melee can't stand off to the side and do their job, the have to move where the tank does and some tanks move all over the fucking place, they have to avoid shit that casters don't, they have to interrupt and sometimes they have to tank the last 5% of a boss because the healer did 30% overhealing and let the tank die
if healing is stressful, your dps aren't doing their job, this is how WOTLK screwed everyone up, now people have to be accountable and when they aren't, the slack HAS to be taken up by someone else
healing is as easy as anything else when everyone is using defensive cds, avoiding shit, using their lock cookie or hitting the damn gong when they atramedes is casting searing flames
if someone is slacking, someone else has to deal with that
You cannot spam Arcane Blast anymore. It costs nearly 10,000 mana at 3 stacks. Quit being silly. It's still not complicated, but having a three spell main rotation (AB, ABar, AM) plus cooldowns makes it the same as almost any other class or dps spec. Arcane is dead at the moment, but when it isn't, managing mana with Cata's Arcane leaves TONS of room for error and poor players will not be able to maintain decent DPS with it.
Almost every DPS spec has 1-3 main attacks and a few cooldowns in the rotation. Quit pretending one class it much harder than another. They're all easy.
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If you're not prepared to Mage it up, I'd say Boomkin.
You track 2 DoTs, you use ability every time it's off CD and it procs, , and you push the Eclipse bar one way with one spell until it reaches the end, and the other way with the other relative spell when it reaches the opposite end.
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Arcane is not easy to master. The rotation is abit complicated to get perfect everytime. I havent raided anything special in cata, but the rotation is something like: ABx4, AM, Mana gem, AB till 40% mana, AM, Evoc and then u need to save mana untill its all ready again.
Arcane mage wins by a long-shot!
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The Arcane rotation is indeed very simple, however, the mana management makes it a bit harder. Despite that, I would say Arcane...but Arcane does useless dps these days, great while you're standing in one spot, horrible as soon as you have to move.
I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about Arcane mages. With 30-40 second Heroic dungeon fights, yes, they are 100% faceroll. But people sticking up for them are likely referring to 4-6 minute raid bosses, where you can't be a moron and pull more than 10k, cause you'll run OOM crazy fast.
Every single day I see another "what is the easiest class/spec" thread. They are a complete joke and always turn into a shitstorm full of people complaining about Arcane Mages and Fury Warriors, they need to be banned IMO
Without scorch-weaving fire runs oom at the same pace. Arcane has no arguement, it's just simple, always has been.
all classes have pretty simple rotations that work fine, however getting to really know a classes inner workings and being great at said class is another thing all together