max int, with arc spec

by **flowison** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 1:11 pm

!!!I AM NOT SURE IF IT WAS VANILLA OR TBC!!!

many years ago i have seen a video of a mage (with green +int items) who was raiding with an arcane spec.
he had an unbelievable huge manapool.
he did just a little damage with arcane missles, but it took "hours" that he went oom.
with this manapool he did good damage.

does anyone know that video?
is this possible in vanilla?

thx cheerio

by **Syphonize** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:25 pm

I don't know about the video, but I suppose in theory an arcane spec is possible assuming your mana pool can sustain it. The problem is that AM is not very mana efficient and therefore a huge mana pool is required to sustain it. Unfortunately until the bugs with Arcane Missiles is fixed, it is not possible on this server. Hopefully they get fixed soon!

by **Ana** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 7:59 pm

Arcane Missiles are always inferior because there are no talents that significantly increase their damage output, and they scale poorly with spelldmg gear.
Mages don't need huge manapool.

by **Lazermon** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:31 pm

the spec youre thinking of is from TBC.

by **Vorfidus** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:30 am

To further the problems of an Arcane spec, AM currently takes up a debuff slot. So in raids, you can't even cast it.

by **flowison** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:26 pm

Ana wrote:Arcane Missiles are always inferior because there are no talents that significantly increase their damage output, and they scale poorly with spelldmg gear.
Mages don't need huge manapool.

the specc doesnt need +spelldmg.
only green items with +int.

Vorfidus wrote:To further the problems of an Arcane spec, AM currently takes up a debuff slot. So in raids, you can't even cast it.

what about 16 slots?

Lazermon wrote:the spec youre thinking of is from TBC.

do you know that video?

maybe I didnt say it clearly:
this mage was fully green geared, MAXED INT and had no spelldamge or other stats.

by **Lazermon** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:38 pm

Check out the arcane part in this post: http://web.archive.org/web/200809131205 ... al_thread/

by **Syphonize** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:25 am

flowison wrote:what about 16 slots?

In original classic AM stopped taking debuff slots after a point. In 1.12.1 it is not supposed to. Check out the bugtracker, it's supposed to be getting fixed.

by **Ana** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:28 pm

flowison wrote:the specc doesnt need +spelldmg.
only green items with +int.

What, I don't even

FYI, mage is a dps class. If you prioritize int over ways to increase your dps, noone is going to take you seriously. But yeah, it's "possible" in vanilla. You'll just do less dps than MT

by **flowison** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:12 pm

Ana wrote:
flowison wrote:the specc doesnt need +spelldmg.
only green items with +int.

What, I don't even

FYI, mage is a dps class. If you prioritize int over ways to increase your dps, noone is going to take you seriously. But yeah, it's "possible" in vanilla. You'll just do less dps than MT

actually i was just looking for a video where an arcane mage wears only green +int items.
and eventually it was from tbc -.-

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