Is there any data on whether fire or arcane pushes out better dps? I know that when Cata came out, fire was apparently highest but is it still?
Thanks!
Is there any data on whether fire or arcane pushes out better dps? I know that when Cata came out, fire was apparently highest but is it still?
Thanks!
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Fire is a dps spec?
Arcane > Frost > Fire for single target DPS. Frost can exceed Arcane depending on gear.
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Fire is one of the weakest dps specs in game at the moment. Arcane is generally the best with frost not far behind it until top gear levels where perfectly played frost comes close to arcane, but it is much more complex to play. Fire is only best on one firelands fight, Alysrazor, and its only when you are flying so your haste is increased and you can push your crit to near 100%. Other than that it sucks
Last edited by mmoc85ffc31ecb; 2011-07-25 at 09:28 PM.
No it isn't, Arcane is the highest DPS spec we have at BiS levels, and it scales best with Int. Frost pulls higher for people who never had SoW, though I'm not sold on that even being the case anymore since Frost is the only spec we have that doesn't interact with VPLC in any way.
In my gear level arcane>>>>>>>>>>fire. With even higher gear level and moving into heroic Firelands I'm sure frost will be par with arcane without shard of woe. I'm going to test it after I get my 4th piece.
Last edited by Heilige; 2011-07-25 at 10:31 PM.
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Arcane...
For Alysrazor go fire with special gear setup if your flying.
Fire is good on fights with sustained AoE, such as Maloriak, Heroic Rhyolith and so on. Otherwise, Arcane is the way to go, or frost even I guess.
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i agree frost does very nice dps in simulations, i just dont understand why i cant see any decent real world logs proving what simulations say. actually from the logs arcane crushes frost pretty hard on many fights.
argument about top players playing arcane is valid of course, but we should see at least some top frost mages too no?
why cant we see frost potential in real world environments?
Not all raidcomps have retri-palas or BMs. So Arcane is the only way to go in thios case because of arcane tactics. In this case arcane beats frost not only by a small margin.
Ugh, and here I was about to make a post asking for help with my fire mage... I much prefer frost's mechanics and I do better dps with a frost spec, but when people see the water elemental they just assume it's a PvP only spec and tell me I should play fire or arcane.
Arcane seems dull. When I switched my mage's OS to arcane I had like 5 empty buttons on my bars.