Quote Originally Posted by Mercbeast View Post
You don't really gain anything from arcane in terms of arcane effectiveness. A few minor things, but you build into those anyways.

This is the build I will run at 42. https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-c...-0535020010005

This is what I will run at 45. https://classic.wowhead.com/talent-c...53502001000503

With POM, you have a, I can pull well once every 3 minutes build, and if that's what you're doing, your XP/HR is going to be tanked into the ground. Peregrine showed the way, I'm not sure if he ran a shatter build, I believe he did, but he showed that the efficient way to level in your 20's-30's-40's was to just do 6-8 mobs at a time and AE them down.

I'd be absolutely shocked if going POM first, was more efficient than going shatter first, for this kind of aoe grinding.
Well since late 20s and especially now at 38 and being in SM cathedral i can easily pull 6-8 as long as they are my level or lower aka yellow or green wirh arcane and PoM and still have mana to spare...with shatter build i was always hungry for mana and I only used rank 1 nova and honestly was annoying to spam nova everytime targets werent ftozen to trigger crits. Im guessing if you dont mind that it might be better?