[PVE Arcane Mage] RISE ARCANE, RISE!

[ballinst]

Proudly Presents:
Arcane Mage Guide

Background

He: LFM Caster TotC25H depan bank dalaran
[Whisper ON]
Me: kk ikut dong, dps caster (full geared, and skilled enough, 2 bloodmages walau blm jalan setnya..)
He: ganti talent PVE atuh kak, ntar dimarahin Z*** gw
Me: *ngeliat talent, jgn2 masih frost talent gw, tapi ternyata nggak, 57/3/11 is a common arcane PVE talent used around the world* ...
Me: lah? ini bukan talent PVE?
He: kata Ch*** fire
Me: oh..
Me: *sambil jalan ninggalin dia, teriak2 kalimat tak patut dilihat di guild* ok
[Whisper OFF]

nb. gw tau siapa orang2 yang dia maksud, tapi gw sensor aja, biar orangnya gak malu kalo baca ini. "He" juga sebuah sensoran, biar dia ga malu gw permaluin disini.

Well, what? Selama gw maen WoW, gw ga pernah percaya talent 57/3/11 spec Arcane itu dibilang talent PVP. Arcane PVP pasti ngambil Improved Blink, Improved Mana Shield, Magic Attunement full, dan Magic Absorbtion juga full. Talent gw yang itu gw KHUSUSKAN untuk raid TotC, dimana banyak boss yang deal AREA DAMAGE yang bisa diMANFAATKAN!

Actually, its still VERY useful to an arcane raiding mage. All bosses in toc/togc, as well as half of those in ICC do frost or fire damage that is very likely to hit you at some point in the fight. The only question is are you a fail 2-button arcane mage, or do you know when to use frost/fire ward and even mana shield in a pinch.

To give specifics. In ToC and ToGC:
Gormok will drop fire bombs on you
Dreadscale will hit you with fire from burning bile,
icehowl will hit you with frost from his breath attack. Preventing this may prevent freezing.
Jaraxxus will hit you with fire from legion flames, Volcano, and infernals
Faction champions have various fire damage spells, most notably hellfire.
The Twin Val'kyr's White balls and possibly other white effects do fire damage,
Anub'arak does Frost in the form of penetrating cold.

In ICC:
Lord marrogar does frost in the form of his coldflame
Lady deathwhisper launches frostbolts in phase 2
Gunship has its rockets or burning pitch which do fire damage.
Blood Princes do fire with fireballs
Dreamwalker's adds do a firend frost damage, most notable is fire from Lay Waste.
Sindragosa has a frost aura and does various spikes of frost damage throughout the fight
The Lich King himself does frost damage in phase 1.5 and 2.5, although its something you will want to avoid
Saurfang, Festergut, Rotface, Proffesor Putricide, and Blood Queen do no Fire or Frost damage. Unless you mana shield which is typically not worth it, Incanters absorption (will be) useless in these fights.

What I gonna say? AMPM udah TERKONTAMINASI SAMA SPEC FFB. Spec Fireball ga ada, Spec Frost PVE ga ada, Spec Arcane SANGAT MINIM, SAMPE-SAMPE DILUPAKAN! Padahal kata Arcane Brilliance di wow.com (click here):

November 2008: Wrath of the Lich King is released. Mages everywhere discover that at level 75 they get access to a brand new spell, called Frostfire Bolt. It combines the effects of both Fireball and Frostbolt. Because it benefits from all talents that affect either fire and frost spells, a new elementalist spec is born. It dives into both the fire and frost trees to take every talent that can possibly improve this single spell. Blizzard wholly endorses this spec, having introduced the spell for the sole purpose of allowing such a talent configuration.

December 2008: As mages everywhere enter the initial stages of raiding content in the new expansion, they discover that the so-called Frostfire build is at that time the single best DPS mage spec in the game.

March 2010: Frostfire what? I'm sorry. I totally forgot what we were talking about. Oh yeah. That old spell. People still use that?

Why? Because Torment the Weak.

