Hello there,
I play mage according to the guide here:
https://legacy-wow.com/tbc-mage-guide/
That includes Vontre’s equivalence points for gear, core fire talents, basic rotation principles etc etc ...
My GS at the moment is 3111 with following spell stats unbuffed:
Intel - 496
Spirit - 215
Spell dmg - 953
Hit - 166
Crit - 160 / 14,35% (23,35% in fire talents)
Haste - 83
mp5 - 223
Fire talents:
http://calculators.iradei.eu/talents...10000000000000
Frost talents (originally created mainly for solo farm):
http://calculators.iradei.eu/talents...13235010251551
Any guide I have read basically says that besides few specific gears and group setups Fire should perform best or shoulder to shoulder with some complex builds in raids. Definitely better than basic frost spec after some starting HC/Kara gear.
The point is ... I cannot see fire outperforming my frost build in raids (or anywhere).
I made some testing on dummy.
Approximated 5 separated measurings for all rotations that lasted until I was oom (up to 2 mins).
Buffs used: only Arcane intelect and Molten armor.
Here are the results:
Frost spec:
only Frost bolt spam - 951 dps
burst phase test (double icy+trinket+Water elemental) - 1199 dps
Fire spec:
only Fireball spam - 815 dps
5x Scorch full uptime + Fireball spam - 938 dps
burst phase test (icy veins+trinket+combustion) - 1014 dps
Since I was testing on full hp dummy there was no Molten fury taken into account but lets say that dmg will be equally split across all boss fight.
That would make my measured dps 985 for standart scorch debuff + Fireball spam rotation and about 1065 average dps when burst phase gets included below 20%.
Those fire numbers are goddamn far from being superior mage spec.
While buffed in raid I usually do about 1-1,2k dps frostbolting (trash or long boss fights) and going up to 1,4-,1,5k dps during short boss fights when utilizing dmg CDs. I didnt run many raids in my fire spec since I can see it is worse but I can tell that in fire spec I am able only to touch my frost numbers when it is a good day.
I didnt even see any other fire mage outperform me clearly and many mages around are just going Arcane.
Please, can someone tell me if there is some crucial mistake in my build or if there is something wrong with fire mages on this server?
Because from what I understand it is definitely not performing the way it is supposed to be.
Thanks a lot! :)