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[WoW] Mages: Spreadsheets and macros are for warlocks.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I'm interested in Arcane more for PvP now, to be honest, since it's nice being able to pop mobs for 3k+ with Arcane Blasts and all, but I lose soo much of my Frost utility. Plus I don't get my little elemental buddy!

    I think I'll try Fire next, just to see how that feels. Seems like crazy AoE potential, and AoE is most of what I do in mid-60's 5-mans.

    EDIT: For PvP, not PvE.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Fire/Frostfire is amazing for instances.

    Firestarter is like the greatest talent ever.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Hamurabi wrote: »
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    You feel like a failure, not a fool.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    forty wrote: »
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    [avatar]
    You feel like a failure, not a fool.

    Embarassing misquote fix'd.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    So I got tired of just being an obscenely-high-crit-rate glass cannon as Arcane, a serviceable cannon-on-bosses-but-mana-starved-everywhere-else as Fire, and now I'm back in my comfort zone as 0/0/57 Frost. I just got Ice Lance, and it's not as exciting as I'd envisioned -- sure, it's probably going to replace Fire Blast as the thing I use when Frostbite procs on non-bosses, but the YouTube videos made it seem like I could get several fatty crits in a row, and I'm only seeing one before Nova breaks.

    Did they nerf it at some point? I didn't pay attention to magii before, but I do remember something about it being nerfed.

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  • TomantaTomanta Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I think they made it so that a crit always breaks a frozen target, but I'm not positive on that.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    There's some dumb luck involved in whether or not it breaks, and any videos you've seen possibly include the Frost Nova glyph (I don't know if anyone uses this).

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  • DukiDuki Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    use it when fingers of frost procs. lets you do three in a row.

    but in reality just go back to arcane pew pew

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    forty wrote: »
    There's some dumb luck involved in whether or not it breaks, and any videos you've seen possibly include the Frost Nova glyph (I don't know if anyone uses this).

    It doesn't seem better than my Glyph of Eternal Water or Glyph of Mage Armor, so eh.

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Ice Lance has almost* no place in group PvE, sadly


    *like, you might use it once or twice in a full night of instances

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Ice Lance has almost* no place in group PvE, sadly


    *like, you might use it once or twice in a full night of instances

    I dunno, I might use it on mobs that aren't stun-immune when FoF procs.

    EDIT: It also has a niche in being nice to spam on Deep Freeze'd targets. :P

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  • VarethiusVarethius CymruRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Ice Lance has almost* no place in group PvE, sadly


    *like, you might use it once or twice in a full night of instances

    Very useful for blood princes, if you're on orb duty.
    But then again, so is a wand...

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Oh god, the prospect of trying to max my skill in wands at 80...

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  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    wands are possibly the easiest weapon ever to max. Just shoot a few extra shots at anything going to die.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Wand skill levels up really fast, yeah. Up until about 10 points below cap you'll skill up pretty much once per shot. It's only the last few points that take a fair amount of shots per point. Of course it's still stupid to have to do that, and it's nice that it'll be going away in Cataclysm.

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  • nervenerve Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I just started playing WoW again after like a year break and started on a whole new server. I'm making a horde mage and leveling as frost. All of the leveling builds I've seen are from BC and the talent tree has changed since then.

    I have 5/5 improved frostbolt and I'm not really sure what to get next. Any tips or a link to a mage website?

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    nerve wrote: »
    I just started playing WoW again after like a year break and started on a whole new server. I'm making a horde mage and leveling as frost. All of the leveling builds I've seen are from BC and the talent tree has changed since then.

    I have 5/5 improved frostbolt and I'm not really sure what to get next. Any tips or a link to a mage website?

    here you go, up to level 50

    http://www.wowhead.com/talent#oZZqcccofu0fdGbo

    from there, get deep freeze

    then you can put more and more points into frost or start branching to arcane

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  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I like 71 fire for leveling. Just lots of fun AOEs and Dots and interrupts.

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  • iguanacusiguanacus Desert PlanetRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The frost leveling guide on the mage forums has worked just fine for me so far. Level 70 today. Granted, I don't top the dps charts all the time on the boss, but most trash is just me tossing up blizzard and making a sandwich.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    iguanacus wrote: »
    The frost leveling guide on the mage forums has worked just fine for me so far. Level 70 today. Granted, I don't top the dps charts all the time on the boss, but most trash is just me tossing up blizzard and making a sandwich.

    How not? I consistently do at least 1k; 1500 was my highest, I think. Switching from Mage Armor to Molten for the fight + 40 seconds of Icy Veins + Double Deep Freeze (wait for Fingers of Frost to proc, hit a Deep Freeze crit, then immediately Cold Snap and hope FoF procs again) is great for bosses.

    For trash, I make sure at the beginning of every pull to Nova + Cone of Cold for an almost guaranteed crit on most of the mobs (my CoC's crit for ~2k with only 2/3 Imp. CoC), then switch to Blizzard spam. If the pull lasts long enough for CoC to come back up, that's another big burst of damage.

