Ulduar Mage Spec Guide! DPS Amounts For Each Spec in P1 BIS & P2 BIS gear!

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  • @TjckTo
    @TjckTo Рік тому +99

    You’re literally the only guy who makes good guides for mages in classic!!! Might be a lot to ask for but.. PLEASE UPLOAD MORE. Thanks for the awesome guide.

  • @AlmostAeroGauge
    @AlmostAeroGauge Рік тому +24

    The absolute mad lad helping every single Mage out with these detailed videos. Thanks for everything.

  • @nickunderpar
    @nickunderpar Рік тому +25

    I have no idea what i would do without these detailed breakdowns. Thanks for all the work you put into them!

  • @Dreamingofsnow-f8b
    @Dreamingofsnow-f8b Рік тому +15

    Sincerely, thanks for all your effort in putting together these vids. Achieved 98.5 avg parse this phase largely because of them.

  • @MrBoxxer95
    @MrBoxxer95 Рік тому +5

    BEST PVE Mage content creator

  • @stevenpeterson3717
    @stevenpeterson3717 Рік тому +2

    I’m pretty sure I’ve watched every one of your mage guide videos 3-4 times. Great work!!

  • @Crateria
    @Crateria  Рік тому +6

    Edit 2: Now that we're into the phase, Fire is pumping with T8 4pc and also due to extra HS procs on any fights with cleave, so go fire if your arcane dps is suffering. I still recommend arcane for FL, iron council, and vezax if your guild is prog'ing on them or still is struggling with dps check on council.
    Edit: Sorry for late update to this.
    Gen Vezax: 100% arcane. If your guild is progressing on it and you need to carry DPS, only go to 3 stacks and use Mbarr as soon as it comes up. Save Iceblock of Mark for animus phase. Go up to 4 AB stacks for animus, but don't spam unless you know you have the mana for it. Also replace haste gear pieces with sp/crit since haste isn't needed on that fight as arcane. There's even a meme spec specifically for Gen Vezax if you really want to min/max the fight for your guild (definitely not needed tho). www.wowhead.com/wotlk/talent-calc/mage/23002523310003215032313250522-03-023003
    Algalon: For Algalon, if you're struggling with damage as arcane then go fire. Algalon is a long fight with a lot of movement, and as arcane it requires a fair amount of optimization with IA and frost warding as well, so if that isn't working out for you, then go fire, as both arcane and fire can do well. As for the fire spec, I recommend having magic absorption for progression unless you have good gear with high stamina or your disc priest has your back. If the latter and magic absorption isn't needed, then any fire ST spec will do fine (i.e. you could go FFB or fire ttw, whichever spec is best with your gear and raid situation).
    Thorim: Same could be said for Thorim, fire or arcane, but I still think Arcane IA spec is better than fire on Thorim if you play it right.
    XT: I originally suggested Arcane for this because arcane burst can help with killing the heart without the need for heroism/lust, and thus heroism/lust could be used elsewhere in the fight to meet the insane dps check of the fight. Now after the nerf, there really is no advantage to being arcane. Either spec can do well here, but I think Fire will be the better choice here due to multi-dotting and cleaving of life sparks and the movement on the fight.
    There's a couple reasons fire is doing well on the logs. One is gear scaling, since T8 4pc is a lot stronger for fire than it is for arcane, so that's a huge boost there, and similarly for some other gear out of Ulduar. The other major part I'm seeing is that while the sims assume optimal play, that isn't what happens irl. It's a lot easier to play fire optimally than it is arcane. Ulduar fights are longer and have a lot of movement, which already closes the gap between arcane and fire, and you toss in mismanagement of mana, cooldowns, and not playing incanter's absorption spec correctly, and arcane performs quite poorly; while for fire, mana management isn't really a thing, cooldown management is very straight forward, and movement isn't nearly as punishing, while arcane requires some finesse to minimize movement's impact on DPS. All together this is definitely weighing down the average of arcane on some fights. That said, overall it doesn't change much. If you're progressing on fights than it's still good to have an arcane and fire spec so that you have arcane for Iron Council (since P3 dmg is all that matters on that fight, and no, on average fire cannot beat arcane burst in p3) and also Gen Vezax. If your guild has everything on farm at this point and doesn't need your dmg in P3 of Iron Council then sure you can drop fire all together.
    _________________
    **NEW** Arcane Algalon Spec - IA
    www.wowhead.com/wotlk/talent-calc/mage/23002503010033015032313250532-03-023023001_001wr211q1b21q1y31rj441rj551kd8
    ua-cam.com/video/8EgBr9K_0PQ/v-deo.html
    After killing Algalon a few times this weekend I'm convinced this is the spec to go. IA+Frost Warding is just too good, and while you can get Frost Warding with Prismatic Cloak, Prismatic Cloak just didn't seem necessary and the extra dmg from IA really makes Fire Ward always a good GCD.
    Take this with a slight grain of salt as I had top notch healers, but I don't think you should have survivability issues with the above spec as long as you use Stoneblood Flask. If you're still having issues though, then sure you could spec back to Prismatic Cloak, but with Algalon its likely other issues that are going on that are the problem and not your individual survivability (unless your gear is shit or something).

