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[Mystra]

Character Name: Mystra
Class/Level: Arc Mage 80
Armory Link: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-shee ... &cn=Mystra
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A Short Life Story:
I joined arcane council over 4 years ago by Xara but recently the new structure smaks too much like a boys club so I am looking for new guild. I dont mind being in a raid guild, but please dont tell me you rank members by gear score and achievments or that you have 4 guild ranks just for 80th level toons. Otherwise I usually run solo though will help guildies if they need it. Happy to raid (very happy) and dont ususally like to admit defeat so have been known to stop only when its called by others. My dk died 12 times in pit of sauron through new tanks, no one willing to listen but was too stuborn to quit. Finally finished and even thought didnt get item was after (used to that too) repaired, shruged and went into another random H. Easy going, it's a game mentality but sometimes may get over exited about things or take them a little too seriously (well it may be a game but it is an alternate reality).

Alts:
Ghaunaduar - 80 death knight gs 5,600 (unholy) DPS
Shanara - 50 Night Elf Hunter (beastmaster)
Agadora - 52 Human Palidan Tank (protection)
Ariadnne - 50 Priest Healer
Mieliki - 33 Druid Healer
Neytiry - 28 Draeni Warrior


Raiding:
Raiding Spec: Arcane
Raiding Gear summary + upgrade intentions: 5.2k gs refer to link for equipment best gear is sanctified bloodmage shoulder with all epic gemmed and enchanted items on both 80's.
Raiding Experience: DK northrend dungeon master and hero. Have first 6 bosses in 1cc25,call of teh crusader 10
Last Raid Boss Kill: mage was noth the plaguebringer

My History:
Current Guild: Arcane council for over 4 years
Reason for leaving current guild: they decided achievments and GS determine guild rank
Previous guilds: none

The People I know: Xara
References from Fey Mercurial: Xara
References from outside Fey Mercurial:

The Random Space:
Thoughts & Feelings about the Guild Charter : it looks a lot like Arcane council when i first joined so happy with it.

[walkingspell]

Just a few things.

Your hit rating is rather high, your at 18% flat rate, add your talents plus raid buffs, you'd easily be over 20%, the cap for mages is 17% so aim just below that and you'll be fine.

Your gemming confuses me, you should be sticking with Sp/Haste, Sp and Sp/Spirit. Your meta is useless since arcane mages generate pathetic amounts of threat, also we have all the wipe-threat abilities, go for a 3% crit damage meta, and stick to gems i mentioned.

Your talents are a bit out of order, get rid of your Arcane Focus, you have enough hit as it is, where are your frost talents? Icy Veins is in an arcane mages rotation. Imp fireblast=useless, you shouldnt be using it as an arcane mage. Arcane Fortitude is a pvp talent, looks to me you've started a PvP build but havent finished. Check some sites for tips on Talent Tree building, read the forums etc. Get an idea of where to put your points.

Your glyphs are PvP glyphs, except for Molten armour. The glyphs to have are Molten Armour, Arcane Blast and Arcane Missiles.

Lastly, what would you say your rotation is, be specific, give me a different situation where it would suddenly change.

[Mystra]

I actually have arcane blast glyph, I use evocation as it restores health as well as mana which has saved me on a number of occasions in raids and dungeons (as well as solo). I dont do much pvp, never been very good at it.

As to Icy veins, I cant see the point in wasting 10 talent points to get a 20% (130) haste increase with a 3 minute cooldown when I have a trinket that inceases haste 512 for the same period but only a 2 minute cooldown. So far I have never needed the reduction in knockback given by icy veins seriously if I needed it means i am being hit at which point I would be using invibility or ice block if not running towards teh tank, hence the 2% reduced agro gem. I found before it there were times i drew agro off the tank with aoe's.

I usually against bosses or solo targets start with 4x arcane blast, arcane barrage, fireblast (and due to the improved fireblast 2 sec cooldown reduction) then arcane barrage. rinse and repeat. During this if missile barrage procs adding in arcane missile.

Against mobs or bosses that have addons I generally use blizzard but have also used flame strike if mobs are too resistant or immune to frost. when numbers reduce I will revert to solo attacks.

Grand Magus Telestra is a good example of rotation ad libs.. due to her levitation attack it is impossible to use spells with cast times. Instead I use arcane barrage and during the cooldown Fireblast followed by arcane barrage. I then return to normal rotation though depending on situation I can adjust the rotation as needed.

[Faira]

I actually have arcane blast glyph, I use evocation as it restores health as well as mana which has saved me on a number of occasions in raids and dungeons (as well as solo). I dont do much pvp, never been very good at it.

