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Enoji
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Duskwood&cn=Topod
When I leveled up as frost I thought everything was fun and great. Well I read that Arcane is the great choice for raiding. So I thought I would give arcane a shot so I would have a better understanding of its mechanics. I'm 50..with one damaging Arcane Spell. Was this an ignorant move on my end..or maybe I'm missing something along the bigger picture?
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Meggie
Frost is so overpowered at level 36 you can solo RDF. And you will do 80% damage in groups unless there's another frost mage.
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Cross88
Frost is so overpowered at level 36 you can solo RDF. And you will do 80% damage in groups unless there's another frost mage.
True that. Points in Improved Blizzard make it by far the best AoE spell at low levels.
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MissSeekerz
Simply put, yes. You cannot assume a raiding spec for DPS is going to offer solo/survivability traits. Frost is a great spec for solo/questing, and if you can afford to dual spec, start getting familiar with Arcane at level 64 once you have access to Arcane Blast. I'd suggest using Frost to quest and switching to Arcane when running dungeons. You may end up choosing to run as Frost on dungeons because it will offer better damage initially, but at some point Arcane will start to pass up Frost on DPS charts, and once it does, you'll probably never look back.
Still, stick with Frost for solo unless you're a veteran who craves the challenge of solo'ing with Fire/Arcane.
I'm currently level 65 arcane/frost mage. I found that I did more damage in arcane than frost in dungeons, depending on if you are specced right and know your rotation. The rotations pretty simple, three - four arcane blasts until arcane missiles proc, then repeat. Its not guaranteed that you will proc though, so if you don't get it, just hit a frostbolt ( or arcane barrage) and start over. You're correct though, leveling as frost is best because you have an amazing ability to survive using frost nova/ice barrier.
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