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +3

      @@adroit1967 Frost Warding is a talent. The damage on Algalon is fire.

    • @aklip94
      @aklip94 Рік тому

      Thank you! Big respect!

  • @harambemcnaenae4373
    @harambemcnaenae4373 Рік тому +1

    oh hell yeah, just started getting the fire mage ready for uld this is sick great vid im subbing

  • @Avelek1
    @Avelek1 Рік тому +1

    The single thing that helped me the most was pyroblast WA which lets me deal with ignite munching. Thanks a lot for that :)

  • @kalizk
    @kalizk Рік тому +3

    Grats on partner! 🎉

  • @bjmw93
    @bjmw93 Рік тому +1

    Making me a better mage with every upload! Thanks mate.
    Excited to see the Ulduar BiS / Gearing guide too. The Naxx one was really helpful for me making my That's My BiS List for the guild loot council

  • @vinnieco
    @vinnieco Рік тому +2

    Grats on partner Crat! Well deserved

  • @ozijak
    @ozijak Рік тому +2

    Awesome have been waiting to see this drop. Thank you Crat for the effort you've put in for these vids

  • @JimmyCarter.
    @JimmyCarter. Рік тому +4

    Is there going to be a part 2 where it discusses BIS gearing for Ulduar? Love the video and thanks a ton for the effort and support you put in for the community!

  • @zonnic1
    @zonnic1 Рік тому

    Achieved top 700 mage thanks to your videos. Thanks for all the effort you put into these.

  • @slamindorf5478
    @slamindorf5478 Рік тому +2

    Grats on partner! And for making these vids. Unfortunately this just confirms my suspicions of having to swap back and forth all the time, hopefully fires good enough to close the dps gap p3

  • @juvygenius
    @juvygenius Рік тому +5

    Great vid Crat. Only thing that will be difficult to do is optimizing gear for duel spec. It ends up looking like Arcane is the way to go, but I am still thinking that FFB or TTW Fire is going to be more ideal just because of specific encounters that those specs are ideal in. Yogg being a huge one especially for that 0 kill. No question early on pushing with Arcane, but I definitely will favor Fire for farm unless I can definitely do good gear swaps with Arcane. Those aiming to run Arcane as there primary spec should build there second spec around FFB since there is less hassle in gear swaps just for how similar they are.

    • @sergeevichryan5577
      @sergeevichryan5577 Рік тому

      I have the same questions, how bad is arcane in fire bis gear compare to arcane bis

    • @juvygenius
      @juvygenius Рік тому

      @@sergeevichryan5577 Depends if we are talking about TTW or FFB. TTW is a big difference because you end up with a lot of wasted stats via hit pieces. So you need items that can swap into those for Arcane to become more optimal. In total, there are 5 slots that have different BiS between those.
      FFB, though, only has 3 pieces that are different for BiS and you generally can run the Arcane Set with FFB without too massive of a difference. Just certain pieces FFB favors with Spirit/Crit while Arcane favors Haste.

