The Mafiascum World of Warcraft Thread

[xRECKONERx]

Jesus.

After 40+ boss kills in LFR with no drops, I've had FOUR drops this week

RNG man

[Flameaxe]

All the resto shaman gear dropped in vaults tonight...While I was playing my druid.

BUT RESTO BUFFS IN A FEW DAYS. I AM READY. ALL THE BUFFS.

[xRECKONERx]

What buffs?

[Flameaxe]

-Straight 10% throughput buff with a new passive.
-Soul of the forest haste from 50% to 75%
-Rejuv mana cost decreased by 9%
-Mushrooms are (Edit: not) totally worthless anymore.

Its a good day.

[xRECKONERx]

5.2 = MANANA!

[xRECKONERx]

at the time this was simmed, the arcane changes didn't get updated yet

[xRECKONERx]

Arcane

For Arcane Mages, Evocation now restores 40% (was 60%) of total mana over 6 seconds, and consumes all Arcane Charges. For each Arcane Charge consumed, the total amount of mana regenerated is increased by 10%, up to a maximum of 80% over 6 seconds. Evocation remains the same for Fire and Frost.
Arcane Blast's damage has been reduced by 22.2% and mana cost has been increased to 1.66667% of base mana (was 1.5%).
Arcane Missile's damage has been reduced by 22.2%.
Arcane Barrage's damage has been reduced by 13.6%.
Arcane Charges now stacks up to 4 times (was 6), increases damage by 50% (was 25%), and increases mana cost by 150% (was 75%).


Fire

Scorch is no longer a talent and is now available to all Fire Mages.


Frost

Fingers of Frost now has a 15% (was 12%) chance to activate from Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt and Frozen Orb, and a 5% (was 4%) chance to activate from Blizzard.
Glyph of Ice Lance now causes Ice Lance to deal 50% damage to 1 additional target, up from 40%.
Frostbolt now deals 32% more damage. but its debuff no longer increases subsequent Frostbolt damage.
Water Elemental

Freeze no longer does damage and only provides Fingers of Frost on a successful freeze.

so basically... idk what the new mage rotation will look like at all, and holy shit they buffed Frost which was already going to town in arena, and the top 25man guild is nixing all mages to get boomkins/locks instead

[Flameaxe]

simmed

For everyone's sake, including yourself. Stop.

[JDodge]

simmed

For everyone's sake, including yourself. Stop.

SV was competitive with BM pre-patch (slightly behind at the highest levels, slightly ahead at all levels below that) and just got buffed pretty hard (Explosive Shot is your bread-and-butter skill, especially with Lock and Load, and Black Arrow is similar) compared to BM. Those numbers are janky as fuck.

[JDodge]

so basically... idk what the new mage rotation will look like at all, and holy shit they buffed Frost which was already going to town in arena, and the top 25man guild is nixing all mages to get boomkins/locks instead

source pls

[xRECKONERx]

the PBE patch notes on Blizzard's site?

[xRECKONERx]

I suppose it's possible they could've tweaked it a bit in between the 28th & now but I don't know that it'd swing it that much

[JDodge]

so basically... idk what the new mage rotation will look like at all, and holy shit they buffed Frost which was already going to town in arena,

and the top 25man guild is nixing all mages to get boomkins/locks instead

source pls

[xRECKONERx]

Oh!

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic ... 158?page=1

Guild is Method

[Flameaxe]

Should always keep in mind that what the top guilds do isn't always telling in the way you want it to. Its a completely different raid environment to what you'll experience, and in no way telling of a class being "dead". Nixing is probably a bad word to use there too, since most of the top 10 guilds run 2/3 full clears of everything a week with alts.

Moral of the story: A class not being used for high-tier progression isn't telling of anything beyond "someone can do something better than you". 80% of that isn't dps related. Utility generally means more than dps output for world firsts, and utility is something mages have generally never had.

Moral of the moral of the story: Your panties are in a wad. Should consider untwisting

[xRECKONERx]

Meh, I understand "realm first" type guilds are different than usual raids and most things can work. I'll probably still respec Frost and give it a go

[Mert]

so basically... idk what the new mage rotation will look like at all

If I had to throw out a complete guess I'd say it's probably something like 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, oooh a proc, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1

[JDodge]

Oh!

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic ... 158?page=1

Guild is Method

i for one take everything a level 1 alt posts on the forums as absolute truth

[Flameaxe]

I do love me some general forums on patch day.

[xRECKONERx]

I haven't dared venture in there yet.

[Nexus]

So close to dinging 90 on my rogue. Could get it done after work tomorrow evening.

No idea what I'm going to do afterwards. Perhaps just level a different character. I'm not sure I'm cut out for raiding and shit.

[xRECKONERx]

Raiding isn't nearly as difficult as you'd think. I bitch a lot in this thread about OMG DPS NERFS but most guilds aren't hardcore "RAID FIRST!" raiding guilds, and as long as you're hitting some easily attainable minimum DPS mark, the only hurdle is learning the fights. Most of which come down to: DPS the boss, kill the adds, and don't stand in shit. Anything more complicated is usually not on the DPS to figure out, but on the tanks to manage aggro for the fights.

[Flameaxe]

LFR is really silly. Worth giving a try for sure.

[Mert]

Raiding can be hell of fun with the right group of people. You do get the occasional "OMG U SUCK" types of course but if you find a guild with people at roughly your level of ability, commitment, etc then it can be one of the most fun co-op experiences in gaming in my opinion. There's honestly nothing quite like the feeling of finally beating something which seemed near-impossible for weeks and weeks - it's not that you've personally achieved it, it's that it's come from the group working together as a whole.

I've been in both super casual social guilds who only raid occasionally and the properly hardcore progression world top 50 type guilds and they've both been fun for as long as I've been in the same mindset as the other members. I'd certainly recommend giving it a try but I'd also say take your time thinking about what you personally would want to put into it and researching guilds which offer something similar to that. WoW has a lot of faults, for sure, but the feeling of camaraderie you get from raiding is completely unparalleled - I'd recommend that anyone enjoying the game give it a try at least once.

Dammit, I seem to be convincing myself to go back even though I don't have the time or the money

[tanstalas]

Lol. Jab, as healer costs more mana now then spinning crane kick. At 85 anyhow.. Fucking LOL