My formative years fell mainly within the late-80's and early 90's, back when Double Dare and Saved by the Bell were a daily afternoon ritual and it was perfectly acceptable to show up to school wearing parachute pants and looking like Brian Austin Green from 90210 (I'd be careful about clicking that last youtube link, the video contained therein quite literally made my brain bleed). My family was...um...frugal, so school shopping was always an exercise in humility.click buy wow gold, buy cheapest wow gold now! "But Mom, all the other kids are wearing Bugle Boy and Jordache, why can't I?" "Everybody else will have a sweet Trapper Keeper, why pokgdlcvdjfotwso do I have to get this crappy notebook?" "My friends get to play Crystalis and Life Force, why am I stuck with Destination Earthstar?" I know that last one isn't at all related to education, but even wow power leveling wow gold aion gold wow power leveling EU-Magtheridon pokgdlcvdjfotwsu is a very special case. It's the home of Nihilum, now Ensidia, and they play Horde. Naturally a lot of people rolled there as Nihilum hopefuls, others rolled there just to hear all the gossip and news firsthand. That meant the Horde earned a quick upperhand on the wow gold server, which made the Alliance less inclined to play there, and it just snowballed into the imbalance you see there today. Not much you can do about it, really. Those sorts of things just happen around well known people. wow power leveling Debesun asked... Is this big swirly maelstrom in the middle of the map a big whirlpool or a aerial vortex storm.. thing? The maelstrom you see on the map is The Maelstrom. Gasp! It's a very whirlpooly, stormy area of the world, where the Well of Eternity used to aion goldbe. It blew up, split the world into a few different pieces, and there's all sorts of tasty ruins down there now like the former Elven capital and its Queen. We'll probably be going there in a future expansion, though it's never been specifically stated. Kishin asked... Is there a mote extractor for the clouds in Northrend? There isn't a new Northrend mote extractor, but the Zapthrottle Mote Extractor from Outland/The Burning Crusade works on them just fine. You use the exact same one. while school shopping, my mind was on games. A lot of my best memories involve the Playchoice 10 display at Montgomery Ward. All of these questions and many more elicited the same response: "Chris, you shouldn't worry about what other kids have. You can't compare yourself to other people." Oh Mom, how wrong you were. How very, very wrong. In World of Warcraft, the late stages of the game revolve around how your class compares to those around you. Your raiding value is determined by how much healing you can muster, how many other classes and specs can out-DPS you, or how well you can hold aggro and mitigate damage. PvP is essentially a caste system so rigid and brutal India would be proud of it. So now that we've had the Lich King around for a solid two months and the classes have begun to settle into their roles, how do Mages stack up? Where do we rate? Can we walk down the cool kids' (Death Knights) hallway? Or are we the nerds, staying in the library at lunch to avoid getting beaten up because we bring Dragonlance novels and issues of Nintendo Power to school? Join me after the jump and we'll discuss where Mages stand. Raiding We'll begin with the PvE side of the game. The current end-game raid content is relatively forgiving, so there isn't the same sort of elitist shunning of sub-par DPS classes and specs that went on toward the end of The Burning Crusade. Still, it's already clear which of the various damage dealers you actively want in your raid and which you think twice about bringing along. There are now four serviceable raiding specs for Mages, and the best of those, from a pure DPS output perspective, is the Frostfire Bolt spec. Arcane Brilliance's guide to this spec specifically and others can be found here and here. There are several variations of this particular build floating around, but all of them involve speccing specifically around maximizing the damage output of Frostfire Bolt, and then spamming it almost exclusively in boss fights. Well-geared Mages with this spec tend to finish fights near the top of DPS meters, usually competitive with Moonkin and Shadow Priests, but well below Warlocks. This is a favorable change from The Burning Crusade, where we'd often find ourselves below Hunters, Rogues, Warriors, Hunter pets, Warlock Imps, Shadowfiends, AFK gold farmers who weren't even in the instance, Mechanical Yetis, Compact Harvest Reapers, and our own Water Elementals. It's good to feel competitive again. Fire/Arcane builds with Torment the Weak can sometimes out-damage elementalist specs, but only if there happens to be a deep Arcane Mage in the group willing to keep Slow up on the target for the duration of the fight Otherwise, Fire Mages fall well short of the damage output of FFB specs, though they are still capable of generating very solid DPS. Arcane Mages currently finish fights just above Frost Mages, but this is due to change with the release of patch 3.0.8. The main issue Arcane Mages face right now is managing their mana pools in longer fights, and changes like a shortened cooldown for Evocation--which can be talented down to two minutes after the patch hits--should help to resolve that problem. Arcane DPS is already high (when they have mana), and the new version of Arcane Blast and change to Torment the Weak will only improve that DPS. Damage output aside, in the category of raw, unadulterated fun, Arcane is without peer.


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