Comments on: BiS gear for mage – 3.3 (pre ICC HM)

By: Bailey Button Ugg Boots

Bailey Button Ugg Boots — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:37:31 +0000

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By: Xhosas

Xhosas — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:02:29 +0000

This was made right after icc was launched, fire wasn’t buffed back then. Also this gear is missing alot of hit and its pre heroic mode – so kinda outofdated

By: Clyd

Clyd — Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:52 +0000

So apprently you you forgot what is being talked about in here PRE HARD MOD E icc. now if you wana talk about what the best spec/gear is for Hard mode icc then do it in a HARD MODE Fourm. not in a Pre Hard Mode icc fourm

By: That guy.

That guy. — Sun, 09 May 2010 06:33:47 +0000

Actually, the top Mage DPS in ICC Heroics is…you guessed it, a Fire Mage. Fire Mages are not a thing of the past. You can actually boost your sustainable DPS switching to Fire and knowing a CORRECT way to prioritize your spells.

By: Kreia

Kreia — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:25:15 +0000

I know a fire mage that had the world top dps for 25man HM …

Their somewhat OP now. It’d be nice to see a Fire Spec List

By: Mika

Mika — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:01:01 +0000

Yeah true, and this gear wouldnt even be so good for a fire mage, i quess. Totally forgot to calculate raid buffs :/

By: clyd

clyd — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:20:37 +0000

hit cap is 17%. if your arcane you get 6% from talents. so you will only need to come up with 11%. add a boomkin or a shadow priest in there and thats another 3% hit so now need 8% hit. with this gear, hit talents, and the boomkin/shadow priest hit buff. you will be 39 points over hit raiting for arcane spells.

now if your fire then yes, it will leave you far from hit cap. but fire mages are a thing in the past now.

By: Mika

Mika — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:06:24 +0000

Doesn’t this leave you far from being hit capped, huh?

Correct me if im wrong.

By: Clyd

Clyd — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:38:52 +0000

would you wana have to cast 10 spells to get the full effect of a trinket (and it will only be 30 or so SP higher then ROTD (reign) ) or would you rather have a consit 125ish sp bonus with 1-2k instant dmg about every 3 spell casts? if you ask me i would rather not have to cast 10 spells to gain the full affect of the trinket. and that is why reign>spyglass

By: Synkradimus

Synkradimus — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:03:58 +0000

As of patch 3.0+

OK so I will explain how haste works. 100% (3300) haste will remove a total of 1 second from any spell. So Arcane Blast has a 2.5 second cast time. If you have 100% haste then Arcane Blasts new cast time will be 1.5 second. So the maximum haste you want as an arcane mage is 150% (4950) because 150% haste will remove 1.5 seconds off of Arcane Blast which will make the cast time exactly 1 second. The Global Cool Down (GCD) in WoW is 1.5 seconds and with at least 50% (1650) the GCD is lowered to 1 second. 1 second is the shortest that the GCD will go. So you can never cast any spell faster than 1 second.

An Arcane Mage can get 150% (4950) haste by having these buffs all at the same time.

30% Heroism/Bloodlust
20% Icy Veins
12% 2xT10 set bonus on proc
6% Netherwind Presence (Arcane Talent Points)
35% Haste rating from gear (1147)

Equals 150% haste

Now if you do the math and add all of these percentages up you might say “Hey, this only equals 103% haste.” Well thats the tricky part. Blizzard does not simply add these percentages together. Blizzard has an algebraic formula that adds the haste bonus percentages in a certain way. If you are interested in the mathematical formula, please refer to these links below.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Haste

http://www.wowwiki.com/Spell_haste

Also there is a great website that calculates all of this for you and bypasses all of the mathematical mumbo jumbo and is really easy to use. PLEASE CHECK OUT THIS SITE!

http://milamber.ch/spellhastecap.html

Well I hope this helps you guys when determining how much haste you actually need. Also if you dont have 1147 haste rating from your gear, you can always use a Potion of Speed which increases your haste rating by 500 for 15 seconds. So therefore you would only need 647 haste rating from your gear.

And to top it all off, there are many other things that will increase your haste rating either from raid buffs or some other way. So if you see that your haste rating is going above 150%, then that means you are waisting excess haste. At that point I would just not use Icy Veins durning Heroism/Bloodlust.