Theorycraft: Mages in WotLK

[mackenziemi]

I wanted to throw open a thread up for people that want to talk about the mage changes. I currently have 2 mages. One is a 65 and speced Frost the other is 70 and speced Arc. I am getting some pretty good results with the Arc Mage using a rotation of 2 arcane blasts followed by a Arcane Barrage. Anyway I am just cruious what other people are finding that works and what they like

[Suvega]

4 mages 1 priest is pretty uber atm.

Arcane barrage * 4 is around 6-10k dmg.

On Beta, Arcane Barrage, Fireblast, Arcane Barrage owns everything but warlocks.

[mackenziemi]

WoW I hadn't even thought of throwing fireblast into that rotation ..../drool

[pinotnoir]

i made a post in the macro forums. I made a cast sequence with arcane barrage, ice lance, ice lance, fire blast. Then repeat. You can spam that non stop and all the timers will be up so no more casting. When you get the buff for arcane missles use it. That arcane missle thing is pretty sweet.

[badashh]

I have been arcane since the patch, mostly because I spend too much money on alts and can't afford to respec. But i love Arcane barrage, I 3 shot a warr in AV with just arcane barrace, fire blast, arcane barrage. It really beefs up the arcane spec to get out of sticky situations. So much of the frost tree is gear towards pvp, I think you can't lose with either fire or arcane for pve.

I'd drop one of those ice lances out of your cast sequence, it is only a 3 second cooldown, so arcane barrage, fireblast, icelance

[Dominian]

From what mages say even thought i have played mine latley arcane works wonders in bgs but gives to low surv to play arena with it.

[pinotnoir]

I have been arcane since the patch, mostly because I spend too much money on alts and can't afford to respec. But i love Arcane barrage, I 3 shot a warr in AV with just arcane barrace, fire blast, arcane barrage. It really beefs up the arcane spec to get out of sticky situations. So much of the frost tree is gear towards pvp, I think you can't lose with either fire or arcane for pve.

I'd drop one of those ice lances out of your cast sequence, it is only a 3 second cooldown, so arcane barrage, fireblast, icelance

I changed my macro up some.. The second AB doesnt come up for about a half second so if your spamming the button it may not be up.

/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","0")
/use 13
/use 14
/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","1")
/castsequence [target=focustarget] reset=8 Arcane Barrage, Ice Lance, Arcane Barrage, Fire Blast

[Tasty]

Arcane Barrage, Instant Invis and soon enough Mirror Image. Woohoo

[algol]

Instant Invis and soon enough Mirror Image. Woohoo

Or as the multiboxers call it, "Clone Army."

[Quix]

Mages are definitely fun to multibox, they were my first, & are still my favorite. The Arcane barrage deal is just too good to pass up.