[MACRO] Arcane Mage DPS Macro

[Taliesin]

I'm wondering if the arcane spec is better.

I'm not going to try and answer that one for you, except to give you my strats for comparison. Besides the macro above, Luan's "turbo" (or as I refer to the "OMGDPS" button), I use:

/cast Arcane Power
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Mirror Image

Reason I repeat the first three lines from the regular DPS last macro is because boss fights I tend to open up with this, so most are probably off cooldown. I suppose if I really wanted to get fancy I could give her a second macro or keybind to cast Arcane Missiles after I see (or hear) the proc, and add a [nochanneling] clause to the regular DPS macro. I just don't see the need to until my other DPS actually start to beat her (i.e. she's not my DPS weak link that I need to be worried about right now).

Nothing wrong with Frost mages at all, even these days in Lich. They are still the most mana efficient, and even help other casters in ways an Arcane mage can't with the mana regen buff from the elemental (always a very popular raid feature). The last time I researched into Frost, they had some shatter combos to maximize DPS that I just didn't want to have to get into. That was a while ago now, so maybe those things have been made easier. Initial DPS simulations after the Lich changes actually had Fire as top DPS (least mana efficient), Arcane second, and Frost third (most mana efficient). I don't know how they stack on the latest build.