Dual boxing mages spec?

[pinotnoir]

2 pom pyros are fun. I have 3 and will be testing them out once I get more gear. I plan on 2 shaman 3 mage when grinding bg's so I will have EM NS CL + 3 Pom Pyros every 3 min

[Tasty]

Scorch and impact are great until diminishing returns kicks in

[Millz]

I've got 4 frost mages at level 40 currently, and frost is definately a nice spec. Yes 1 char can break the freeze, but with winters chill stacking, the ice barrier shield, water elementals, and frostbite.. the target mob is constantly frozen.. and drops incredibly fast.

I was taking down elite mobs in SM without the target being able to move from its original spot when i first attacked it....

[aluminex]

Hello all!

To start i'm fairly new to the dual boxing scene. Only recently bought a second account to take advantage of the RaF scheme a week ago. In that time i've leveled my dual boxing shamans to 59 but not to 60, otherwise I believe they lose the ability to grant levels. Now that went very smoothly and was very easy to manage, as I specced them both Elemental.

Now, according to my goal to level every class barring the ones I already have at a high level, i've moved on to a mage. I'm debating what spec to have on these. On one side I could go both full fire and just nuke things down. However I could go full frost as i've heard (from these forums) that dual Frostbite and Shatter would be a great combo. Also I could spec fire/frost, but I think this would be shooting myself in the foot so to speak, with the different spell ranges, cooldowns etc.

I am here to ask of you for your opinions on what spec should I level these mages? What works well? At the moment i'm very tempted by the dual frost spec.

Thanks :thumbup: ,

nFuriate

Don't go fire.. you can't flamestrike....

[Naysayer]

Thanks for the clarification, akoko

Two frost mages can keep a large group of people frozen indefinitely. It'd be scary to imagine what 3 or 4 could do.

Assuming fear bombs don't exist however.

How do you keep them frozen with diminishing returns?

Btw are diminishing returns for the fearer or fearee? i mean with 2 people fearing one enemy, will they still both reach the 'immune' after (lets say) the 4th fear, or will they both have 4 fears each (making it 8 fears before they both see the immune message) ?

The fearee.

4th fear from any source before diminishing returns have cooled down is going to be an immune to fear.

[Aethon]

2 pom pyros are fun. I have 3 and will be testing them out once I get more gear. I plan on 2 shaman 3 mage when grinding bg's so I will have EM NS CL + 3 Pom Pyros every 3 min

Completely fun. Until you see them go to 2 grounding totems and you scream at your laptop :-/

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The chance Frozen effects are broken when the target is critically struck by a spell has been increased.

This should only affect Frozen targets that are hit with a spell crit; the Frozen effect can be broken by a spell crit from any player, not just the player that created the Frozen effect. However, please keep in mind that this is already how the game currently works. Only the chance of the Frozen effect being broken has been changed; the types of attacks that can break the Frozen effect will not be changed.

It is still possible to score Frostbolt followed by Ice Lance on a frozen target and get double crit, however the situation will still be closely monitored and may be adjusted in the future.

The change affects Frost Nova. Frozen targets were never intended to be frozen after a critical. However, the usage of Ice Lance made it very noticable that being frozen was persisting through being crit, whereas normal damage had a chance to break the state. By insuring that a crit will break the frozen state, back to back crits from Ice Lance won't be occurring and such spikes in damage disappear.

The obvious result of this for multiboxers is that once the first critical hits the frozen target, it immediately breaks, preventing your other 2-4 frostbolts/icelances from gaining the critical bonus against frozen targets from Shatter. This renders having more than two frost mages in your mage group a pointless proposition as the whole reason to spec frost is for control and shatter crit damage. When you start killing things that are immune to the slowing effect, the only thing remaining is the shatter crit damage. Thus, my point about having more than two mages being pointless to remain frost.

Just in case I missed some recent mechanic change since I last verified this, I'll go respec my fire mages to frost tonight and pull some logs.

Cheerio.