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Frost raid spec for Vezax?
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Post by
Ethiery
Ok, I currently said as 20-53-0. It's what I know, it's what I love.
Now, tonight my guild will be finishing up our 25 man starting with Vezax tonight. I've been absent a bit, and haven't been able to get hands-on for this fight. I've watched it on tank spot and youtube enough to picture his cool downs in my mind even.
Now, what alot of people are mentioning is for this fight, mages switching to frost. As the overall "loss" of DPS weighs out to more damage due to less and less need to puddle-hump.
However, I've yet to confirm this. I would like a few opinions, would a FFB off spec weigh out just fine? Or does frost REALLY excel for this fight. I've been also hearing about arc mages with Incanter's Absorbtion / Mana shield while in the puddle for great DPS increase if coupled with a disc priest who is kind enough to toss you bubbles regularly. (Not seriously looking at this.)
Also, I can't seem to find... and I use this term loosely, a good "frost" spec for raiding for obvious reasons. But there should be a "if frost was viable, this spec" kind of thing floating around.
Post by
Tractor23
right, before i post this spec im just pointing out that ive never been to ulduar as im not a major fan of hardcore raiding and as a result i dont know the boss fight so you may have to make a few minor adjustments here and there. i find that this spec is basically a frostbolt spam while using your procs whenever they pop up, personally when fingers of frost pops up i frostbolt, frostbolt + ice lance. before i respecced fire so i could get a serious VoA group i rolled with this spec and pulled off between 2.2k and 2.5k dps with about 1700 sp, 200 haste and 7% hit chance i had at the time.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#of0Vck0fZZAccckfu0czTfkt:RqG0oc
dont know wether or not youd like to remove the point in student of the mind and 1 point from arcane brilliance to put in magic absorption from the sounds of how you described the fight. improved blizzard may also be a waste if your using it for only this fight and never plan on dealing with groups of adds. arctic winds can also be replaced with points in cold as ice if you want to see more elemental action/ lower ice barrier CD. really just look at that spec and mess around with it as you see fit, hope this wall of text helped you in some way and good luck with your run tonight ^^
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Post by
Ethiery
End result.
Verax downed. =)
I pulled around 7.5k dps during the fight as frost. Though I was being very conservative on mana use.
I did notice however that I didn't "need" the saronite pools. I only jumped in two the entire fight and that was more for convience to be doing something due to a lack of black pools.
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Post by
lorgion
Don't really see why you would go frost on this for anything except when you do the achivement (... saronite smell whatever the name was again). Mana is not an issue if you know what you are doing.
FFB works fine and you'll do more dmg. But I do it as TTW/Fire both in 10 and 25 and that works just fine. You seriously just have to figure out the fight and the people around you have to do that to.
You don't have to chase shadowcrashes around, you have to know when to move and when to cast. It's not hard and doesn't require a special spec to do. I'll give you that frost might be more forgiving the first time you do it but beyond that I wouldn't bother really.
DPS is a total fake value here thou, we tried it out and noted that if you for example wand when not in shadowcrashes your dps drops like a stone but you'll do more dmg. So if you don't and just stand around you look so much better but really didn't do you job.
RDPS is not supposed to use the green saronite clouds, we reserve them for healer usage only.
Post by
Ethiery
All in good fun, but where I can get my two extra talent points for a 20-53-0 build? :)
What, you didn't complete the quest in ice crown?
No seriously, that's a typo. meant 20-51.
I wand like a mofo during that fight. I dunno what's with people's ego's not wanting to show a low "dps" ranking on recount.
Post by
Nijiax
You dont need frost spec unless you're doing hard mode for this fight.
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