Xaeminos wrote:toeshred wrote:Xaeminos wrote:Shatter is useless if you're raiding.
That being said, it's a fallacy when people say that only frost is viable in MC and BWL. A handful of fire mages with combustion and rolling ignites is unbelievable up to a point where it's OP. When we cleared Naxx pretty much all mages were forced to spec fire.
MC/BWL is fire based dungeon. Frost mage does best in it.
Naxx is frost based dungeon. Fire mage does best in it.
Common sense really.
But that's not how it works or rather, works. From what I remember the bosses in MC don't have higher fire resist than your regular boss. Sure, the trash might, but who cares about trash. But again, that was 10 years ago. My memory is a bit foggy. But I'm willing to bet that if you take a group of 5 pre-ignite nerf fire mages into MC, they'll blow away 5 frost mages. They were plain OP. Rolling ignites were legendary.
You just lost the bet. The only bosses that are not IMMUNE to fire inside MC is the Salamanders and Garr, where even the Salamanders + Garr got around 70% fire resistance. So yea, fire mages inside MC do a bit less damage than what a disco priest would do if he spammed smite in healing gear, IF the boss is not immune.
Plus we only have 8 debuff slots, which means that you can't use Fireball, Improved scorch and Ignite cause you will get guild kicked by replacing important buffs.
