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Arcane Mage with pathetic DPS, what am I doing wrong?
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greywolfsage
You have heartsong. Red Flag.
Spirit is WORTHLESS.
That should be Power Torrent. Hands down. Hurricane maybe if you have crap luck in zandalari de rolls.
Haste is also a stronger stat for Arcane than Crit. (Robes)
4pc is quite nice. It does have an impact.
Core of Ripeness is a half wasted trinket slot.
Soul Casket or DMC:Volcano, far superior.
Offhand is a healer item. Beauty's Bone or Book from Halfus.
Put int/hit gem in belt, and probably reforge the crit, put you over cap. Missing spells is hurting your dps.
Again, Band of Secret Names, reforge the crit not the haste.
Again on the Breeches.
You probably went for crit due to Master of Elements. You possibly haven't heard that the mana return operates off the base 870 mana, and not the modified stacks.
you get 276 mana or so back a crit, its not helpin' ya much.
Spec seems ok. And 14k isnt that bad. Thats usually what I will normalize around if I'm Arcane. I just burst like a truck.
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greywolfsage
Arcane uses at least 13% haste, but the sim was probably banking on raid haste or something.
But the 13% is only to get you to 1 sec cast under lust or so ive read.
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greywolfsage
Get yourself up to 4 stacks of arcane blast before you pop arcane power, your mana gems, and trinkets.
Use your flame orb right away so you can trigger your DMC: Volcano (when you get it) faster so you can use your mana gem right away.
Other people have already mentioned your gear, gem, and enchant issues.
DMC seems to have a very good proc rate. By the time I get 4 stacks up on my mage, Volcanic Destruction is up and ticking.
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greywolfsage
In what setting?
Crit isn't bad, so much as Haste and Mastery are so much better.
Firelord's legs have a lot of hit on them so you can get back some of your reforges.
Also, try getting back some mastery on a piece, forge with something else.
You're at 13.63. 63 rating doing nothing.
And you want
Burning Shadowspirit Diamond
. Don't fire off so quick if you're pulling threat. Or, use Mirrors.
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Thunderbro
You're at 13.63. 63 rating doing nothing.
Mastery works with non-whole numbers. The extra .63 rating DOES do something. It's not like expertise where you have to hit the next whole number to get more of its worth.
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