Frostfire macros?

[Queshank]

The scorch glyph is a major glyph. If you want to maximize your dps, the best three glyphs to be using are the glyphs for frostfire bolt, molten armor, and living bomb. You could give up one of those for the scorch glyph, but you will be losing dps. It is an acceptable loss if you are unable to maintain the scorch debuff without using the glyph, but if you are able to macro appropriately the debuff shouldn't be falling off.

Aha! Thank you very much. I knew there had to be a catch to using that glyph. Now I just gotta get my mages to catch up to my elemental shaman's dps. 74th frost mage does around 700 to 750dps, 74th fire mage does around 750 to 800 dps, and the 74th shaman does upwards of 1200dps. I have 2 60th lvl shamans waiting in the wings to replace the 2 mages if they don't start performing! Since I've played tanks and healers since WoW's release (and in fact in the old EQ days), I've got a lot to learn about dpsing.

Queshank

[outdrsyguy1]

I think the Living bomb is overwritable in PVP vs players, just not on mobs. Not sure why either. I like it the way it is with mobs for sure.

sidenote, for some reason my mage had better dps with frost than with fire, probably had to do with the /castseuence function sucking but could have to do with the super spell buffed features of a shaman druid paly mage type team.

[Vicker]

I think the Living bomb is overwritable in PVP vs players, just not on mobs. Not sure why either. I like it the way it is with mobs for sure.

sidenote, for some reason my mage had better dps with frost than with fire, probably had to do with the /castseuence function sucking but could have to do with the super spell buffed features of a shaman druid paly mage type team.

Try this spec: http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc...00000000000000

Your frost mage has precision. When you say "fire" spec, I assume you mean a fireball based spec. Fireball specs are the best option only if you have very high end raid gear. If you're not at 1.8k spellpower and 450 spell hit, you will get higher dps from a frostfire spec. Frostfire is better for low end gear because you get the precision talent to help with your spell hit. Fireball is better for high end gear because fireball is a 3.5sec untalented cast time (versus frostfire bolt's 3 sec cast), so it benefits a little bit more from spellpower gear.

Also, don't forget about icy veins and combustion. Skipping out on those will really hurt your dps. You can add them to the macro I posted:

/castsequence reset=target scorch,scorch,scorch,scorch,vickerisawesome
/castsequence [combat,exists,harm,nodead] reset=12/target ,scorch,,frostfire bolt,,frostfire bolt,,frostfire bolt,,frostfire bolt,,frostfire bolt,,frostfire bolt
/cast living bomb
/cast combustion
/cast icy veins

Asside from that if you have a really high latency, frost might be the way to go for you. A frost macro consists of casting frostbolt over and over, so you don't have to use castsquences. Castsequences get hung up by higher latencies. In a zero lag situation, however, frostfire bolt is the way to go.

[outdrsyguy1]

thanks vicker, i'll def try that out once i finish my current project of getting 5 pvp mages. 3 levels to go!

[Allecto]

Can you take this a step further?

I want to use the /targetenemy functionality for quickly applying LB on multiple targets, then once I rotate back to a target that already has LB on it, start casting Fireball. Any ideas?