Post by dcsn
Ok, I need help.
I am an old school wow player.
Played as holy priest at Classic, shadow priest at BC, elemental shaman/mage at LK.
Stopped playing at LK as mage and came back in MoP as mage.
I used to be arcane/fire mage at LK.
Nowadays all specs are viable.
I like arcane more, but I am playing as frost by my guild's request.
Looks like I am missing something because mages with same gear with me, in average, are doing much more damage than me.
I am not sure if there is a problem with my talents or my rotation or my cd usage or dot/buffs up time or my behavior in the fights.
I am here to ask to anyone who is willing to help, to check my gear, check my data from warcraftlog and give me any feedback at all to help me improve.
My armory link is:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/azralon/Calyl/advancedMy guilds data in warcraft logs is:
http://www.warcraftlogs.com/guilds/6863/ there is few logs from this week bosses we fought.
Thanks!
Post by Zakkhar
1. I dont understand why you arent going for the INT socket bonuses. Yes, haste is decent stat but only because you get it two times more. You have plenty of double/tripple red sockets with 120/180 INT bonus filled with haste gems. If you gemmed with INT/haste hybrids you would get 320 less haste, but 280 more INT (80+80+120). Its min maxing and shouldnt affect your gameplay as much but still.
2. As for the logs. Honestly you should be able to get all the information you need just by comparing yourself to frost mages that did better. Out the top of my head:
-low Living Bomb uptime (the other mages have it low as well, but yours is the lowest)
-no multidot on multidot friendly fights
-using flamestrike as an aoe spell (frozen orb ice lance spam > arcane explosion spam > blizzard >>> flamestrike). Also adds can be frozen usually (by pet) for some additional FoF procs. You may also want to leave the aoeing to classes/specs better suited for that and stick with your strenghts because arcane explosion spam is below average already.
-no timing of cds (you dont seem to try to fit your cds to the timers).
Make sure your UI is properly customised. You have clear vision of the battlefield, available skills, timers on cds, current procs, debuff timers etc. I recommend weakauras, any castbar (i use quartz), msbt to filter/compress combat text and tidy plates.
Get some mouseover macros (for living bomb) with tidy plates and proper tracking its easy peasy.
Mine is pretty generic:
#showtooltip living bomb
/use
Practice alter time usage, you can make some macros too.
Ice lance macro very useful for frozen orb +ice lance spam situations:
#showtooltip ice lance
/targetenemy
/cast ice lance
I've got some other stuff in it but i cleared it out.
Useful link:
http://www.icy-veins.com/frost-mage-wow-pve-dps-guideMainly the stats and rotation sections.