  • @TristanWolfe33
    @TristanWolfe33 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for everything. These guides are absolute gold.

  • @pobegai4ik
    @pobegai4ik Рік тому +2

    Thanks a lot for another useful guide! 🔥
    Congrats on the partner👏

  • @420OngBak
    @420OngBak Рік тому +1

    I see your profile picture, if you like that character from Falling Down you should check out "The Vile Eye" and his series analyzing evil. Does a really cool breakdown of the main characters morality. You'd probably like it as a fan. Thanks for the mage help btw!

  • @zinistrr
    @zinistrr Рік тому +2

    wow amanaguchi that is a throwback

  • @TTDimes
    @TTDimes Рік тому +1

    As always, thanks for your amazing content Crat! We appreciate it!

  • @jaycosto3500
    @jaycosto3500 Рік тому +1

    love the hype @ 17:54

  • @bfdright9529
    @bfdright9529 Рік тому +2

    Keep up the awesome work!! Congrats on the partnership!

  • @NorwayLars
    @NorwayLars Рік тому +1

    Good job and congrats on partner.
    Looking forward to blast Arcane in Ulduar :)
    Thank you for this OP Mage content.

  • @davidschorkmayr4387
    @davidschorkmayr4387 Рік тому +1

    Thanks soooo much!! What would we mages do without your content. I absolutely love your videos

  • @Seadow
    @Seadow Рік тому +1

    Thanks for all your farm - Mage community are insane.

  • @AlexAlex-tb1ih
    @AlexAlex-tb1ih Рік тому +1

    Thank you for your time and effort Crateria! Amazing vid

  • @fabsley
    @fabsley Рік тому +1

    wotlk classic mages best man, thanks as always crateria!

  • @singletonmage1401
    @singletonmage1401 Рік тому +1

    Great video Crat!

  • @fritzschnitzmueller3768
    @fritzschnitzmueller3768 Рік тому +1

    Thanks so much for this! Awesome video!

  • @ryankalavesis3466
    @ryankalavesis3466 Рік тому +2

    ANOTHER VIDEO FINALLY POGGGG
    !!!!!!!!!

  • @mafiotzi
    @mafiotzi Рік тому +1

    Great video as usual.

  • @twayne18
    @twayne18 Рік тому +1

    Great vid, thx.
    Nice to experience this undecided stage in WotLK, finally there is some reason to think about what to do when instead of boring same all the time in P1!
    Looking forward to see how the specs do during progression in P2 in a medium guild environment... Will be interesting - FINALLY!

  • @zandith
    @zandith Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the video. Rock on freaky bro

  • @RydeTheTiger
    @RydeTheTiger Рік тому +1

    Crazy to think of the 250k + mage parses, crat has likely impacted the play of 150k+ either directly through videos/discords or by word of mouth. What a fuckin gangster

  • @TheIndignation
    @TheIndignation Рік тому +3

    With different variations being optimal on different bosses, what would you recommend as a more one-size-fits-all progression dual-spec setup for someone who doesn't want to/can't go respec between bosses for a full run?

    • @rapanoithekat9227
      @rapanoithekat9227 Рік тому

      Depends if u can play arcane or not, if u can position good and also pump arcane is the way to go, most guilds will have 1 arcane mage in whole raid so that 3% dmg also matters

  • @davidschorkmayr4387
    @davidschorkmayr4387 Рік тому +1

    Hey, can you link the weakauras you are using to track trinkets & living bomb on target?

  • @holay565
    @holay565 Рік тому +1

    I love the Stardew valley music here!

