Arcane Brilliance: Mage's guide to patch 4.2

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6-18-2011 @ 8:20PM

Pyromelter said...

According to state of dps, fire and arcane are within 1% of each other, which is basically a negligible difference (meaning you can play whichever you are better at/enjoy more).

As far as mobility, i'm with the other guy, arcane has a short cooldown spell that hits like a slightly undercooked noodle, and presence of mind on a medium cooldown. Otherwise you're pretty much out of luck, although I like that as arcane, it really forces you to learn how to stand still and cast in the context of a lot of movement. That's the challenge of arcane more than anything. With fire, you have a dot, an instant cast, a proc instant, and a channeled spell you can spam on the run.

tl;dr - pretty much everything you assumed as fact is wrong, and the rest of the mages are kind of sitting here reading your comment going "wut?"

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