Hottice Mage App.

Level 80 Frost Mage "Hottice"

Playtime:
Sun-Thurs: 6pm-2am
Fri & Sat: 6pm-11pm

Currently Frost but can respec to Fire if wanted.

Raided in BC

Just recently achieved level 80 but I have been doing heroics and raids to gear up as fast as possible.

At the moment, the cookie cutter 0/53/18 frostfire raid spec is the top raid dps build for a mage, but it is also the worst dps build for trash and quick fights. Frost is a superior spec for heroics and five mans, so stick with it as you farm heroics.

DPS in this guild has been a problem lately and unfortunately your current stats will not be able to put out competitive numbers compared to our current DPS.

I know you just dinged 80, but I will give you criticism based on where you are currently.

Spellpower: 1035
Hit rating: 0
Crit chance: 14.49%
Haste: 140

At first glance, spell power and criical strike chance seem decent for a new 80, but then there's the hit rating. Honestly, I don't see how it is possible to get to 80 and have absolute 0 hit rating. There are many many many opportunities for gear with hit rating, it's like you had to look and avoid hit rating completely. Hit rating is way too important of a stat to overlook and dodge. It doesn't matter how much spell power and crit you have if your spells are not hitting your target. The hit cap is 17%, 14% talented with 3/3 elemental precision. It's about 26 hit per 1%, making the hit cap 368 with 3/3 elemental precision (3%).

Decent stats for a starting frostfire spec'd mage would be around 1300 spell power, 25% crit rating (fire spells), 200-300 hit rating. This can easily be achieved with some heroic and 10 man gear, though it seems you'll want to gear up from heroics and 5 mans even before even 10 mans. Frostfire 0/53/18 specs are very crit friendly/dependent; you'll want to get a good amount of crit before getting haste.
Your stat priority should be hit > spell power > crit > haste

Looking at your talents, you do not 3/3 elemental precision on the 2nd tier of the frost tree and 3/3 frost channeling in the 4th tier of the frost tree. The 3% hit rating is absolutely essential to a pve spec unless you have extra hit rating to back that up. You will need an additional 26 hit rating to cap for every point not spent into this, making the capped hit rating 446 with 0/3. Three points into frost channeling is 10% mana cost reduction and 10% threat reduction. Unless you can manage your mana through fights 10 minutes or greater and be able to manage your threat, you should have 3/3 frost channeling. These talents are essential for frost, fire, and frostfire specs.

As for some easily obtainable gear, here's a list I compiled from the top of my head as I posted on the official wow forums: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13594149565&postId=135928163834&sid=1#1

Quote :

I'll whip up a quick list of easily obtained gear:
Chest:
Kirin tor exalted - robes of cracking flame - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44180

Boots:
Wyrmest exalted - sandals of crimson fury - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44202

Leggings:
Halls of Lighting (heroic) - woven bracae leggings - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37854
Have yet to drop for me The boss may be a bit of a challenge for some

Wrist:
Violet Hold (heroic) - azure cloth bindings - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37884

Weapon:
Kirin tor revered - flameheart spell scalpel - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44173

Badge loots:
25 Off hand - Ward of the violet citadel - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40698
25 Neck - Encircling burnished gold chains - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40680#comments
40 Trinket - Sundial of the exiled - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40682
40 Waist - Plush sash of guzbah - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40696 + http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41611 extra gem socket

60 T7 gloves / 80 T7 chest
Heroes' Frostfire Gloves - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39495
Heroes' Frostfire Robe - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39492

Easier alternative if you're saving badges for other gear:
chest - Gundrak (heroic) - Arcane flame alter garb - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37641
gloves - Nexus (heric) - gloves of glistening runes - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37172

These are some items I went through as I was gearing up. 10 mans also seem to be an easy way to gear up.

Any questions? Feel free to ask and I will answer them to the best of my knowledge.

~Lurk
Magistrix Kaylin (armory)

I hate u kaylin though I have to agree to all ur statements up there.... sigh...



P.S:: I always want people to be hit capped ( if dps)

Oh and some important notes:
Until the patch, frostfire bolt has an additional 3% hit rating
There's an additional 3% hit rating from a shadow priest's misery debuff.

i love how kaylin answers in apps when has like no authority

Pretty epic cause nothing will happen. Overstepping boundaries ftw. Wait a minute, what boundaries?

id beat u but chaos will do it free of charge an take pics