DPS
    Mage Fire T12H: 38884 DPS
    Mage Frost T12H DTR: 38690 DPS
    Mage Arcane T12H: 38314 DPS
    Mage Frost T12H: 36309 DPS


    Arcane without DTR very close to Frost DTR and Fire without DTR ahead Frost DTR. Thats very frustrating to be honest.
    Last edited by mmocc7076034c2; 2011-10-31 at 10:49 AM.

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    Keep in mind that the only spec to receive buffs on the PTR is Fire. There are more builds to go before live, give it time.

  5. #965
    Quote Originally Posted by scuac View Post

    3) Break my 4pT11 bonus and get a mix of 2pT11 and 2pT12


    Does any of that sound crazy or is it sound advice?
    my guess for the mixed t11 and t12 set is that frost has a crit cap of 33%, which will then give you a 100% crit chance if you have FoF proc. since the t11 2 set gives you a 5% extra crit chance it might be better dps increase than the 15% extra proc chance for the brain freeze.

    this is just a guess, havent done any math behind it.

  6. #966
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swizzle View Post
    Keep in mind that the only spec to receive buffs on the PTR is Fire. There are more builds to go before live, give it time.
    Let's hope so, by goodness! I wish I had your optimism : )
    Last edited by mmocc7076034c2; 2011-10-31 at 11:19 PM.

  7. #967
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    !!

    Awesome man!

    User was infracted for this post.
    Last edited by Swizzle; 2011-11-10 at 06:27 AM.

  8. #968
    Approx. how much of a DPS increase is 4p T12? Just curious to know how much of a loss/gain it is to gain/ditch the bonus. And on the front page it says Haste devalues when you get the bonus. Does that mean I start ditching Haste in favor of Mastery and reforge everything I'm wearing? Or is it really not a big deal?

  9. #969
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    The difference is approx 2k DPS (with 2p only) with BiS gear. I try to reforge to mastery as much as i can at the moment - after hit and crit cap of course.

  10. #970
    Quote Originally Posted by citizenpete View Post
    The difference is approx 2k DPS (with 2p only) with BiS gear. I try to reforge to mastery as much as i can at the moment - after hit and crit cap of course.
    Okay got it. Thanks!

  11. #971
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    (4) Set: Each stack of Stolen Time also reduces the cooldown of Arcane Power by 7 sec, Combustion by 5 sec, and Icy Veins by 10 sec.
    would be so much better as
    (4) Set: Each stack of Stolen Time also reduces the cooldown of Arcane Power by 7 sec, Combustion by 5 sec, and Deep Freeze by 2 sec.

  12. #972
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    I would just like to see thanks for keeping the thread alive it helped me quite allot.

    Its verry fun to see people's reaction the second you join a ZA/ZG the first comments about you're Frost spec.
    Then at the end of the dungeon there are still a few hotheads moaning about not doing enough dps on trash ( really? )
    I have since recently joined a verry fun 10 man guild that raids on a rather high progression ( 6/7 heroic firelands pre nerf ) and since we only raid 2 days a week we havent really bothered trying on ragg heroic, the first day i got into a new raid ( it was acctualy a BWD heroic acievement run, they lacked a dps )
    they gave me a rather hard time about being frost, although i sticked with my "excuse" that frost was a viable spec. at the end of the night i got a couple of
    reactions from them that they did not expect a frost mage to do that ammount of damage. because i left a good impression they invited me to join there 6/7 heroic "farm" night, and get some free loot :P, here comes the fun part ( keep in mind all these raiders i joined had like 5-6 parts BiS gear cause they have been farming firelands for a while. ) on most bosses that did not require AoE, i ended up in the top 3 of total damage done, they got insanely suprised and gave me a permanent spot in there raiding team. ( they lacked a mage for over 6 months CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!? ) now my gear isnt really high end ( il give link in a sec ) and i did the same damage output as they did in full heroic gear, so i felt good :P.

