[:1]Hi there, first off, ill make this simple. Im really trying to get good Dps, and trying my best in heroics and such, and I love the frost tree. I really dont enjoy fire or arcane. Secondly, dont pay attention to my talents, Im redoing them atm and im using the cookie cutter spec in the forum sticky for raiding mages. Also, I know im wearing some spirit gear and such, but im still trying to reach hit cap.
Question 1: How is my reforging, i've reforged most of my items into hit rating because I know I need it maxed.
2. My glyphs, I know theres something wrong with them, but I got really overwhelmed looking at all the glyph choices in the forum stickies and such, so some tips there would be welcome.
3. DPS- At the gear im in now, doing the correct rotation (God I hope I am) in your opinion's what should I be pulling? Cause im going to be putting out there, and maybe im a bad mage, but I was pulling barely 6k on a boss training dummy. And barely 7k on an 87 training dummy.
I really appreciate you looking at my thread, and if any tips could be given to me personally, I just got really overwhelmed looking at the forum sticky. I do thank you again.
First off, frost is highly inaccurate on training dummies because you can't use deep freeze's damage portion on them (they are stunnable/freezable). In boss fights DF usually makes up about 20-25% of your damage, so that's a big chunk you're missing out just hitting dummies.
Also, if you're only going to be doing heroics for the near future, don't stress about getting 17% hit cap. 6% is enough to never miss in heroics, and save any +hit pieces you get to swap in when you're ready to raid. In the meantime, focus on getting as much crit as you can; mastery and haste are about equal to each other, but both are lower than crit.
As for glyphs, you'll want DF, FFB, and frostbolt, or if you're ok with mana and can stay in molten for entire fights, glyph it for the extra 2% crit.
I thank you for the help. I've done my spec, and i've updated my Glyphs, and i've read alot on the stickies too as much as they confused me. and I managed to, on a training dummy end up getting a top of 7.5k On them. and I see they are inaccurate as you say. Im really trying to just get geared up in heroics then attempt to try and take on a raid, but most likely pugging it. If I can. :) Thank you.
I'm no where near an expert but I've been raiding frost this expansion as I just haven't enjoyed fire much.
As it's already been said, when gearing in Heroics I tried to evaluate items based on the following priorities:
Int
SpellPower
Hit (To cap)
Crit (To soft cap, which you'll never reach in Heroic gear)
Mastery
Haste
Try not to reforge crit away. Either Mastery or Haste (spirit first if you get stuck with some) are much better to reforge to Hit.
My rotation on bosses:
MI+Pot+IV
FFO
Freeze
DF
Cold Snap
DF
FFO
FrB until FoF Proc
FFB w/ Brain Freeze and FoF
IL w/ 2 stacks of FoF
I typically don't use IL if I only have 1 FoF charge. I'll bank it and wait for a BF-FFB. If I get 2 FoF charges I'll burn one with a IL unless DF is coming off CD soon and Freeze is on CD.
Not sure if your talents/glyphs have updated on Armory since your post but you should have:
Primary:
FFB
DF
FrB
Major:
Your choice, I use
Evocation (comes in super handy to heal yourself)
Icy Veins
Ice Barrier
Minor:
Conjouring
rest are your choice
I've seen a few specs floating around but you want to make sure you use the one that specs into Ignite.
GL, I really hope blizzard doesn't kill off Frost Raiding like they are planning to do in 4.0.6. every day I check patch notes hoping for a small buff to frost to keep it in the theoretical ball park as fire.
Thanks for the tips even though i just started be a mage these realy help me pick a spec
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