Mage Talents

[Tech]

ok, as you all know im a firemage on LB, but ive seen some of them arcane talents :shock: they are pretty nice. which ones do i want from arcane talents, because as it seems im pretty much want to clear out my fire tree?
i heard 31/20 arcane/fire?
why would i want more into my arcane?

[babyseal]

I heard Fire/rest arcane.
Those should be the only mages able to rock me.

[Haplo]

18 arcane/33 frost. You become a PVP machine at end game. Just long enough to get the instant Arcane Explosion and Improved Arcane Explosion :)

A-splode.

[Erad]

31 arcane/20 fire if you want pure single shot damage.

[Tech]

ok but im going to raid soon, would i want to go with frost mage??? i mean im the biggest dealer of dmg, but i die so easily. is frost the way to go on raids, or would i like to stick to fire? im currently 39 so when i hit 40 im going to start to raid a little. i think fire will be fine for awhile, but when im 60 what should i do? or what is the best.

[blue]

our mage from clan had specified this as his build of choice. he has re-tallented alot... hes up to 50+g on a a re-spec now.

again, i did not use a guide but I wound up with what most people have. I am at work now so i will try and do this by memory.
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Arcane 31/50

Improved Arcane missle 5/5 (Arcane Missle wont have reduced time if I am hit)

Arcane Concentration 5/5 (Clearcast = 10% chance)

Evocation 1/1 (Regen mana, alot of it)

Improved Arcane Explosion 5/5 (Cast AE on the move, its about 1 cast per second)

Improved Mana Shield 2/2 (Absorb 75% more dmg, im at 998, needed in pvp only)

Improved Counterspell 2/2 (silence for 4 secs)

Presence of Mind 1/1 (instant cast)

Arcane Meditation 3/5 (regen 9% mana while casting, its about 8 mana a tick for me)

Arcane Mind 2/5 (Extra 4% mana, its 200 for me)

Arcane Instability 3/3 (all spells have +3% crit chance)

Arcane Power 1/1 (for 15secs gain 35% dmg, for me its like adding 300 dps or somethin)

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Fire 20/50

Improved Fireball 5/5 (reduce casting time by .5sec)

Impact 5/5 (10% chance to stun)

Ignite 5/5 (crit deals 40% dmg over 4secs, pyro blast crit its like adding an extra 600)

Pyroblast 1/1 (Big fireball, sucks without presence of mind)

Flame Throwing 2/2 (this is good for soloing, and uber in pvp, makes my range 41yds(hunter style))

Burning soul 2/3 (50% to have time increased when hit while casting, you need this, its essential)

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thats the stuff

[Tech]

so no fireblast? :(

[blue]

guess not. lots of high end mobs have fire resistance. im guessing thats why he went majority into arcane. im building my mage this way to start. we'll see where she ends up.

[Tech]

ahh i never thought of that. i guess ill have to go arcane and maybe frost :( that is pretty gay dont you think...

[blue]

going to frost is pretty popular at high ends.

its crown control and very important in instances.
as a warlock doing UBRS (upper black rock spire) my job was:

A) Healtstones to everyone (1200hp instant heal not on potion timer)
B) Soulstone the priest (insta res @ his becon when he dies)
C) Every dragon gets curse of elements (75 reduction in fire/frost resistance)
D) Have the imp out for a bonus of 520 hp.

So, im actually pretty important. dont think warlocks are useless!

[Tech]

i know, but when we raid i wanna be like, thats a badass mage :)

1) Fire/Arcane (33 Fire, 18 Arcane) or (30 Fire, 21 Arcane) <---me right now
2) Arcane/Fire (31 Arcane, 20 Fire) <--- me in a day
3) Frost/Arcane (33 Frost, 18 Arcane) <--- me when im 50ish
4) Arcane/Frost (31 Arcane, 20 Frost)

[kael]

I am going to try frost when I collect alittle more money to be able to do my talents all over again. But I really like fire and my talent set. Ill post it up soon. All I gotta say, evocation as a mage is awesome. Basically in 8 seconds all my mana is regenerated in a fight. One of the best talents I picked so far. And I might go for blastwave in fire which is gonna be sick.

[Tech]

i have blastwave 192 dmg level 1 and 6 sec daze. the cooldown is a bit long tho i think 45 sec

[blue]

from waht i understand... do NOT spec frost till you are at least level 40.

the spells are underpowered <40.

[Erad]

Pftt coldmeat is a biased fire mage =P Basically it goes like this Firemage owns casters & sometimes melee. Ice mage owns all melee but loses to caster classes.

[kael]

Erad you are definitely correct. But a frost can win, but has to be very good and know the strategy in how to fight the various speced casters. Once I get my enchant up to 250, im going to drop some money to relearn my talents. I want to have enough to try several things.

[blue]

gotta say. me and erad pwn it up. im a fire power fire mage... he's a ice mage...

erad rounds em up, then nova's

i flamestrike, he blizzards,
I nova
i re-flame.
they all die.

:)

repeat. rinse.
insta 500xp.

[kael]

what level are you 2?

[Tech]

kael wtf is up with LB?

[Tech]

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/serverstatus/ :/

[NewBreed]

All of the servers are down for maintanence

[NewBreed]

you and your fast replies to yourself

edit: Ok I just replied to myself

[SkifF]

It's tuesday, the servers are always down Tuesday from 9am - 12pm EST
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-status&t=113&p=1&tmp=1#post113

[blue]

my mage is level 28
erad is the same i believe.

my char:
http://www.wowrankings.com/viewb.htm?name=Balue&s_id=43

[blue]

omfg. i just looked at that... why oh why hasnt it been updated!!! lol

[SkifF]

lol the guild page hasn't been updated in 18 days

[blue]

yeah...
somethign is wrong.
i run it daily....

:-/
will check into it.

http://www.wowrankings.com/viewb.htm?name=Blue&s_id=43
this one is updating...
:-/