(Written by Karch) (Write for us!) Well, patch 3.2 is here, and all mages should be familiar with the significant changes that have been made. Depending on what you believe, Arcane now theorycrafts equal or better than deep fire, and you’ll be seeing a whole lot more arcane mages in raid groups. As evidenced by [...]
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(Written by Karch) (Write for us!) For mages looking to improve their DPS, there are 3 basic questions you should ask: 1) Are you spec’d right? 2) Are you geared/gemmed/enchanted right? 3) Are you using the right rotation? Today we’re dealing with the first of those questions. While there are a handful of proper PvE [...]
(Written by Karch) (Write for us!) Back before the last patch, when all we had to run were Naxx, Maly, and OS, gearing questions for mages were a lot simpler. Regardless of spec, the Tier-7 4-piece set bonus was powerful enough to overcome any minor stat differences between tier gear and non-tier gear. Basically, every [...]
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How Much Hit Rating Should You Stack? (Written by Karch) (Write for us!) One of the trickiest things for new raiders to understand is just how much hit rating to run with. While not a “sexy” stat like, say, critical strike or haste rating are, hit rating has a huge impact on your raid DPS. [...]
I have a Death Knight alt (doesn’t everyone?) that I’ve been working on gearing up, and I’ve been surprised how easy it was to get an initial set of gear. My Death Knight is a tank, and within 3 hours of hitting 80 I was defense-capped with over 26k unbuffed HP without ever setting foot [...]
The following article is a WoW Confidential readers guest submission, I’d like to thank Karch for this fantastic guide on PvE raiding for Mages, you can visit his new blog at http://magekarch.wordpress.com/ which is a site devoted to mage PvE discussion. The two guides below are designed to help mages who are just getting into raiding, [...]
Watch more video games and play free games at WeGame. My main is an undead mage and I wanted to experiment with using videos as a medium to present information to you readers. This video shows my current build I use for leveling from 66 – 80, it is designed for maximum dps against one [...]