  • @Dakir89
    @Dakir89 Рік тому +1

    Master class

  • @ryanwilson9288
    @ryanwilson9288 Рік тому

    You are a wizard yourself sir

  • @Nomienomi
    @Nomienomi Рік тому

    Amazing video! Since across the raid the number of optimal specs is 4, do you respec between fights? (arcane x2 - ffb - ttw). Thanks!

  • @splitterxgaming
    @splitterxgaming Рік тому

    Thanks for the vid homie

  • @TurtIedd
    @TurtIedd Рік тому +2

    Quality content

  • @Matty_matachew
    @Matty_matachew Рік тому

    Great guide, Crateria! Thanks a lot for the insight and time. I'm a little confused as to what to settle for going into the first ID as there are a lot more talent builds than there are specs we can have. With some fights being suggested to take prismatic cloak, others IA. Then on the fire spec end - you suggest FFB and other fights TTW. If I'm having mana issues with TTW in Naxx when not critting enough, should I rather go FFB until I get better gear?

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +1

      probably yes, fights are only longer in ulduar. you'd have to sim to see which is better

    • @Matty_matachew
      @Matty_matachew Рік тому

      @@Crateria Found a neat solution for the time being. Sacrifice 3yard extra range for an extra 10% mana return from master of elements :)

  • @Shirahoshan
    @Shirahoshan Рік тому

    this might be an incredibly troll question at this point. But why not opt for the 2 points into the arcane tree into 3/3 spirit (not for progression) and drop DB/flamestarter/2 points in reach for 6% spirit increase I feel like this is a way bigger throughput to ST but maybe im under valuing the range increase.

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому

      you can def do that for certain fights where you don't need the range, but for fights like firefighter I think the range is def worth it
      you can also sim the value of each point of spirit of the mind if you want to see the dps increase, it's ok but each cast that range gives you is a lot of dps as well. Also remember that the subsequent points in spirit of the mind are worth less spirit than the first point (4% vs 3%)

  • @davidschorkmayr4387
    @davidschorkmayr4387 Рік тому

    Hey crat - can you make a video of which gear you wear for each of the speccs? This would be insane helpful. Thanks much!

  • @aadabimfmkad6041
    @aadabimfmkad6041 Рік тому

    crat ur a god i love ur vids i just want to add one thing. could you focus magic someone then swap to fire?

  • @patrickchristophersen6450
    @patrickchristophersen6450 Рік тому

    hey crateria! thanks for the nice video, with which 2 speccs will you go into phase 2 progression?

  • @PandaOfRegret
    @PandaOfRegret Рік тому +1

    99 best perf avg thx to this man - Souperball :)

  • @baldis12
    @baldis12 Рік тому +1

    Is this based on ptr? Fire mage has higher dps now in the game.

  • @Crix_Gaming
    @Crix_Gaming Рік тому +4

    My mind is physically blown right now. This video is so good that it made me turn away from the purple
    and morph into the Blue.
    JK. Banger video tho.

  • @abcdabcd9132
    @abcdabcd9132 Рік тому

    Good video what is the weakaura your using to show your living bomb above each targets health bar?

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +1

      threatplates shows debuffs, but there is a weakaura for debuff icons as well in my general weakauras pastebin pinned in the weakauras channel on my discord

  • @whisperzzz222
    @whisperzzz222 Рік тому

    Hey Crateria, great guides, I'm just having an issue in Ulduar as FFB specc, my in combat crit chance is around 52%, yet my crit average on logs is never above 34-37%, I thought it's RNG but it's consistently happening. Other guildies with similar/worse gear playing TTW and having 10-12% less crit chance than me average on logs 58-70% crit and it makes no sense, is there some weird bug happening or I don't get it. During phase one while playing FFB specc I didn't have this issue at all.

  • @chc2650
    @chc2650 Рік тому

    Commenting for the algorithm

  • @steinarst9084
    @steinarst9084 Рік тому +1

    The detail and quality of these guides makes my arcane missiles go faster and muh parses go up. For a lazy mage this means FFB/IA the first few weeks? Or do you think it'll be juggling more than two specs?

