Mage question

[daviddoran]

my mage and lock always used to top each other replacing the top with every gear upgrade, or macro improvement, but I am pretty sure I've maximized both of them. on a long enough fight they are consistently very close to each other in DPS. Interestingly my lock has WAY more spellpower than my mage, something like 3300 fully buffed, and the mage comes up to 2600... both are hovering under 5k gearscore, mage has something like 42% crit fuly buffed... (and puts focus magic on my shaman, who crits a whole hell of a lot....) I find that my mage actually has better mana management, maybe because I have macro'd in using mana gems (did it mostly back when T7 or T8, i forget which buffed you with spellpower every time you used the gem) They both definately compliment each other. Especially porting/summon... best 2 spells i got lol

My Arcance Mage destroys my Destro lock in the dps charts. My 4.5 kGS mage gets about 800+ more dps than my 4.8k GS Lock. The mage with 36% crit procs a lot during most fights giving his dps a substantial boost.
Where the lock shines is having no real downtime, mage still needs a little downtime after a long fight which the lock can lifetap and is ready to go.

i checked out your lock, and if you wanna max your dps, you could move a few points around. I have zero points in affliction, i dont cast curse of agony, I use curse of the elements. I'd move all those points into demonology and get 3 pts in demonic aegis to improve your fel armors effectiveness. Also ditch the 3 points in improved shadow bolt, as you never cast shadowbolt in a full destro build. That should get your locks dps up to par with your mages. I tweaked my click macro too, moved chaos bolt BEFORE conflagerate, cause sometimes conflag wouldnt cast due to server lag, having not registered immolate yet.