https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlhL3TNFW4E&t=1m18s
Can anyone explain me why these mages in the back are shooting arcane missiles?
Can anyone explain me why these mages in the back are shooting arcane missiles?
http://www.wowprovider.com/?talent=11215875_8_8255c50010031531zi
Maybe this spec....no generate rage....almost no OOm...Arcane build is boring....but good enought :rolleyes2:
And the correct answer is:
Mages don't spec arcane missles in vanilla. They use missles at Vael, because of the fire debuff which causes pushbacks during casting. Arcane Missles is a channeled cast, which only ends earlier due to pushbacks.
Basically they could shoot frostbolts, 1 in every 5-6 seconds, or spam missles (since you have infinite mana, so mana costs don't matter) and do only the partial damage of the channeling, which still results in more overall dmg done, than spamming frostbolts. Yeah spell pushback effect is a bitch (also that's the reason why elemental shamans unfit for raiding, pushbacks reduce their dmg done by 60% at least, and there's no way to avoid that, talents only cover it pvpwise, and it was only implemented during the major revamp in late 2006.)
Not to mention the fact, that you can have 5 points Arcane Focus and have +10% hit for arcane spells. The Elemental Precision talent for 6% frost/fire hit only came in 1.11, so if the mana is of no concern, spam missles like there's no tomorrow, because of better overall damage (getting frost/fire hitcapped was impossible until ZG, and it wasn't easy even after that.)
when an AM does 1250 dmg in 5sec, a frostbolt does 900 dmg in 2.5sec, even if we include the better % of crit in AM (5 chances to proc), the dmg is still less than 2 frost.
Conclusion, these mages are retarded.
Im with Lharts on shis, they are stupid. If your arguement is to use AM cause no mana problems on Val, why would you then not just keep up both frost shield and mana shield at the same time and rotate 3 frost bolts to every one fire blast (i know resist lvls on fire blast, but the instant cast is still an increase to dps).