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому

      I guess I shouldve specified more in thr video but if your guild is progressing on the fights then I would spec swap to the best spec for every boss. After things are on farm then just pick 2 specs you like best to swap between. But for first kills, imo spend the gold and use the best spec you can

    • @Matthewtron3030
      @Matthewtron3030 Рік тому

      @@Crateria This was my question. That means lots of porting and summoning, and the raid being ok with either waiting or you being absent for trash between bosses yeah?

  • @MattAttack11
    @MattAttack11 Рік тому

    xD what was going on with Mimirons head around the 10:00 mark? lol
    Also thx for all the info. makes my life a little easier.

  • @joshkenck5427
    @joshkenck5427 Рік тому

    I have a question. I’m currently 4885 GS with 4 piece t8 and I was doing a lot lower dmg with arcane than fire. Perhaps I’m not good at arcane anymore. But I feel like haste is completely necessary for arcane or it’s terrible?

    • @MrAlternervnet1
      @MrAlternervnet1 Рік тому

      4pc T8 is not good on arcane, you cant really use the bonus as your stacks are gone after the first arcane missiles cast so the 2nd wont do alot of damage.
      You wanna go chest+shoulder if possible as those are the 2 set pieces with haste/sp and without hit (which you dont need alot of as arcane).
      But even if you gear well fire should do more damage in most fights (arcane is better on razorscale and vezax and can do well on thorim and coulcil)

  • @Fleischmann773
    @Fleischmann773 Рік тому

    Started playing about a month ago as mage.
    76 at the moment.
    How do I best gear up and is the Mage sought after when it comes to Raids?

  • @dlmurray55
    @dlmurray55 Рік тому

    If I go fire TTW and FFB as my main and off spec would my extra hit I mainly use for TTW be wasted in FFB spec? Just wondering if I would need two sets of gear for that

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +1

      yes, this is why ffb and ttw have different bis sets. Recommend simming to find optimal sets for both

  • @Soulex87
    @Soulex87 Рік тому

    btw, Imp. Frostbolt is not affecting FFB, is it? Wouldn't it be better to get Frostbite?

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому

      you could, it doesnt matter much, just know that your ffb will then have a chance to root targets that are rootable, which can sometimes get melee killed on targets that are being kited

  • @Raebybbid
    @Raebybbid Рік тому

    So what is the FFB AOE rotation now that we don't take firestarter?

  • @allenmorrison59
    @allenmorrison59 Рік тому

    What addon(s) you using to show timers, etc. ?

  • @Epicdps
    @Epicdps Рік тому

    How many different ranks of Flamestrike were you casting on Auriaya? Holy moly they were going out fast XD

  • @frajkhax
    @frajkhax Рік тому

    Do we know if blizzard plan to fix the double dip bug with FFB or? They have been fast on fixing warrior stuff atleast. Wondering if its worth stocking up on Flask of Pure Deaths or not

  • @markoniksic3630
    @markoniksic3630 Рік тому

    I find that my Pyros and LBs with FFB miss alot, isn´t that an issue?

  • @ZaphTheClock
    @ZaphTheClock Рік тому

    Wowhead seems really weird, it is trying to get us to spec into arcane Barrage for arcane. Isnt missles just a better dump if we arent using the 4 piece?

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому

      You can pick up barrage with flex points, Ive just started to prefer to use my flex points elsewhere. Barrage is still good when there's a lot of movement needed and I can def see its use on fights, I just dont specifically recommend barrage cause I now view it as a flex point and my preferences have changed since when wotlk started.

  • @vamper11
    @vamper11 Рік тому +3

    This is hearsay. Fire all the way

  • @SniperJDM
    @SniperJDM Рік тому

    How do you do 15-20k dps on Hodir. When I do the fight I feel like I'm doing something wrong with my 6kdps. BTW Thank you for these videos they're very helpful.

