Originally Posted by
Rethys
Here's my, personal, opener:
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Pre-Pot
Pre-Cast Frostbolt
Mage Bomb
Frozen Orb
Frostbolt, Ice Lance, FFB, whatever, etc.
FoF/BF procs as soon as I get them. I dont typically wait until 3 stacks of frostbolt debuff to use Frozen orb or ice lance, but that's just me.
Like I said before, I do not use Alter Time to snapshot FoF/BF procs, I use it to capture my trinket/jade spirit/embroidery procs to get an extra 6 seconds of hasted, icy veined tastiness. If I have procs, great, if not... no big deal. Using alter time as a fire and frost/arcane mage are very different- one is about capturing procs(fire, hot streak/heating up), the other is about maximizing uptime on buffs (frost) and arcane is sort of a mix between the two (at least it was in 5.1).
Great addon for tracking ICD is ExtraCD.