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

 

25man Heroic Ragnaros Guide

Well, it’s dead, so here’s how you kill it!  Full text version below. Hello and welcome to MMOScholar’s 25man Heroic Ragnaros Guide. This guide assumes you already know the normal mode of the encounter so I’ll only cover the hardmode mechanics in this guide. In Phase 1 Magma traps now place a 45 second debuff…

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25man Heroic Majordomo Guide

Hello and welcome to MMOScholar’s 25man Heroic Majordomo Guide.  The Majordomo fight on 25 Heroic is very similar to normal. The only real difference between normal and heroic modes is a new ability called Concentration. Concentration is a stacking buff which stacks up to 100% extra damage, but goes away upon taking any damage.  To…

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Heroic Rag is DEAD

Finally the day has come… after about 20 days of exhausting attempts against the internet boss, attendance boss, and some fiery tornado guy when the first 2 weren’t kicking our ass, he died. (Yes, even top guilds struggle with attendance and internet bosses during progression).  With how incredibly demanding the fight was on raid comp,…

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Heroic Ragnaros: A Mage PoV

So we’ve been bashing our heads against the wall on Heroic Rag for a few weeks now and I thought I’d throw some of my thoughts at you guys. The fight as a whole is very challenging and has a huge amount of min/maxing for DPS which is extremely fun and overall very difficult as…

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4.2 Thus Far

Hey guys, Firelands is here and blazing right now, and I figured I’d stop by and give you my thoughts on the new content thus far. Overall, I’ve enjoyed this tier. Some stumbling blocks here and there, but nicely tuned in my opinion. Shannox: I still don’t feel Shannox is tuned properly. It’s kinda lame…

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4.2 is in Full Swing

Greetings travelers!  Stay awhile and listen! This is my second blog post, as progression is still going on, I’ll be brief.  One thing I noticed this tier was the severe impact kill videos had on some of the bosses.  Most specifically, the Majordomo Heroic encounter. Initially, very few guilds managed to take him down, but…

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4.2 Shaman Changes

Fire Nova damage has been increased by 15%. Lightning Shield and Water Shield can no longer be dispelled. Unleash Wind now deals 175% weapon damage, up from 125%. Water Shield has had its internal cooldown reduced to 3.5 seconds, once again matching other shields. The amount of mana restored when Water Shield procs has been…

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4.2 Shadow Priest Changes

Single Target Damage Increased Mind Blast damage done has been increased by 12%. Shadow Word: Death damage done has been increased by 12%. Mind Flay damage done has been increased by 12%. Multi-Target Damage Decreased Shadow Word: Pain damage done has been decreased by 12%. Devouring Plague damage done has been decreased by 12%. Vampiric…

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Hayden Hawkes Secret Gold Guide Review

Lets face it, everyone who plays WOW would love to have as much gold as Hayden does.  The simple fact is most players struggle with 3000-10,000 gold at most in their bags.  I too was one of those players a couple months ago. That was until I tried the Secret Gold Guide by Hayden Hawke….

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