Combat mage

[Goregasmic]

Originally Posted by Snaggles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think in some ways people make this more complicated because they ignore the fact that the mage is a solid dps class (especially for those without raid gear). Likely because few parse and see how the pets are stacking up.



Clicking for 45 dps is certainly more boring compared to chain casting Lure of Ice but I guess so is medding. In classic timeline, less gear went to alts so they were likely more of a stat piece with a novelty click, rather than a grind aid.

Yeah opening up with it was often a free nuke, not bad to finish snared runners too. Also more sustain in groups which is the biggest downside of wizards. Even without the corner strat it was good. Never did the math on if it was better dps to med for next nuke than to chain click when you ran out of mana on a raid.

And yeah, thurg and PoF robes had better stats and we weren't in VP yet. When VRoT dropped I was prepared to DKP dump on it and it was defaulted to me since no one else wanted it... so it wasn't sought after.