More Arcane Spell Slinger Thoughts

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Still slinging along as best I can. As I start getting into higher keys (8’s+ has been fine, will get into 10s and such soon enough) now, I’m finding myself ok on ST and WAY BEHIND on AOE when compared with the Ret Pallys I ran with.

Some additional feedback:

  • Clearcasting doesn’t proc enough. You get some smooth runs, sure, but the droughts are just killers, totally unfun.
  • Splinters need to do a bit more damage. A minor 3-5% boost would be a good measure, and make them more impactful.
  • Aethervision is cool, except it’s not. I love the idea, use my 2 blasts for the 2 stacks of precision and then get a big hit and charge reset from the next barrage. Cool! Trouble is, you want me to do much more with barrage than just use it as a reset. It’s also got like 4 modifying talents that make it a killer (especially when enemy is low health), and losing the 20-30% increase damage from precision is a tragedy at times. For the most part, I admit, I just play as intended (because I’m lazy I guess), but there is an obvious reason to play it “broken” and playing it broken sucks, it’s not smooth, it’s awkward, it’s a question mark…oh and the current 4-piece has an almost identical purpose that also overlaps and make me want to hit barrage even if not benefiting from precision, it’s just a hot mess right now.
  • Supernova. Already mentioned elsewhere, but make the Supernova modifier in the hero tree worth taking (make it reset supernova when fully charged…the end)
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First time really ever playing mage.

This is a few weeks into 11.0.5 and the cancelled the Arcane buffs. With people’s ilvls catching up it really feels like the amount of effort of playing around Spellslinger isn’t worth it. Having to look through other people’s weakauras or playing with my UI to track my buffs to maximize my rotation doesn’t feel good.

So far Arcane has been my favorite spec of the three, but the grass is looking greener in the frost tree.

I’ve cleared half of the dungeon pool in 11s and only have done 2 mythic bosses as bench - I don’t like how most of my catch up in overall damagee is waiting for 40 stacks for spymaster big pulls/boss.

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