What having ridiculous amounts of Intellect means to you (as a 4.2 Mage)
It means your burn phase lasts foreeeeeever. It also means that once you’ve moved out of your 4t11 you need to make up a bit of haste. The haste soft cap for Arcane gets talked about a lot, it’s the point where your arcane blast reaches 1.0 seconds with bloodlust active.
Haste is extremely competitive until that point and then it falls off a bit. All and all arcane’s secondary stats are irrelevant in comparison to Intellect so there’s some degree of personal preference, as well as fight-to-fight preference. As a whole, both mastery and haste are extremely strong stats, but without 4T11, you should prioritize both over crit.
This was basically just a quick post to let you guys know that without 4T11 and the increased int on firelands gear you should be looking for more haste than previously. Something to keep in mind!
Good luck in Firelands.
Mage Power.
-Zythian
