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10/22/20 Update – RoP no longer drops with Visions of Perfection, Arcane Pummeling nerfed.
In this video I go over everything you need to know about the prepatch, how to play each spec, and what talents and gear to choose to do the highest damage possible.
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My recommendations are based off chats with other top mages, results from an APL I modified myself, and time spent on the PTR testing each build to try and do the most damage.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:17 – Fire Mage
7:36 – Fire Mage Buffs
7:56 – Minute Mage
9:00 – Frost Mage
12:32 – Arcane Mage
19:21 – Summary
Fire Talents:
https://ptr.wowhead.com/talent-calc/mage/fire/m7Bc
Minute Mage Talents:
https://ptr.wowhead.com/talent-calc/mage/fire/m7Bz
Frost Talents:
https://ptr.wowhead.com/talent-calc/mage/frost/m6Jz
Arcane Talents:
https://ptr.wowhead.com/talent-calc/mage/arcane/m6Cz
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Hey there and thanks for the video! Is there a chance to see a video like this for the warlock from you or one of your guildmates maybe? That would be fantastic! 🙂
Great video! I was doing a little testing and guide reading and stuff and it seems like Vision major might be pretty crazy during pre-patch for Frost as well. I tested it by character copying to the PTR and it was pretty crazy. Any thoughts on this?
Hey thanks for the work boss.
Any thoughts on time anomaly being competitive against overpowered?
Any chance you could enable youtube generated subtitles? Would be easier to follow
Any advice for what trinkets are the best now? With Intellect scaling so well, is Font+Badge now very good for all specs, or do proc trinkets like Vita and Shredder perform better?
Subscribed and thoroughly enjoyed. I'm planning on using my mage as my main in Shadowlands
thank you so much for this man! Appreciate your love for mage and for the mage community! Cant wait for Prepatch and all the changes!
great video! thanks man
with Arcane u need to focus on stacking mastery and boosting missiles (Aplification+Arcane Pumelling) instead of versa+blast spam.
I think Vision of Power is the best major for Frost since if gives you a free rune of power every time it procs. You almost always have Rune of Power.
we go for a full nyalotha mythic run tomorrow. kinda curious if fire is still the way to go or should i just go straight for frost? i still have tons of mastery gear.
one more question: if you get brainfreeze, do you just finish your frostbolt, then flurry, IL IL? i heard that there was a bug that you should cancel you frostbolt (stopcast makro on flurry), because frostbolt consumed on of your winters chill charges.
EDIT: found your answer some comments below! 🙂 everything fine, thanks
Great info, although ice ward isn't needed anymore!! I've missed frenetic speed so much!!
Not playing frost or arcane , dont care how buffed they are .To me they r boring and not spectacular.
On point with the videos as usual! Keep it up
Why mastery in frost ? Why boost icicle ?
This was Gs stats, u dont need more than one flash freeze. 3 PI, 1 FF, 1WO and stats for Last.
Not 100%sure but u have to cap shatter then haste or versa, Not mast ?! (like BOD)
Thanks a ton for this! As a Top 10 raider who hasn't played since Uunat died I needed a quick and to the point guide of what's going on and this was it. Very well spoken and put together, cheers for that.
Your frost build is shit tbh.
Hey Preheat, I'm looking at playing minute mage still. During the small combust are you still scotch weaving or adding Phoenix flames in place scotch? Damage meters were not working for me when the patch first launched but with my ignite tracker I can get bigger ignites with scorch weaving versus casting Phoenix flames as the filler. Adding Phoenix flames in that rotation also made keeping three stacks of blaster master feel clunky versus scorch weaving. Thank you!
Your Fire guide on wowhead recomments running From the Ashes instead of Flame On – is there any reason for this? My understanding is that you're going to be spamming Flamestrike with Flame Patch most of the time during packs anyway so I can see some merit in this choice for 2min build… but I wonder whether this also applies to 1min build where you are actually going to be Combusting on most packs? my guess is no and I should just keep playing Bomb in the 1min build, but asking just in case anyway
Nice and informative vid. What's the name of the song playing in the back ground?
Great work mate thank you ! Just a quick question, 11:07 what is that sword ? I would be happy if you can give info about it, looks insane !
Heart of Darkness is pretty much useless right now
My question is:Is it worth picking Lonely Winter in PvP?I know its insane ammount of damage but i dont think we will have much uptime to cast or deal damage when melee classes are training us.Also i plan to reroll to orc from troll
Thanks for the video! Super helpful. One thing I noticed that probably doesn't matter much is that frostbolt doesn't interrupt your heating up streak if it doesn't crit.
Cant wait till Heart of Azeroth is null and void
Dope as always bro <3 thank you for this.
For the frost build, I'm trying out Worldvein major + Vision minor + ROP. It brings Icy Veins CD down to 2.3 mins, which increases the total uptime by a lot and combos super well with Frigid Grasp. Combined with Worldvein + ROP it gives bonkers burst on ST and cleave.
I wonder why everyone recommends Thermal void build for frost mage, Glacial Spike build is actually better in every possible scenario if played well.
Ty Pre👍👍
Am i the only one being hit by the background music 😀
Wont AP go away in pre-patch? Or am i confused?
What are those rectangular health bars you're using called?
Frozen Orb build has BEEN good >:|
I main arcane and i will go crit or mastery all day before vers. The spam on Arcane blast i think crit does the best work.
What is pop your cooldowns in practice?
he was wrong
Do you have any video that helps build a UI/addons for mages
Lol ice ward? Why? Speed boost way better
Where is this pinned comment I see mentioned? I don’t see any pinned comments
My friend just started playing wow and is very new. Is there a good starter guide video that isn't 3 hours long? I ran some dungeons with him today and while I'm tanking and my friend is healing he tends to pull a lot of extra mobs. I don't want to discourage him from playing by giving him too much flak, but I want him prepared enough to not make any random tank/heals have a bad day. I hope to start him out with learning a few things here and there to get a grip on the basics a bit more without overwhelming him with all the everything wow. He is playing a fire mage right now.
I'm thinkin about playing a mage again. I played one in bc was my first lvl 70 and was 2nd ranked mage on my server might go back to it for shadowlands. Been playing warlock for so long now. Either druid mage or shaman and my warrior is what I will play
Why are you showing Azerite traits, I thought all of that was going away when Shadowlands drops? SO won't these guides need to be updated soon? Why even show Heart of Azeroth?