Mage DPS Input Requested

[kadaan]

I have one mage on my team, and it's always the lowest dps despite adequate gear. The main reason is, from what I can tell, my lack of using the free fireball as frost or the free pyro as fire. As frost, I just nuked with Frostfire Bolt and nothing else. As fire, I have a castsequence to cast Scorch, Living Bomb, 4 fireballs, Living Bomb, 4 fireballs, repeat.

With Hot Streak, 2 crits in a row is a 100% chance to make my next Pyroblast instant cast, which would be a HUGE dps boost. I recently downloaded PowerAuras to put some big glowy icons on my mage's window when it procs so I can try and take advantage of it. Does anyone else have a different setup for trying to maximize your mage's dps?

I was also playing with /castrandom after some successful testing with my shaman, but it didn't work for my mage. I tried something like this:

/castrandom Pyroblast
/stopcasting
/castsequence reset=target/combat Scorch,Living Bomb,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Living Bomb,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball

Since a /castsequence with /castrandom after it worked great for lava burst's cooldown, I was hoping this macro would try and cast Pyroblast, stop instantly (so it goes off if it's an instant, cancelled otherwise), and go on to my castsequence if HS wasn't up. Unfortunately the /stopcasting breaks the macro and it never casts anything at all :). Anyone know if it's possible to have a 1-button /castsequence macro that can cast the pyro when HS is up?

[moog]

My mage is arcane/fire and I use PowerAura to monitor for the Missile Barrage proc to get my fast Arcane Missiles off (and in her previous incarnation of pure fire mage, I monitored for Hot Streak for the insta-Pyro).
I just pop up a text message with PowerAura telling me which proc has been seen and reminding me which key to use to take advantage of it (I have other procs on other chars, Warlock 'Decimation' for instance, so a reminder is helpful).
If my mage procs, I press 0 which runs a macro on the mage along the lines of...

/stopcasting
/cast Arcane Missiles

and I then go back to my main DPS macro.

[Bot]

you can setup miks scrolling battle text to give you a sound and scrolling text notification on your mains screen for the free pyro proc. its what i use for hot streaks. i dont have my macro on hand but ill try and post it later

[Greythan]

Or spec frost, summon the Water Elemental whenever ready, and spam frostbolt.

I am a huge proponent of less micro. I'm also a huge proponent of pets as they take no DPS micro at all. They simply spam their attacks.

My mage is never last in my group's DPS.

[X-Ifist]

Could try



/castsequence reset=target/combat Scorch,Living Bomb,Fireball,Fireball,,,Fireball,Fireball,Living Bomb,,,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,,,Fireball

/castrandom Pyroblast

[KvdM]

I was toying with a similar idea with Surv. Hunter's "Lock and Load" talent. In the end I decided that its just not a good talent for multiboxers - and somewhat in general since the total reworking of explosive shot.

For LnL it works perfectly.

[genocyde]

For my mages i was full arcane and used pitbulls buff frame to display missile barrage procs so I could use them individually on each of my 3 mages. Doing this I have managed to get as high as 3x 6000+ DPS on a heroic boss wearing almost half blues half heroic/naxx boe epics. Granted that was before 3.1, I never even downloaded the last patch to see what I'd do now.

[kadaan]

I was frost the whole time leveling, and through most of my heroics. After the last talent reset I went 0/53/18 and am debating an 18/53/0 TTW build. Frost just isn't competitive atm, and even without using the instant pyroblasts I still saw a ~100-200dps increase.

I have sounds turned off on all my slaves, so I guess Power Auras really is the best bet.

[Elektroz]

For my mages i was full arcane and used pitbulls buff frame to display missile barrage procs so I could use them individually on each of my 3 mages. Doing this I have managed to get as high as 3x 6000+ DPS on a heroic boss wearing almost half blues half heroic/naxx boe epics. Granted that was before 3.1, I never even downloaded the last patch to see what I'd do now.

Did you ever incur any mana problems or have any mana issues whilst playing with this powerful arcane spec? I feel like the arcane mages in my guild are always going oom within a matter of minutes.

[pinotnoir]

Spec frost and spam frostbolt and use your elemental. Check out my mages spec unless they cleared it. His name is Icewine on magtheridon. I cant remember if his spec is still there or if it got refunded and I didnt respec. No need to monitor anything and you use 2 buttons. One for your frostbolts, and one for your coldsnap/elemental.

Spec got wiped. Here it is
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#of0qcz0cZZAIcckfu0czgbsx