    Frost is amazing for every part of instancing. :P

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  • DukiDuki Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    way to ruin the beauty of frost bro

    what you should be doing is just spamming frostbolt

    over and over again

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    That's what bosses boil down to; the only times I'm not is when Brainfreeze procs (which really only means using a GCD at the end of your FB cast to add in a Fireball, then start winding up another FB) or when FoF does.

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  • JoshmviiJoshmvii Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    You know I've been wondering why I see asshole mages frost nova'ing in 5 mans again. Most of them don't even realize what is going to happen when they frost nova melee mobs right next to themselves or the healer.

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  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Any number of reasons.

    1. It's an instant cast and they fat fingered it.

    2. The tank is stoned and not doing his job.

    3. The healer is stoned and not doing his job.

    4. The mage is stoned and not doing his job.

    5. They'd rather take one hit then ten.

    6. To proc something.

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  • LorahaloLorahalo Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    It doesn't matter if the tank isn't doing his job, rooted mobs will ALWAYS attack the closest target, regardless of who has aggro.

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  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Lorahalo wrote: »
    It doesn't matter if the tank isn't doing his job, rooted mobs will ALWAYS attack the closest target, regardless of who has aggro.

    Right. But if you pull off a mob and the tank isn't paying attention or what have you would you rather take zero/one hit and have some breathing room or take 5 or 6 and crumple over? It's not rocket science. Sure, Ice block would probably be the better option but that doesn't give you any options for healing yourself or if worst comes to worst, going invisible and getting the hell out of there.

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  • LorahaloLorahalo Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I didn't think we were talking about nova when they pull aggro. I thought we were talking about dickheaded mages using nova every pull for no damn reason.

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  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The complaining tank specifically mentions what will happen to them/the healer when they nova next to them.

    If the healer and mage are constantly in traffic well then, they deserve whatever they get. But that's not likely, so this would probably only happen during some sort of aggro pull.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Hey hey now.

    I wait for the mobs to all get over to the tank, then I Nova; no sense in Nova'ing a moving pack of mobs so they're all dispersed when I go to hit 'em with my Cone of Hurt.

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  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Seriously. People have a reason for doing what they do...most of the time.

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  • juice for jesusjuice for jesus Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Ran into a nova happy mage while tanking Blackfathom the other day. He'd just run in and nova all the mobs that were wailing on me. Couldn't figure out why he was doing it, but didn't bother me too much.

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  • JoshmviiJoshmvii Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Lorahalo wrote: »
    I didn't think we were talking about nova when they pull aggro. I thought we were talking about dickheaded mages using nova every pull for no damn reason.

    You are correct. I'm talking about mages who run up to the AoE pulls and frost nova them, often times when one of the mobs is further than melee range from the tank. Rarely have I seen a mage who actually knows how frost nova works. I'm sure they just want to do it to make cone of cold crit as was mentioned before, never mind the fact they would've probably done more damage by just casting blizzard instead of running up and wasting the GCDs to cast frost nova and CoC.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    A Nova + CoC combo is about 2-3 Blizzard ticks' worth of damage; more once you fill out the CoC talent. Besides, everyone knows you don't run into the pack of mobs -- you Blink. :P

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  • JoshmviiJoshmvii Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Meh, I'm sure it's fun and all, but you still have to blink/run in, use a GCD on a frost nova, hit your CoC, then fire up blizzard and wait for it to start ticking. In my groups the stuff will be dead before you ever get any good damage going, and you'd pretty much be guaranteed to be better off just casting blizzard.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    It's lowbie 5-mans -- the other group members' AoE damage isn't exactly sky-high.

    But yes, it's just me taking the opportunity to put up lolcrits.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Joshmvii wrote: »
    Lorahalo wrote: »
    I didn't think we were talking about nova when they pull aggro. I thought we were talking about dickheaded mages using nova every pull for no damn reason.

    You are correct. I'm talking about mages who run up to the AoE pulls and frost nova them, often times when one of the mobs is further than melee range from the tank. Rarely have I seen a mage who actually knows how frost nova works. I'm sure they just want to do it to make cone of cold crit as was mentioned before, never mind the fact they would've probably done more damage by just casting blizzard instead of running up and wasting the GCDs to cast frost nova and CoC.
    Where are you seeing frost spec mages? Because I never see any.

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  • JoshmviiJoshmvii Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I wouldn't call it frequent, but I get them in random heroics. I just assumed since they made the spec less than awful for 5 mans and stuff people were having fun with it again, and that's when I noticed people casting frost nova. I was like wtf are these mages doing, lol.

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  • NobodyNobody Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The last time I used FN on my mage was during the Brann event in HoS.

    The last time I saw FN used on another mage was during the Tunnel event in PoS. He was ahead of the healer, and the tank had control over all but maybe one or two of the little skeletons. Guess what happened to the healer?

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  • JoshmviiJoshmvii Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I wish players had the ability to use interrupts in their own party members, so when a mage did some shit like that I could start locking him out of his frost school as often as possible. :P

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The mage spec representation in my random heroics is just like it is in raids: 80% ezmoad arcane, 20% some sort of fire spec.

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