For anyone else who's insane... (59 mage)

I've always loved the burnination of fire mages. My mage is a 49 currently, but I like to toy around and see what I could rip up at 59.



So, in terms of pure, balls-out glass cannon fire, anyone got anything to add to this?



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Note that you can add-

55 fire power (elixir of major firepower)

250hp (elixir of major fort)

36 SP and 14cr (Brilliant wizard oil)

and 23 SP 20spi (food buff)

oh, plus Rum at whatever level it's at currently (15stam? I havn't played since before Wrath launch >.>)



Scorch would be pushing just under 45% crit after the first cast, and 688 fire damage self-buffed.... weeee!



Just... don't get hit ;)



*edit, just for data freaks*



self buffed-

Fire crit: 29.28%

fire spellpower: 688

most fire spells also have +6% crit on top, from talents, and gain +5% from 1 scorch; so, most fire spells will be 35% crit, 40% after scorch)

crits do 170% damage +40%/4sec (so 238% total damage)



Scorch damage:

581-627 base damage, additional 3% crit beyond above



Fireblast damage:

800-885



Pyroblast damage:

1530-1695 +401/12



Blast Wave damage:

548-622



Dragon's Breath damage:

646-725



Flame Strike Damage:

591-683 +743/8sec



Blastwave/DB give insta flamestrikes, back-to-back scorch and/or fireblast crits give insta pyros, YOU below 35% health, 1.5sec pyros, ENEMY below 35% health, +12% damage.
 
Well you could enchant the staff with 81 SP (Wotlk enchant) for starters, also - can't you get the ZG helm enchants from rep?



It would be hella fun blowing shit up :p but man would DK's rape you, lols



*edit* also Rumsy's doesn't stack with food buff, but yes it is +15 stamina, you could also use Fish Feasts...but some people would say that's exploiting
 
Spooksters said:
Well you could enchant the staff with 81 SP (Wotlk enchant) for starters, also - can't you get the ZG helm enchants from rep?



It would be hella fun blowing shit up :p but man would DK's rape you, lols



*edit* also Rumsy's doesn't stack with food buff, but yes it is +15 stamina, you could also use Fish Feasts...but some people would say that's exploiting



Ahh, yeah, I had just noticed I hadn't enchanted the staff last time I was on the char, and I was checking out another fire mage who's got some twink vids on youtube (rerolltroll) and had his armory up, and he had 63 on so I didn't do my research to see what max was >.>



Helm enchant.... you know, I'm not sure. I seem to recall from my research way back when that the helm enchants were a no-go, but hell, I might have just dismissed them as unobtainable for me at the time. I'll have to check that out.

Ah, yeah, they list "required level 60", and I'm fairly certain they can't be applied through trade window.



If you could get a nice healbot (disc priest preferably, for that extra 500hp Fort and 1k PW:S so you won't just get instagibbed) it would be badass :D
 
Locked said:
DKs and Ret would rape you hard :(



2 hits and bye bye





Buffed up you'd have ~4k health +1k shield from your disc priest healbot (what? You don't have one? Psh....).



But yeah, after seeing what someone like Arba can do (and just how ridiculous frost is with that built in +50% crit all over the place) I don't think this is exactly the /best/ option.
 
ya wait til after 3.2 to see how it affects the number of DKs in the nonXP BGs. cuz they will ruin you if its still 90% DKs like it is now. I have basically that same gear for awhile in 59 on my fire mage and it was awsome(preWoTLK)! Locks would out DPS me but thats about it. Ice is a great spec too but i dono how feaseable vs DKs ping pong. but fire/arcane always my favs.



I would definatley not Level from 49 til long after 3.2 and maybe not even then.



you want to get stats were ever you can its better than spl power at that lv. you do soo much dmg anyways you wan tto live
 
Im insane enough to twink a level ten



but this is just way out of my league.
 
The thing with DKs is that they start really really OP at 58 and end up only "quite OP" by 80. For a squishy mage, its probably best to stay as far away from 58 as possible.
 
yes you are insane but if you are going to do it, maybe try frost...

Frankly I would stay at 49s until we see how 59s shape up after 3.2.



Even as Healadin with planned 8k+ health, good damage mitigation (plate/sheild), double-bubble (nigh-invul belt/bubble), heal-through, & some instant heals (shock and some flash-o-lights) I bet 3+ DKs will still be able to rape me. One battle ground had 8-9 DKs and it was a Death-Grip-ping-pong-fest... At least I have up to 8 secs with belt, 10secs with bubble, and 10 secs of uniterruptability due to Aura Mastery to try to keep myself up and team-mates (often also mainly DKs) up while they kill the people ping-ponging me... Bottom line is that sometimes it sucks to be a raw-hide chew toy but that is better than being just a quick tasty morsel...



If you do go to 59s, I would definately try to freeze them in place and try to blink out when they death grip you though I am not sure there are any real good options if DK's stay prevelant... There are a lot of terribad players and skill can trump (CC, smart blinks and terrain usage, etc) so you could do ok but, all things being equal, if many really good/skilled DKs opt for non-XP & true twinking at 59, it will still really suck for squishy clothies...
 
Just saw this video and it underscores some of the points made above. Effective use of these tactics with gear/build towards Arba (more survivability) you could do ok and have fun. Certainly you would be challenging yourself!
 

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