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Mages the Lowest DPS Class in the Game?
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Jacmac
Rather than something wrong with the class, there is probably something about the encounters that don't lend themselves to standing around pummeling a single target. Any time a mage has to move, dps is going to suffer. Silence, stuns, adds, anything that disrupts single target focus is going to drop a mages dps. That doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the class.
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Toranch
I was looking at the DPS charts for Lich King kills by <Ensidia> and <Vodka>, and mages are at the bottom of the list in both kills. These people are experts in fine-tuning their characters, so I am thinking it must be something wrong the the class. Does anyone have any insight into why this is?
Have you really thought through what you're asking? On
one
fight (well there are a number of fights, but you're basing your question on a single encounter) mages aren't performing at the top of the meters. It's for a simple reason too: there are multiple mobs up for much of the fight. Naturally classes that can single target DPS
and
AoE at the same time (read: melee and warlocks especially) are going to rock the meters.
Arcane mages will fall behind, because single target DPS on that fight is more important than the AoE an alternative spec would bring about (FFB for example).
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Braevia
I was looking at the DPS charts for Lich King kills by <Ensidia> and <Vodka>, and mages are at the bottom of the list in both kills. These people are experts in fine-tuning their characters, so I am thinking it must be something wrong the the class. Does anyone have any insight into why this is?
Let me see if I've got this straight: You parsed the charts for a *single fight* done by *two guilds*, one of which has been banned for exploiting a bug, and based on this info you've determined that an entire class is broken?
This is the death of the scientific method, ladies and gentlemen. Mark this day on your calendars: Elaus killed it.
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Astygia
Not to sound nasty, but I wouldn't base a single thing off of Ensidia's logs, not now or ever. I'm not even on their realm and it's pretty common knowledge that they use whichever exploit works best, as opposed to optimal raid comp.
As others said, mages profit from ToT and suffer from losing it; check out the
Saurfang 10
parse to illustrate this.
If any class is really performing lower than it should, I'd guess maybe sub rogues? I don't know, last time I really cried for a class to get a buff was for ret pallies pre-wotlk, and they got it. Mages definitely are not suffering though.
EDIT: Linked the wrong parse
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dabrixmgp
Yes mages do poorly on 1 boss fight out of like 50, or how ever many bosses are in this expansion, therefore they suck. Nice logic.
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dabrixmgp
Yes mages do poorly on 1 boss fight out of like 50, or how ever many bosses are in this expansion, therefore they suck. Nice logic.
You don't even know how many bosses are in this expansion, so how are you credible source that mages are doing well in all the other fights?
Are you some kind of retard or have you just never raided with a mage? Or have you even raided at all? Even if you are level 80 you are probably some retard pally with agi gems in full blues who hasnt even been to Naxx yet.
Mages are fine
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