09-06-2005, 11:04 PM
I'm working on building an Arcane Mage. Arcane Missiles for single targets with untalented Fire Blast and Cone of Cold and Arcane Explosion for AoE with Frost Nova
My motivation is
- Curse of Shadows. +75% damage when grouping with Warlocks in the mid to late game. Yummy!
- Arcane Subtlety. 40% threat reduction. With gear I could get this even higher. Arcanist set for instance reduces threat 15%. 55% reduction would be lovely - almost wish I'd gone Alliance so a Paladin could push it even lower. I wonder if it's possible to get so low you can spam IAE without the monsters minding :blink:
- PvP. In their respective ways both Arcane spells are very nice for pvp. Arcane Missiles is much more reliable than spells people can go out of range against. And IAE is imba :)
- Arcane Focus. The way resists work in WoW is somewhat counter-intuitive. Mainly they act to reduce damage and only occasionally to prevent it. Now I think people tend to assess resistance reduction on mobs and players by how often they see the word "resist" appear which is only a small part of the story.
Has anyone tried such a build? How did it go? And what do people think I should take once I have spent 31 points in Arcane? Pyroblast or Cold Snap seem the main talents to aim for from other trees
My two main concerns are that Arcane Missiles is just too low in damage to use as my only talented single target attack and that only having two talented offensive options will prove too tactically restrictive. Of course that's the flip side of the attraction. If I can get away with using those two spells for almost all of my damage then I don't have the inefficiency of spending talent points on several different spells - it's always seemed a bit of a waste to boost both Fireball and Scorch to me
My motivation is
- Curse of Shadows. +75% damage when grouping with Warlocks in the mid to late game. Yummy!
- Arcane Subtlety. 40% threat reduction. With gear I could get this even higher. Arcanist set for instance reduces threat 15%. 55% reduction would be lovely - almost wish I'd gone Alliance so a Paladin could push it even lower. I wonder if it's possible to get so low you can spam IAE without the monsters minding :blink:
- PvP. In their respective ways both Arcane spells are very nice for pvp. Arcane Missiles is much more reliable than spells people can go out of range against. And IAE is imba :)
- Arcane Focus. The way resists work in WoW is somewhat counter-intuitive. Mainly they act to reduce damage and only occasionally to prevent it. Now I think people tend to assess resistance reduction on mobs and players by how often they see the word "resist" appear which is only a small part of the story.
Has anyone tried such a build? How did it go? And what do people think I should take once I have spent 31 points in Arcane? Pyroblast or Cold Snap seem the main talents to aim for from other trees
My two main concerns are that Arcane Missiles is just too low in damage to use as my only talented single target attack and that only having two talented offensive options will prove too tactically restrictive. Of course that's the flip side of the attraction. If I can get away with using those two spells for almost all of my damage then I don't have the inefficiency of spending talent points on several different spells - it's always seemed a bit of a waste to boost both Fireball and Scorch to me