    TLR

    -Stick with frost if you enjoy it it does competitive dps.
    -If people wont accept you for being frost, its there loss if played correctly it can be a good mage spec.
    -Frost is awesome

    Since its 03:11 here now im pretty damn tired and i will clean up this post tommorow, i just wanted to thank the original poster for creating this topic, since without him i still think i would have been rotting away in the dull arcane spec ( YES I SAID IT BIACHES ) and i would like to tell all the mages that are tempting to go back to fire/arcane not to do it, cause if you get frost under control, its one of the most fun specs to play,

    Goodnight world! and fellow frost PVE friends, hang on! our time shall be soon


    -edit- SEE HOW TIRED I AM?! I FORGOT TO POST MY ARMORY

    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte.../Karudo/simple
    Last edited by mmoc95246e56fb; 2011-11-07 at 02:18 AM.

  13. #973
    When does the DMF Volcano trinket get outclassed? The Electro....magnetic...pulse...thingy ma-bob might drop when we finally kill Rag and I was curious if it's even close to being a suitable replacement.

  14. #974
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    There are only 3 stronger trinkets out there: VPLC 384 and 397. Theoretical Necromantic Focus 391 is better than DMC:V, but the difference is very small. If u lack some hit, then use DMC:V. You can reach higher (and of course lower) parses with DMC:V (proc during BL together with FFO for example).


    @markdead

    Welcome to the club : ) Let´s hope frost will be playable - or is the word really "viable" ? Things look black at the moment: The T13 4p is pretty bad and a pain in the ass to play with and frost with legendary is horrible. So don´t bury your arcane and fire spec too deeply : /

  15. #975
    Quote Originally Posted by citizenpete View Post
    There are only 3 stronger trinkets out there: VPLC 384 and 397. Theoretical Necromantic Focus 391 is better than DMC:V, but the difference is very small. If u lack some hit, then use DMC:V. You can reach higher (and of course lower) parses with DMC:V (proc during BL together with FFO for example).
    Wow I'm surprised Blizzard (accidentally) made the card so powerful. Well hopefully I get that VPLC.

    Currently I have Rune of Zeth and DMF Card. If I got that VPLC would I replace the Rune then since its not one of the 3 trinkets better than DMF Card?
    Last edited by Bombkirby; 2011-11-07 at 06:37 PM.

  16. #976
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    Switching Rune of Zeth with VPLC will be a 500 - 700 DPS gain.

    391/397

    VPLC
    NF
    DMC:V

    378/384

    VPLC
    DMC:V
    NF
    Last edited by mmocc7076034c2; 2011-11-07 at 10:42 PM.

  17. #977
    I just found out the other day that I now have enough base crit to completely forgo Glyph of Molten armor and instead use Glyph of frostbolt.


    WHAT DOES IT MEAN?! I don't know but things are about to get crazy-go-nuts!


    To frost.

  18. #978
    Quote Originally Posted by citizenpete View Post
    Switching Rune of Zeth with VPLC will be a 500 - 700 DPS gain.

    391/397

    VPLC
    NF
    DMC:V

    378/384

    VPLC
    DMC:V
    NF
    Sweet. Thanks for the help/info.

  19. #979
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zumzumzum View Post
    I hope 4.3 isn't coming too soon, at this rate we might get a Set bonus that just resets Icy Veins duration at each Frost Bolt
    This is comiiiing x)
    They stilll have some time to implement that.

    Now seriously :
    I might be wrong but if each stack reduces Icy Veins CD by 15 sec, and we need 2-3 seconds by stack, it looks like we will have 50% uptime of Icy Veins ?
    Last edited by mmoc8b57eca00f; 2011-11-08 at 11:09 PM.

  20. #980
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    Item - Mage T13 4P Bonus (Arcane Power, Combustion, and Icy Veins) now reduces the cooldown of Icy Veins by 15 sec, up from 10 sec. Icy Veins will be ready every 8 - 9 stacks - maybe sooner. The 4p is still bad, even if you have icy veins all the time +20% haste. Haste near or beyond GCD (50% Haste) is waste. Frost 4.3 is really bad at the moment : / I am used to frost in the past few months, I`m really sad.

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