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Achloryn
I know im the biggest nub ever, but my mage is 77 so I need to learn. I know what FFB is, but what is TTW, and more so what is a TTW/FB spec? ans is the 'FB' for fire or frostbolt?
ttw =
torment the weak
fb usually means fireball.. most people who mean frost would just say frost. .(although i do admit finding myself accidently abbreviating frostbolt as fb, but i usually fix that)
this
is the cookie cutter fire/ttw spec.
edit: /facepalm.. i fubared the spec..
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nickseng
Frostbolt = FrB
Fireball = FB
:)
Post by
thalazyrican
Yea i would go arcane IMO but i will say this about arcane it gets very boring very fast. im full arcane + PoM Pyro and the rotations is so simple and boring to me. its like hit button A (Arcane blast) 3 times then hit button B (arcane Barrage) once n keep goin till missle barrage procs... then u hit A till u get a stack of three then hit button C (arcane missles) and thats it. AAABAAABAAAC or something like that.... very boring very repetitive. i love the dps but i can do it in my damn sleep lol
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Freezedeath
I agree with Thal above me. From my own personal experience, Arcane can't be beat. I've been stacking +hit for a while so I could switch to fb/ttw. I raid with a lock and a draneii, so all I needed was 368. I hit that number and respecced. It was a mistake for me. I lost around 1k dps. In Naxx 25 as arcane, I can pull 3.8-4k. After I switched to fb/ttw, it was 2.8-3k. I've seen bigger crits out of arcane as well. Highest crit I saw with fb was 12k, and only 11k out of pyro. I've pulled 14k with both ab and abarr. Add in the 2 min evocations, 5% extra haste, and extra sp, and I haven't found a better spec. I've seen fb/ttw specs do more dps than I can, but it's a spec that's gear dependant. If you're just starting out with heroics, arcane is your best bet. You'll be topping damage meters in no time.
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nickseng
Yea i would go arcane IMO but i will say this about arcane it gets very boring very fast. im full arcane + PoM Pyro and the rotations is so simple and boring to me. its like hit button A (Arcane blast) 3 times then hit button B (arcane Barrage) once n keep goin till missle barrage procs... then u hit A till u get a stack of three then hit button C (arcane missles) and thats it. AAABAAABAAAC or something like that.... very boring very repetitive. i love the dps but i can do it in my damn sleep lol
You're playing it wrong. And if you're Arcane in PVE, you should really go for IV.
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Freezedeath
You're playing it wrong. And if you're Arcane in PVE, you should really go for IV.
I agree. It always makes me smile when the shammy pops Heroism and I pop IV. 1.3 second ABs ftw.
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Corilithon
As for Thal's point on Arcane being repetitive... as far as rotation it's about the same as FFB or FB/Torment, both of those being LB, Scorch, FFB/FB, keep Scorch/LB up and Pyro on HS proc. Not really much better as far as being interesting goes. Pretty much for almost any class or spec, when you get the rotation down it's going to seem boring. Which is what interesting fight mechanics are for. =D
For Heroics, Frost is still fine. You really only need to worry about respeccing once you start to step into raids, for heroics (assuming you can't guarantee guild runs) Frost gives you good survivability for those PuG tanks, and for most heroic boss fights you can keep WE and IV up for the majority of the fight, meaning its dps isn't too shabby. FFb requires a large amount of crit to really do good dps, but again, it really matters less in Heroics. Arcane is a good starting spec because of low hit requirements and a lot of the starting gear is biased towards it, being heavy haste. Fireball/Torment is more of an end-game spec, it has a lot of gear requirements before it's better than FFb or Arcane.
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