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Just a short post to explain why i am staying arcane mage in raids for now.

Fire mages do appr. 10% more dmg than arcane mages atm.

Reasons to stay arcane: (i feel i need to explain to my fellow raiders why i am staying a lower dps class)

1. Arcane Tactics: gives a 3% raidwide damage increase. (does not stack with a hunter talent or ret. pala talent, but we have none of those in raid team) Fire has a 5% crit increase, but we have enough boomkins who also provide that, and those do not stack.
This reason alone is enough to explain, as me doing 10% more dmg << whole raid = 7 people (10 - 3 healers) doing 3% more dmg.

2. Focus Magic - this enables me to give a healer (prefer always a holy pala, as they get mana back from crits) 3% more crit chance, which is nice for raid survivability. This talent is arcane-only.

3. Arcane scales enormously with gear, much more than fire, due to our mastery which depends on mana. (see me going oom after 9 secs?? roflmao we are the new Oomkin) So after 1-2 patches arcane will become the best mage dps spec again. Better stay in touch with the spec. Btw, if you even see an arcane mage in an heroic, please give him/her time to restore mana to 100%. (mastery scales linearly with unspent mana)

Have a nice holiday!

Ara