Arcane Brilliance: Which mage spec should you be raiding with?

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2-22-2011 @ 12:47PM

MichaelBerean said...

Fire and Arcane are both fun. I felt like Arcane was a lot better for leveling and regular 5 mans. There are certain fights (heroic Ozruk, add fights) where fire is much better even at low gear levels. But overall it seems that until you are raid-ready arcane consistently does better damage than fire.

My question is about how much crit do you need for fire to match arcane's damage in a raid. I have had several guildies experiment with both arcane and fire. While all of them did better with arcane at minimal gear levels they are split more reasonably when wowheroes and gearscore indicate they out-gear the raid encounter.

For my own planning on my mage alt I'd like to know where the breakpoint is (if there is one).

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