Is blizzard not feasible as AOE boxer vs AE?

[myrsnipe]

In school and strath, every normal pack goes down to AE spam with 3 mages in one mana bar, with 4 it must be a breeze, but I would hate to deal with some of the bosses like rattlegore without a tank

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Mana efficiency isn't all that important with 3 or 4 mages.

Isn't that entirely dependent on the instance level (re: spell hit mechanics) and mob resistances, though?

[Mercbeast]

Sure, but, most people grinding a caster group are going to avoid fighting orange/red con mobs in dungeons. That isn't efficient regardless of spell

[Spyro]

I saw a guy from my server (Golemagg EU) running 1 Priest + 4 Mages level from 42 to 52 in 2 days in Zul'Farrak (just saw him one thay and 2 days after he had put +10 levels, insane lol). He clearly farmed huge Zul'Farrak pulls with Blizzard. I wonder if he posts here, one of his mages is called "Nimkas".

I run Warrior/Priest/3 Mages and I used Blizzard a lot in Shadowfang Keep and Razorfen Kraul for the mobs that AoE silence, using a SetView() macro in my Blizzard bind to move all the cameras to the same direction.

I'm in Zul'Farrak now but I can't spend the gold to respec the mages for Blizzard (I'm saving for the mounts so I have to play with the typical Arcane Explosion), otherwise I would run the Blizzard build and farm HUGE xp by pulling big pulls with mount and then AoE them down from distance, I'm sure that's what "Nimkas" did to level so insanely fast.

[Spyro]

* ready for mouse-cursor input (yes, it can get stuck occasionally)

That happens when you mouseover on a Repeater Region when positioning the casting circle, happened to me a bunch of times before I realized what the fuck was really happening, lol.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

[edit] nevermind. Not a 5-boxer.