Raiding Mages

[:1]Might be better in the mage section but as its about raids ill try here.

Been doing naxx with guild every week and i think we are slightly lacking in DPS and could possibly do more.

Myself and a friend are both arcane mages who top the chart in dps.

Would it give better dps if i was to switch to a ffb spec to incorporate the scorch benefits. Would that both increase mine and the other mages dps?

Im new to ffb specs so any help apreciated.

Thanks all|||you need someone who gives the crit buff to the raid. If you dont have it, make sure that you get someone to do it. The debuff increases the entire raids DPS. Dont think about your damage only.|||Thanks for the reply.

Going to give it a try for Fridays naxx and see how it goes. Im severly lacking in hit so that will need sorting but other than that hopefully it will improve things. Drop my sp by 100 to get the hit cap wont make much dif with the sp off the flask to bring it back up.

Anyway thanks|||Get the hit cap asap. Every miss is a wasted amount of damage. Hit capped with lower SP is better than missing with high SP.|||I am right in saying aint I that the hit cap for a ttw/fb mage would be circa 400+ (about 470) without spriest and stuff.

Capped at arcane so gotta try and get me up to 400+ somehow.

Edit: Found it - its 447 or somthing like.|||http://www.wowwiki.com/Spell_hit - theres a handy table towards the bottom that'll help you.|||I don't believe there is any tables out there more informational about hit, or more summarized than this one. I have referred to it many times. If you have any questions about it just ask.

MOST* alliance raid groups have a draenai and a boomkin or shadowpriest. Which means you only need 341 hit rating to be capped, if you have NO talents in any +hit abilities such as elemental precision. The current top dps spec is ttw/fireball which requires a 341 rating as it has no points in any +hit talents.

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|||you better see the mage section for spec questions. As far as i know, the best mage spec at the moment is 18 arcane rest fire. This would of course include the improved scorch.

Visit us in the mage section and read the spec guide by Malentra for more details.