Okay guys and gals; I know you get alot of these but I'm curious....What should I be doing dps wise. My guild just started running Naxx and I'm still running Heroics. Last night in Naxx I was pushing around 2.1k. Is that about right for my gear? Any advise would be much appreciated.
My armory is: www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Antonidas&n=Grudgbringer&ST=US-2892137-WIeMuGYADufy0wq9dKTqlh71xiggecBkibl&rhtml=true
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http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Antonidas&n=Grudgbringer is the proper link to your armory.
You should be using the chaotic skyflare diamond, no exceptions.
Your TS: Ring should have a runed scarlet ruby in it.
If you want to stay as arcane you are over the hit cap by 3% (3% from Arcane, 3% from Frost, 3% from shadowpriest/boomkin) leaves you with only needing 8% hit to be capped to 17% -- that is unless you never have either of them in your raids to give hit debuffs...
Mage armor glyph is 100% worthless (you are capped at 100% regeneration which you get in talents). If you have mana problems get the mana gem glyph. Otherwise get molten armor glyph.
What rotation are you using?
As arcane it should most always be ABx3 - AM, no real exceptions unless you are having mana problems and you can do ABx2 - AM.
Also, remember that as Arcane you will be favoring Haste > Crit for the most part. So any yellow gems should be spellpower/haste (reckless).
Although I generally recommend people who are starting out with a lower gear level to use Frostfire as it has good mana efficiency and it hits hard for the gear level, but doesn't scale very well at all after T7 (or even at the end of T7).
Your legs are not enchanted (neither is your chest) you can probably find one of the non-epic spellthreads for fairly cheap and get an easy boost there. 8stats on chest is also cheap. Your glove enchant should be spellpower. Your head enchant should be spellpower/crit from Kirin Tor. Back could be enchanted with 20 haste (I believe is the number) the enchant is fairly cheap.
Edited, Aug 3rd 2009 8:16am by Anobix
Edited, Aug 3rd 2009 9:00am by Anobix
You should be using the chaotic skyflare diamond, no exceptions.
Your TS: Ring should have a runed scarlet ruby in it.
If you want to stay as arcane you are over the hit cap by 3% (3% from Arcane, 3% from Frost, 3% from shadowpriest/boomkin) leaves you with only needing 8% hit to be capped to 17% -- that is unless you never have either of them in your raids to give hit debuffs...
Mage armor glyph is 100% worthless (you are capped at 100% regeneration which you get in talents). If you have mana problems get the mana gem glyph. Otherwise get molten armor glyph.
What rotation are you using?
As arcane it should most always be ABx3 - AM, no real exceptions unless you are having mana problems and you can do ABx2 - AM.
Also, remember that as Arcane you will be favoring Haste > Crit for the most part. So any yellow gems should be spellpower/haste (reckless).
Although I generally recommend people who are starting out with a lower gear level to use Frostfire as it has good mana efficiency and it hits hard for the gear level, but doesn't scale very well at all after T7 (or even at the end of T7).
Your legs are not enchanted (neither is your chest) you can probably find one of the non-epic spellthreads for fairly cheap and get an easy boost there. 8stats on chest is also cheap. Your glove enchant should be spellpower. Your head enchant should be spellpower/crit from Kirin Tor. Back could be enchanted with 20 haste (I believe is the number) the enchant is fairly cheap.
Edited, Aug 3rd 2009 8:16am by Anobix
Edited, Aug 3rd 2009 9:00am by Anobix
2100 in that gear doesn't seem horrible to me, you seem like a fresh 80 and most fresh 80's with a good spec seem to do between 1800 and 2200 DPS. That said, listen to Anobix, if you're able to somehow squeeze out more DPS out of that gear he'll know how.
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Ok, so I might sound like a noob...but that's ok. (Laughing at yourself is healthy right...)
I would love to squeeze more dps out of my mage. What changes could I make with my current gear or talent build? I don't have terrible gear, but I'm working on better. I'd love to hear what you have to say, if you have a minute. All the tips are appreciated!!
Armory link is : http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Ursin&n=kemalya
Thanks again!
I would love to squeeze more dps out of my mage. What changes could I make with my current gear or talent build? I don't have terrible gear, but I'm working on better. I'd love to hear what you have to say, if you have a minute. All the tips are appreciated!!
Armory link is : http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Ursin&n=kemalya
Thanks again!
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Ok, so I might sound like a noob...but that's ok. (Laughing at yourself is healthy right...)
I would love to squeeze more dps out of my mage. What changes could I make with my current gear or talent build? I don't have terrible gear, but I'm working on better. I'd love to hear what you have to say, if you have a minute. All the tips are appreciated!!
Armory link is : http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Ursin&n=kemalya
Thanks again!
I would love to squeeze more dps out of my mage. What changes could I make with my current gear or talent build? I don't have terrible gear, but I'm working on better. I'd love to hear what you have to say, if you have a minute. All the tips are appreciated!!
Armory link is : http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Ursin&n=kemalya
Thanks again!
I'll have a shot. You ask to do more damage, but your 2 of your glyphs are for survival/mana regen purposes. If you want to be fireball spec use the fireball glyph. In any case the evo one is only useful for pvp. Its the healers job to top you up, not you (with a 4min cd talent).
Furthermore you picked 'Pressence of Mind' in favor of Living bomb. A spell that has a cd and makes you shoot one instant spell (so in the end a very very small dps increase), in favor of a spell that has very very high dps. It would be best if you respec to living bomb (and get the glyph as well).
Your talents and glyphs suggests you have mana problems. Are you using managem exactly the moment you have -4k of your total mana? Using your mana gem effectively (using it asap) handles a lot of mages mana problems. But when you're fire you shouldn't have that much mana problems anyway.
If you want to be fireball; this are the spec and glyphs you want to have.
Gl!
A few things I noticed: (beyond the already mentioned living bomb + glyphs problems that you have).
Your gear level is too low to really benefit from fireball spec, you should check out a 0/53/18 (ish) frostfire spec as you continue to gear up. Your meta gem is terrible, chaotic skyflare - ALWAYS, no exceptions for every mage PvE spec. Blue gems to match sockets/meta should be purified gems (spellpower/spirit), you shouldn't need to be enchanting/gemming for hit to run as fireball, it is slightly more okay as you are gearing up to use frostfire... but you are close to hit cap at frostfire anyway without gemming/enchanting for it. Leg enchant should be spellpower/spirit - ALWAYS. Your belt gem is bad, +stats is bad for mages. Should be a spellpower gem or if you don't have another blue socket to match for the meta you can put your second purified gem there.
Edited, Sep 16th 2009 8:15am by Anobix
Your gear level is too low to really benefit from fireball spec, you should check out a 0/53/18 (ish) frostfire spec as you continue to gear up. Your meta gem is terrible, chaotic skyflare - ALWAYS, no exceptions for every mage PvE spec. Blue gems to match sockets/meta should be purified gems (spellpower/spirit), you shouldn't need to be enchanting/gemming for hit to run as fireball, it is slightly more okay as you are gearing up to use frostfire... but you are close to hit cap at frostfire anyway without gemming/enchanting for it. Leg enchant should be spellpower/spirit - ALWAYS. Your belt gem is bad, +stats is bad for mages. Should be a spellpower gem or if you don't have another blue socket to match for the meta you can put your second purified gem there.
Edited, Sep 16th 2009 8:15am by Anobix
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