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Frostfire or Arc/Frost - am I missing something?
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Achloryn
for one thing.. your haste is really too low for the fire/ttw build. (or for the arcane build really for that matter. only 159 haste? ouch). the problem with the fireball and frostfire builds is that they're very streaky and very crit dependant. builds like those tend to do MUCH better if you have an ele shaman and a boomkin in your raid because they will passively increase your crit chance with
elemental oath
and
moonkin form
. Also, if you have a boomkin in your raid then they'll have
improved faerie fire
up which means you can gear for less hit rating with any spec. I too, at times, have trouble making ffb compare to my damage done with arcane, and i really think a lot of it has to do with raid composition. The best thing i can tell you is that the better your gear gets, the better that the ffb and fb/ttw builds will be. So try replacing those t7 pieces with something better (t7.5 at least) and see if that helps.
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Post by
Achloryn
I've actually just regemmed some crit into haste just after posting this, after running my character through the
TCoM
. I thought haste might've been a problem - glad I wasn't alone in that. Also glad I'm not the only one struggling with FFB!
We normally have a shaman in our raid team, but our druid's a healer (albeit a very good one :D ); I guess having focus magic proc when I'm in arcane makes a big difference as well. I miss having another arcane mage in our team :(
don't feel bad.. our boomkin went to another guild for some reason, we don't have a shadow priest, and our shaman has to heal 98% of the time.. /sigh.(i love when he goes ele.. elemental oath and totem of wrath FTFW).
The gear's steadily improving. I suppose when the new patch comes in it'll be easier to get hold of some higher tier gear.
Thanks for the advice :)
don't even get started on that.. rofl
Post by
Darkwraith01
I've been looking through your mage, psyk02, and I have to agree with Achloryn: you need haste.
Your haste level is way too low for any spec: for Arcane, you need high haste to keep dishing burts of damage effectively; for FFB and Torment, you need haste because Frostfire bolt and Fireball are relatively slow casting spells (when compared with Arcane Blast, for example).
What I'd do if I were you (in Torment Spec):
Get your hit to 368. With that, and a Warlock or Druid in your party you will be hit capped.
Get your haste to around 350 (at least, although 400ish is desired).
After 1 and 2, get your crit to as high as possible. My toon has nice gear (
Arcanesoul
), but I still believe I need more crit, since I'm standing at 521 crit rating (unbuffed) today.
Don't forget that on top of all things, you need to keep your spellpower high at all times. If you can manage to get your spellpower to around 2.3k while mantaining all 3 suggestions above, you'll see yourself soaring on the damage meters (of course, below hunters and rogues since they are extremely op).
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Darkwraith01
Thank you!
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