Torment the Weak is a strange talent. It's incredibly powerful. So powerful, in fact, that it has become a mandatory talent for every single mage spec. Fire mages go into the arcane tree to take it. Frost mages must also spend an otherwise pretty useless 20 points in that same tree to obtain it. The near-constant 12% flat damage increase it provides in a typical raid setup is such a huge buff that it simply isn't an option for a pure DPS spec to avoid it.

Sebelom gw lanjutkan, gw pengen ngasih tau bahwasanya ini guide 70% bersumber dari sini (thanks to ao_aduy dah ngasih tau tentang Arcane Brilliance di wow.com) dengan segala perubahan yang dimungkinkan bagi saya.

Introduction

Arcane, bukan elemen api dan bukan pula es. Keistimewaannya adalah SINGLE TARGET PURE DPS.

Arcane Pros and Cons

(+) Damage ++
(+) Rotasi Mudah
(+) Hit Cap Mudah
(+) Mendongkrak DPS yang lain dengan Arcane Empowerment, Slow juga bagus saat TM-an
(+) Missile Barrage FTW
(+) Bagus untuk mobile fight
(+) Arcane Missile enak dilihat, suatu lecutan psikologis tersendiri

(-) Terlalu kondisional (Missile Barrage, Arcane Concentration) yang berakibat thdp efisiensi mana
(-) DPS sulit stabil, terutama long-term-fight.
(-) Kurangnya AoE damage
(-) Arcane Missile dipengaruhi latency server dan latency kita (CMIIW)

Talent Discussion

Arcane Talent Type 1 - AoE Boss Encounter Speciality

Arcane Stability (3) - Kenapa cuma 3, bukan 4 ato 5, karena 3 aja itu udah cukup, 1-2 point dispent lagi ke ini talent cuma buang2 doang.. blom lagi kalo ada cover dari Power Word: Shield.

Magic Absorbtion (0) - Biar titelnya buat encounter AoE, tapi sulit utk full resist spell suatu boss, jadi gw rasa kurang worth ngoper ke ini talent.

Magic Attunement (1) - 1 poin lagi bisa diambil dari Arcane Focus kalo hit dah cap. Kalo hit cuma 13%, mending diisi 1 aja, range bisa kita kejer pake blink kok.

Incanter's Absorbtion (1) - Efeknya baru, di patch 3.3.x menjadi Fire Ward, Frost Ward, Ice Barrier dan Mana Shield jadi ngasih SPower, kalo patch kmaren cm mana shield doang. Ini benefit bgt buat lwn kyk Jaraxxus ama Anubarak yang spellnya Fire dan Frost.

Slow (1) - Bisa mengkontrol TM ketika TM-an, blom pernah ya diselamatin ama Slow ketika TM-an? sementara raid grup dah wipe, gw ngekit sendiri pake slow sambil barrage2 dibantu 1 healer.. lol

Arcane Mage Type 2 - DPS Focus

Student of the Mind (1) - Kurang worth ambil banyak-banyak, since spirit cuma nambahin crit doang, kalo nambahin spellpower kayak priest punya boleh deh. 4% - 7% - 10%, nambah konstan ke talent berikut cuma 3%, beda 1% ama yang pertama.

Prismatic Cloak (1) - -1 second fade Invisibility bisa menguntungkan apabila burst kita pas awal2 mengancam threat. Apalagi cast range kita makin jauh karena Magic Attunement diambil 2.

Mobile Talents

Arcane Focus - Ini talent bisa dimobile-in kalo merasa hit rating anda sudah cukup.

Explanation: You can switch a few points around, but if you’re seriously playing arcane, you’re going to have a 57/3/11 point distribution. The main source of moveable points is the first row of the arcane tree (you can mix and match those talents based on preference, hit rating, threat sensitivity, etc.), Magic Attunement, and Student of the Mind. The rest of the talents are basically required.

Arcane Stability - Kalo lawan boss yang bukan AoE damage, kurang preferable talent ini.
Student of the Mind - gak perlu dijelasin
Magic Attunement - Moar range, biasanya buat mobile fight macem LK dimana range jg berpengaruh thdp entire fight.

