Arcane Brilliance: What the MoP beta means for arcane mages

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4-01-2012 @ 5:44AM

Naryn said...

Viable in comparison to the rest of the Spec's but after 4.2 Arcane was at the very top on almost every fight barring Alysrazor which was fire at the top.

A Pure DPS should always be looking at the difference between their top spec and their desired spec as their only job is to deal as much damage as possible, if it's the difference of say 1-2k usually you have the choice, so in 4.2 Frost was viable but only in BiS gear and even then Arcane surpassed it by 3k dps in theory, much more in reality.

It's also a strange fact of the mage class that we tend to all group together whenever one of the spec's becomes the best, you don't really see it with other classes, but if say Fire gets a 5% buff and comes out 0.2% better dps you can bet that the majority of mages will swap to fire.

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