Warrior/Priest/3 Mages PvE team?

[Greythan]

AB x 4, no?

[Ualaa]

The mage macro I've seen the most is:

/stopmacro [channeling]
/use 13
/use 14
/use Gem (whatever the top mana gem is)
/use Presence of Mind
/use Focus Magic
/use Icy Veins
/castsequence reset=combat Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Missiles



You could try this as a click macro.
Something like:

/stopmacro [channeling]
/use 13
/use 14
/use Gem (whatever the top mana gem is)
/use Presence of Mind
/use Focus Magic
/use Icy Veins
/castsequence reset=combat ,,,,,,,Arcane Missiles
/use Arcane Blast

Then tweak the commas for 4x Arcane Blast, prior to the Arcane Missiles.

[Fuzzyboy]

The mage macro I've seen the most is:

/stopmacro [channeling]
/use 13
/use 14
/use Gem (whatever the top mana gem is)
/use Presence of Mind
/use Focus Magic
/use Icy Veins
/castsequence reset=combat Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Missiles

I have cooldowns on a seperate macro, but I rarely use PoM since Arcane Power will trigger a CD on PoM. Anyway, the castsequence works well, but for heroic bosses theres actually no need for it, since spamming arcane blast will yield much better DPS for the short duration fights that heroic bosses are. Again, it's not really needed since the only remotely difficult heroic fights when you have good gear, are about crowd control and not dps races (AB x 4 + AM will put you around 7-8k dps in good gear - even more if you have spell damage debuff, AB spam will put you on 8-13k depending on RNG). However until you reach that point, AB spam will probably enable you to brute-force some encounters that usually requires some gear (quick demise, watch him die etc.).

[Fuzzyboy]

Oh btw, about the warrior versus other tanks. Paladin is probably the best choice for boxing, since they macro easily. You have to think/position a bit more with druid/dk/war, but nothing gamebreaking. One thing to mention though, is that your three dps are all ranged spell casters, which means the warrior only brings commanding shout to the team in terms of buffs / synergy.

A druid would bring GotW, but you can item-buff that (drums of the wild or whatever), however an unholy DK will give you spell damage taken debuff and some utility: death grip, which is great for caster pulling, water walking, which is nice for questing etc.

In terms of min/max, DK is probably the best choice - in terms of ease of play, I'd go paladin. I dont see any real good reason to go warrior though, except that you'd be a "classic" trinity group.

[agrikk]

The reason why I'd go warrior is because I have one already at 60.

I figured it would be faster to pull up a new team than to start a whole new one from scratch, and I already am running a Pally/4Shaman team, and I thought I'd mix it up.

[agrikk]

Update: Warrior/Priest/3 Mages sucks.

I have very little wipe protection and if things go south on my team, if I'm not really careful the priest dies and then I'm bummed.


This experience really makes me appreciate how easy a pally/4 shaman team really is.

[Akoko]

I think a Paladin tank would be more suitable for triple mages because of the better AoE tanking.

As for the mages' spec, I'm definitely not an authority on this, but I just couldn't get triple Arcane dps to be as high as simply going frost and triple spamming blizzard. And for single target, the Arcane was only marginally better, and the frost had additional protection which made healing easier.

Maybe I was just doing something wrong, but before I started multiboxing I was single boxing an Arcane mage all throughout burning crusade and the beginning of WoTLK raiding and had pretty excellent DPS. Maybe they're just hard to multibox because they depend a lot on mana management and rotations that aren't always the same.

[Redbeard]

Hey Akoko, if im reading your post right you have 3 frost mages at 80. Can you tell me what kind of gear you have going on and what dps you put out? Im just wondering what i have to look forward to. I think my mage is going to be frost too but I keep going back and forth between it and arcane.

Thanks.

[Akoko]

I haven't played my mages for many months. One of them already hit 80 and raided a bit in naxx, the other two are fresh 80's with only blues. I was really just starting to do heroics, so I shouldn't be giving any advice on multiboxing mages, lol. I just remember that the water elementals were making the frost mages out-DPS arcane. Maybe this is just a matter of scaling and arcane becomes more powerful at higher gear levels.