In a good raiding or 5 man environment you'll find that you won't have to worry to much about you hp's except the occasional warlock healthstone.

As to Icy veins, I cant see the point in wasting 10 talent points to get a 20% (130) haste increase with a 3 minute cooldown when I have a trinket that inceases haste 512 for the same period but only a 2 minute cooldown. So far I have never needed the reduction in knockback given by icy veins seriously if I needed it means i am being hit at which point I would be using invibility or ice block if not running towards teh tank, hence the 2% reduced agro gem. I found before it there were times i drew agro off the tank with aoe's.

Over the course of a long fight tanks will be getting threat boosts from rogues and hunters as needed, so threat isn't too much an issue. As far as icey veins go, over the course of a 5 minute fight you would get two uses of the ability and suprisingly if you time it right with heroism and either a trinket on use or proc you would find it's a significant damage increase.

Some of the things we ask of applicants is that they be open to learning and possibly changing how they have done things. We have knowledgeable players who can help tweak talents, gems, glyphs, rotations if given the chance. We want people to have fun, but we also want people who want to be good raiders.

We have 2 raid ranks currently along with a couple different non-raiding type ranks depending on how a person joins us. We also don't use GS for anything guild related.

[Faira]

Just a few things.

Your hit rating is rather high, your at 18% flat rate, add your talents plus raid buffs, you'd easily be over 20%, the cap for mages is 17% so aim just below that and you'll be fine.

Your gemming confuses me, you should be sticking with Sp/Haste, Sp and Sp/Spirit. Your meta is useless since arcane mages generate pathetic amounts of threat, also we have all the wipe-threat abilities, go for a 3% crit damage meta, and stick to gems i mentioned.

Your talents are a bit out of order, get rid of your Arcane Focus, you have enough hit as it is, where are your frost talents? Icy Veins is in an arcane mages rotation. Imp fireblast=useless, you shouldnt be using it as an arcane mage. Arcane Fortitude is a pvp talent, looks to me you've started a PvP build but havent finished. Check some sites for tips on Talent Tree building, read the forums etc. Get an idea of where to put your points.

Your glyphs are PvP glyphs, except for Molten armour. The glyphs to have are Molten Armour, Arcane Blast and Arcane Missiles.

Lastly, what would you say your rotation is, be specific, give me a different situation where it would suddenly change.

Some of the hit issues maybe not due to gear choices but lack there of. Not everyone has the luck or ability to farm up anything they need; and also with gs being the way pugs put together raids a higher ilevel trinket thats not as good as a lower ilevel one will give you a better chance at a raid spot.

[Mystra]

[quote] Over the course of a long fight tanks will be getting threat boosts from rogues and hunters as needed, so threat isn't too much an issue. As far as icey veins go, over the course of a 5 minute fight you would get two uses of the ability and suprisingly if you time it right with heroism and either a trinket on use or proc you would find it's a significant damage increase.[quote]

Cooldown on icyveins is 3 minutes, I actually had it in a previous spec but dropped it. This spec works better for me than the one I had with iceyveins and I used our guild class leader and IMBA to sort out gems / enchants and talents.

I am open to improvement but I will also compare it to my play style as you know what works well for one may not work at all for another. My DK for instance had a complete makeover talent, equipment and spells through guild class leader and imba, so I do not have a problem going with advice as long as it result in an improvement. Have been the icy veins path and it failed to result in an improvement while the spec I have at the moment was a marked improvement.

but I am always open to suggestions and advice.

[walkingspell]

I am open to improvement but I will also compare it to my play style as you know what works well for one may not work at all for another. My DK for instance had a complete makeover talent, equipment and spells through guild class leader and imba, so I do not have a problem going with advice as long as it result in an improvement. Have been the icy veins path and it failed to result in an improvement while the spec I have at the moment was a marked improvement.

but I am always open to suggestions and advice.

If this seems to suit you then ok, but if you do make it in id like to see what the outcome is since your competing with mages that can pull over 10k dps.

As faira said, your health shouldnt be an issue to you. Thats why we have healers, icy veins generally considered is a must in raiding specs.

[Mystra]

I have pulled over 10K dps though only through crits its been up to 15k, I would seriously consider and try anything that would improve it including going back to icy veins if it included a whole overview and revamp and actually worked.

Would be more than happy to give it a go seeing that a higher dps and more effective toon would be the end result.

[Indridcold]

Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.

How very true... But who said it? Sayings of the Northmen?

[Mystra]

I've used it for that long I cant remember where from.
I think it was 13th warrior but cant be sure.

[walkingspell]

Ok well good luck