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 April 14, 2010, 07:58:40 AM
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I switched my second spec to Fire last night, for our Lich King attempts in ICC 25 normal. Single target damage is lower than what I did with arcane, but as expected, Fire shines as soon as multiple targets or movement phases are involved. We kept wiping before or in the phase 2->3 transition, so I couldn't test how much boost fire gives afterwards, but I have high expectatons (due to Vile Spirits bombing and the Lich King going below 35% where Burnout kicks in with +12% damage). According to Kamigami Tools, Fire is up to par with Arcane in Heroic ICC, seems like Fire scales a little better with gear than Arcane does, therefore I think I'll keep raiding with Fire for the time beeing. For those trying to switch from Arcane to Fire, I wrote a quick start guide: -> Quick and Dirty Fire Guide
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April 22, 2010, 03:09:46 AM
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For the first time since respeccing, I ran ICC10 with fire, in a not-so-optimal group, and promply ran into mana problems (went OOM on Prof. Putricide just as phase 3 started, with Evocation and Gems on a >1min cooldown, and ... HAD TO WAND OMG). Fire is a mana hog compared to Arcane, especially in single-target encounters. On the Lich King fight, I get tons of mana back from Living Bomb due to Master of Elements, but on fights lacking that collateral crits, you risk running out of mana without the proper support. And the bad thing is: there's hardly anything you can do about, apart from using the Hot Streak procs less often and thus lowering your DPS. Once you're out of mana, all you can do is to wand to regenerate mana faster, or to Scorch and fish for Clearcasting procs. With Arcane, I have a very mana friendly rotation, and Evocation on a 2-min cooldown, and even if that wouldn't suffice, I can switch to a DPM-rotation anytime which lets me cast pretty much endlessly.
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