Gemming

Selain yang bonus socketnya Spellpower, tabrak +23 spellpower. Tapi kalo bonus socket spellpower, +12 SP 10 spirit jg jd.

Stats yang perlu dikejar..

- Spell hit (wajib udah cap, plg ngga 13/14%, 3-4%nya dari talent aja)
- Spellpower
- Spell haste (tidak perlu dijelaskan)
- Spell crit (salah satu keistimewaan arcane dari critnya yang bikin mata seger)

Stats yang kurang perlu dikejar

- Spirit (no gemming spirit kecuali ngejer socket bonus)
- Mp5 (tidak perlu dijelaskan)

Rotasi Ability

1. Arcane Blast 3-4x
2. Jika M. Barrage Trigger, lepaskan arcane missile saat itu juga. Jika tidak, lanjut ke 3, ato balik lagi ke 1 dengan catatan, fight sudah mau berakhir dan tidak worth menyimpan mana banyak-banyak ketika fight sudah selesai.
3. Lepaskan Arcane Barrage, dalam rangka menghilangkan debuff Arcane Blast. Damage arcane barrage juga ga boleh diremehin, up to 8k crit dgn stack 1-2 AB.
4. Kembali ke 1

Rotasi Ability Ber-CD Arcane Power, Icy Vein, MI, Trinket - Jika bukan Engineering, Ignore kata "Hyperspeed Accel dst." - Jika Trinket 2 2nya Equip Non-use, Ignore kata "Trinket dst."

1. Jika profesi Engineering, mulailah fight dengan AB 1-2x, lalu Hyperspeed Accel. + Presence of Mind. Jika tidak Engineering, simpen PoM untuk melepas Arcane Missile w/ Missile Barrage, supaya dapet Arcane Potency yang mengakibatkan crit chance tiap misil lebih gede.
2. Setelah trinket kelar share CD sama Hyperspeed Accel, pake Macro Arcane Power, Icy Vein, Mirror Image, sama Trinket (apabila trinket versi use) pada saat yang bersamaan, mulailah burst total, DPS arcane keangkat disini.
3. Ketika Hyperspeed Accel. kelar muter, setiap kali kelar muter, langsung pake aj. Tidak ada worthnya disimpen-simpen.
4. Ketika Arcane Power kelar muter, sementara Trinket, MI sama Icy Veins masih muter, pake aja Arcane Power. Ntar pas Arcane Power kelar muter, pada saat yang bersamaan MI, Icy Veins dah siap.
5. Jangan pake Trinket kecuali Heroism/Macro Combo AP, IV, MI lagi nyala, kecuali jika fight sudah akan berakhir.
6. Cast Evocation diakhir detik Icy Vein ato ketika Heroism, kira2 2 detik sebelom efeknya abis, supaya hastenya membuat Evocation berjalan cepat dan tidak membuang2 waktu sehingga DPS tetap stabil.

Note: Jangan lupa Iceblock jika ad debuff yang kiranya mengancam nyawa/DPS Anda (Touch of Jaraxxus, Incinerating Flesh (-50% dmg done), dan sebagainya).

Sources Semua yang membantu gw, yang membuat gw pengen bikin guide ini, dst dst.

- Arcane Brilliance - wow.com
- Beberapa orang-orang AMPM yang sok IDE
- Myself
- You! for reading this guide

Akhir kata, jika kiranya ada kata-kata yang salah, mohon dimaafkan. Apabila ada informasi di guide ini yang salah, kiranya diingatkan sehingga saya bisa meralat kesalahan tsb.

RISE ARCANE MAGES, RISE! TUNJUKIN BAHWA GA CUMA FFB *NEWB* SPEC YANG JADI RAJA!

