MMMMP AoE spec

[Mercbeast]

I'd recommend you run a shatter build on your mages IMO.

If you're using ISboxer, you're using a DPS hotkey for arcane explosion I'd guess. With a shatter build, do this.

Create a keybind without a hotkey for round robin frost nova. Create an ATG for your mages, put your mages in the ATG in the order you want them to nova. Set the hotkey to automatically round robin frost nova, tell it to not pass to the next step for say 2.5s. Go into your advanced tab and tell it to reset like .5s longer than your frost nova cooldown, so that the order resets after the first characters CD is up.

Now make your arcane explosion hotkey. Step 1, call your newly made nova hotkey, Step 2, AE on all characters. Set the hotkey to advance a step when pushed, or released. Train yourself to not spam the hotkey, be deliberate. Push the hotkey, one character will nova (so long as novas are up), then release, and everyone else will AE, getting those beautiful shatter crits.

Now, work cone of cold into this, create another frost nova round robin. Use a NEW ATG for this. Inverse the order of your mages, and actually give this one a bind. We don't want to use the same order, because, we will want to typically open with nova->flamestrike->cone of cold. However, your freeze effect on nova with a full group will most likely break before you can go flamestrike->cone of cold. So, we setup to nova rotations that work from either end of your rotation! The inverse order is used to do your two biggest hitters.

So it should look like this, Inverse Nova ATG order goes Mage4(M4),M3,M2,M1. Your normal Nova ATG order is M1,M2,M3,M4.

In action, your rotation should look like, M4Nova, All Flamestrike, M3Nova, All CoC, M1Nova, All AE, All AE, M2 Nova, All AE till cleared. At least, this is what I am doing with my mage group, and it seems to work well. Pull 2 packs on lead mage, get all mobs in front of group, and go ham. It's just a lot of crits. A LOT of crits

People like Peregrine have run a POM build, so they can POM/Arcane Power their flame strike, but I think it's better to respec into this 50+, since you get more for your mileage with shatter through your 30's and 40's.

[naitam]

Thanks for this really detailed reply, I will defiantly be giving this a go. One question though, how do I ago about reversing the order in an ATG? Cant seem to figure it out.