Originally Posted by
Talvindius
The benefit of the arcane set is that it's very passive. There's nearly no micromanagement needed with T21. That being said I can see why they nerfed the set. If you run kilt and 4 pc it guarantees you get a nice long burn phase to take advantage of potential haste procs.
The 2 and 4 set really benefit from crit and vers. The goal would be to finish your conserve rotation within 8 seconds (to keep 100% uptime on 2s buff), which is reasonable considering it would take very little haste to do so.
Given that the 4 set acts as "artificial haste" for the purpose of stat weights it's looking like haste will lose value and crit/vers will be the priority. For mages running the Soul ring, which is effectively more free haste, it frees up a lot of gear slots to put more vers and crit.
Given that the set is pushing for those stat weights I can see how dps would scale extremely well with ilvl to the point of ludicrous mages being able to burn through their whole mana bar destroying things with massive crits. Shaving the tier set down a bit just gimps the scaling so it doesn't get out of hand.
I still think Tier 21 is very good, being that T20 4set was hot trash you could easily run T20 2s and T21 4s to get some extremely insane RoP openers. If a haste proc happens during an opener your damage would be absolutely massive.
I don't mind the nerf. I eagerly await trying to tier out. That and the fact that it's pretty sick looking. #Norobelyfe.