Regards,
Yimo

[aimofdrama]

regards.. arken misil keluar 1.. gg

[mugen]

gemmingnya ji di update2

[ballinst]

regards.. arken misil keluar 1.. gg

www.serverngelag.com
tapi skrg dah jarang kok kiw
kalo dl yg parah itu pas 3.2.2
ngelagnya puol

tp keknya FF jg bisa kiw

gemmingnya ji di update2

dah gw detilin lg tuh

[aimofdrama]

di twins terpaksa ganti fire,

selera sih enak pake arken liat animasi nya oke banget + suara missilnya

[takealook]

enak sih arcane,tapi y gitu loh... Lag dikit aja, itu misil ngendet2 uda kek macet d jalan tol...

walaupun uda jarang, tapi masi terasa....

nice guide smile:

[ballinst]

untuk masalah twin gw angkat tangan deh @_@
gw sendiri jg sempet kapok dl ngelag bgt, mo spam AB until die blm tentu ada replenishment ngestack
tapi di boss2 TotC laen arcane gw (bloodmage masi bug, unliving ms bug) minim 5k ++ pasti @_@
ga kalah sama spec lain

semoga Arcane Empowerment dibenerin, Reign Unliving dan Set T10 dibenerin..
*www.banyakmaunya.com*

EDIT:
PS terbaru, DPS 6k di Gormok dan 5600 di Jaraxxus, t10 setnya blom jalan, reign unliving juga blom jalan, arcane empowerment jg blom jalan.
gak ada DPS Caster pump, cuma flametongue shaman doang.

[flo0pz]

andaikata latency nya yahut...
oke2 aje dah...
sayangnya...

macet mulu bo... kadang cman kluar 2x... kadang 3x... sumpah mampus gw mentok kluar 4x itu... ga perna liat 5x keluar sekali cast....

tp tetep ae gw pake soale asik ngeliat tu rudal2 wkakwakwakwa

[ballinst]

andaikata latency nya yahut...
oke2 aje dah...
sayangnya...

macet mulu bo... kadang cman kluar 2x... kadang 3x... sumpah mampus gw mentok kluar 4x itu... ga perna liat 5x keluar sekali cast....

tp tetep ae gw pake soale asik ngeliat tu rudal2 wkakwakwakwa

yoyoy, emg sakit ati liat udah stack 4 capek2, trs lagi AP ama IV, taunya ngelag..
btw, latency kita ngaruhin juga ya? gw dl pernah lag sendiri malah ga kluar..
ntah apa di layar yang laen gw ngeluarin ato kaga

[chowwww]

he kata sapa spec fireball ud ga ada?
btw mo spek arcane kek mo fireball kek mo FFB kek yg penting hrs ada Dying Light biar top dps (fakta lho dgn proc ngebug)

[ballinst]

he kata sapa spec fireball ud ga ada?
btw mo spek arcane kek mo fireball kek mo FFB kek yg penting hrs ada Dying Light biar top dps (fakta lho dgn proc ngebug)

yang gw liat sih skarang ga ada.
semua orang FFB FFB FFB FFB
itu di ally loh, gw ga tau di horde gmn. sori klo terlalu subjektif

[Ardooo]

ane talent fire-arcane gan, hehe

[ballinst]

ane talent fire-arcane gan, hehe

one light in the darkness >.> word to describe this condition
lol

[tyo07]

gua dari kapan tau itu 1 spec dari awal WotlK masih fire tuh, spec satu lagi gua main2in aja dari arcane, frost PvE, ffb, tapi satu spec fireball ga perna gua utak atik. mengejar pyroblast 20k coi, dan paling demen gua jadi fire ngancurin threat tb, jgn belagu lo biasa mage pake ffb threat reduction masih kecil, skali kasih fire, mondar mandir da kwkw.

btw wajar sih ffb, orang2 kan gearnya aja masih bnykan yang acak2an, hit rating cap aja ditanya jg belum tentu tau.

jgn dengerin kata ekiw the bugger, mage gagal di twin.

[ballinst]

tar lockout hari ini gw pgn coba ah talent fire.. pgn ngerasain susanya gmn.. @_@
keki jg pake arcane terlalu AMPM-dependent, tapi pd dasarnya bagus loh kalo server ga ngelag