So I've read the guide on fire mage here on Icy-veins and got some questions related to single target rotation. After I got mine (Warforged luckly) I actually enchanted haste (Bleeding Hollow still on wep) to sit at 20% raid buffed and gained DPS over using all mastery enchants.
Having the trinket off Council really helps. After you reach that raid buffed go for mastery.
I may actually have too much crit now that I have been looking into things.Īrmory Profile I run around 45.5% crit and have no problems. You can find it hereFor the 47.8% crit does that include self buffs? food?
There is a great guide on Altered Time about fire. If you don't have the proc you will run the risk of ruining your combust, which is where the real power of fire is. Also, lining up crystal and Combustion with your trinket is far more important than lining it up with the ring. This ensures that when you SMP procs you will have 100% crit on the crystal. If you are playing fire you need a 6/6 Sandman's Pouch and about 47.8% static crit. Remember that you'll do much better on cleave fights like assault and council than on reaver / kilrog ect.Īlso spending 10 minutes on fatboss/icy-veins guides will make you a better raider than most PuGs you'll compete with. It's super easy to get into with group finder out and you should be fine for dps as a fire mage (at 701 in pvp gear I pull about 40k ST with only 40% ish crit and low mastery) and gear pretty quick. Even then it'd be easier just to increase Ilv than to gear haste. Haste isn't very good for you but if your ilv is low enough it might be worth lowering mastery for. Until mythic gear everything but crit is irrelevant and i'd actually recommend gimping ilv for crit gear (5-10 ilv if it has decent crit) and having as much mastery as possible without hurting crit. I perform my 732 mm hunter's rotation flawlessly on most fights and still have issues competing with our mage who's still learning arcane's subtleties. Also note that in the 700-720 range arcane is nigh unbeatable in dps potential. When it comes to normal/heroic fights if you get good enough at fire you can pull raid worthy numbers (I personally despise frost and play fire on my guild's alt runs) However the fact still stands that with similar gear and effort you'll do more damage as frost/arcane. So I'll use any knowledge I gain here and from my sim to better play a fire mage. However, would stacking too much mastery give diminishing returns? I intend to stay fire from starting HM to finishing mythic HFC. I'll run some sims and see what I come up with. You can dabble into fire but you will quickly see how weak it is. I would strongly recommend playing frost at lower gear levels and arcane once you have heroic gear. Need tons of crit and mastery for it to really shine. Fire is downright awful until mythic HFC gear. I know to each his own and all that, but fire is extremely terrible until A LOT of gear. Think of haste as a stat that makes your other stats stronger. Also, your t18 4 set gives you 6% haste so it makes mastery that much better. Haste is useless for fire until you get crit. You will need to sim your character to determine when exactly you should be going for mastery over crit. However, as a fresh fire mage, crit is so much more important. Once you reach a certain amount, mastery starts being more important. Frost requires the least gear to be effective and scales the worse with better gear (falls off after heroic HFC gear).įor fire, you need crit, crit, and more crit. At lower gear levels, frost is by far the best. Once you do though it is quite strong, however for burst fights, progression fights, arcane is much better. Yeah I'll experiment but I want to get others opinions on the priority of stats for a fire mage.įire mages by far require the most gear to even be considered viable. So should I stick with that or alter it a bit for the purpose of taking my fire mage into HFC? I ask this because I feel Haste > Mastery as a method to increase DPS and bring forth a better fire mage. If fire mages are more gear dependent than frost mages, what stat priority should I have to maximize my DPS on my gear?Īccording to the Fire Mage DPS Stat Priority page, this is the current priority:
So here I am to dig to the bottom of this before I finish leveling her to 100. I read in another thread, HERE, that HFC is not really for fire mages unless you have the gear. Arcane is nearly non-existent, therefore I'm here to at least keep my mage fire. Since the day that talent trees got a revamp, I have slowly seen Frost mages become dominant in all raids including BRF. I remember the days of mages having frostfire bolt but required you to pretty much spec fire and some in frost.
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