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Frost mages arent THAT bad in raids/PVE
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nickseng
Arcane actually does pretty good AOE damage, and it can recover it's mana every 2 minutes.
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Achloryn
so your complaining that a single target dps speccd mage is going oom on aoe mobs... well if ur worried about that go arcane put on mage armour and blizzard away, sure it wont do the most aoe dmg but u will not go oom either,
on boss fights the aoe dmg is not going to defeat the boss, single target dps will.
i would much rather be able to smash the boss harder than everyone else and do a consistent (all be it not the highest) aoe dmg whenever required, a worthy sacrifice, as thats whats more important.
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any halfway decent raid leader would give you a few seconds to drink/mana up before a boss pull anyway, so it really shouldn't matter much if you go oom on every 2nd or 3rd trash pull.
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OscarDivine
I seem to recall pre-WotLK several blue posts making claims that Mages would be the strongest AOE class in the game... I somehow don't think this has fully come to fruition.
Rogues spamming Fan of Knives (FoK you!)
Hunters spamming Multishots and Volley
DK's dropping Death and Decay
Warlocks Seeding everything left and right...
How did we end up on the back burner... again?
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OscarDivine
Doesn't make it any less lame. Glad to be jack of all trades master of none. ;-)
Though we do have an edge on single target DPS over many other classes.
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OscarDivine
Mages are still not on top of the theoretical damage meter regardless of spec. So we're still not a master of single target DPS either.
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OscarDivine
only thing holding back my DPS at this point is my gear as far as I'm concerned. ;-) I'm not worried about my own damage.
Each raid has a different synergy. I don't mean this in any way insulting to you either Dread but your mages might be doing well, but your other DPS might just not be meeting the same standard of delivery that your mages are.
I have a rogue in my guild who tops our meters every time doesn't mean that's the pinnacle of DPS in reality. our other DPS is just lacking.
Theoretical numbers are far more reliable in my opinion because they are based on perfect player performance. Maybe there is just more slack for mages to make closer to theoretical numbers with mistakes than other classes? ;-) Who knows...
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