    • @keytarkrazy12
      @keytarkrazy12 Рік тому +1

      Make sure to be always in the lights, spam FB/FFB and only use your pyro when you have to move, which you will be moving often to reduce your stacks.

  • @nicholaswhelihan1968
    @nicholaswhelihan1968 Рік тому

    Does anyone have a quick comment with which spec he chose for each boss?

  • @fengxian89
    @fengxian89 Рік тому +1

    Health, mana bar and trinkets proc? Is that addon or wa?

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +1

      pitbull unit frames and WA for trinket procs (tellmewhen for tracking illustration stacking), can check my weakauras in the weakauras channel of my discord

    • @fengxian89
      @fengxian89 Рік тому

      @@Crateria Thx, u r best.

  • @altokemir3y
    @altokemir3y Рік тому

    do you still use molten armor in algalon or arcane armor for resistance?

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +1

      You can use mage armor for extra resistance on Algalon if needed, and I did that for some of the attempts while the healers learned the fight, but it's not necessary. If you get the +80 all res talent and 3/3 prismatic cloak then you should be able to survive collapsing stars, and the enrage timer is definitely a thing on that fight until your raid gets more geared up so you dont' want to give up too much dps.
      This is assuming you have P1 BIS gear or close to it I guess, since if you had pre-raid BIS or something you wouldn't have as much stamina. So it depends on your situation I guess, but in general you shouldn't need to run mage armor as that's a big DPS loss for us.

    • @altokemir3y
      @altokemir3y Рік тому +1

      @@Crateria ty thats worth to know

  • @0mr0z0
    @0mr0z0 Рік тому

    Any chance of a P2 Bist list video?

  • @ginz9r
    @ginz9r Рік тому +2

    ♥️♥️

  • @pepsiandrew16
    @pepsiandrew16 Рік тому

    Does flame throwing not say it excludes ffb

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +1

      ffb is 40 yds by default

  • @JC-qz3jj
    @JC-qz3jj Рік тому

    Are these bis list comparisons using the high item levels?

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +1

      yes

    • @JC-qz3jj
      @JC-qz3jj Рік тому

      @@Crateria Literally the best reply I've ever had, thank you.

  • @nickobryant1256
    @nickobryant1256 Рік тому

    Any chance for a phase 2 BiS list in the works?

  • @neaudamien9413
    @neaudamien9413 Рік тому

    what is Arcane MS pliz ? thx

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому

      mana support, 1 mana tide and 1 innervate

  • @lucuslally9491
    @lucuslally9491 Рік тому +1

    Is that stardew valley winter music?!

  • @alexalke1417
    @alexalke1417 Рік тому

    Any bis list for p2 plz?

  • @dovideliezer
    @dovideliezer Рік тому

    Anyone know if a shadow priest UA-cam channel as awesome as this?

  • @D2ezbmu
    @D2ezbmu Рік тому

    Where’s frost?????

  • @nickh3809
    @nickh3809 Рік тому

    I'm going frost, i feel like ITS OUR TIME.
    😂

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +1

      "They called me a mad man"

  • @Ross444444ff
    @Ross444444ff Рік тому

    Arcane bis until end game. Same sadge shit I saw in tbc

  • @dirtymike7290
    @dirtymike7290 Рік тому

    Ez Frost.

  • @sofaspud518
    @sofaspud518 Рік тому

    Pinned comment when?

  • @bfdright9529
    @bfdright9529 Рік тому +2

    First!!

  • @ne7ex
    @ne7ex Рік тому +1

    First dont @ me

  • @totertoter1773
    @totertoter1773 Рік тому

    Sorry but you are clueless, arcane is a dead spec, just use for 3% haste if you don't have a ret. thats it

    • @Crateria
      @Crateria  Рік тому +1

      Enjoy being wrong this phase. "3% haste" lol

    • @totertoter1773
      @totertoter1773 Рік тому +1

      @@Crateria I don't mind being wrong, but the logs already prove that Fire > Arcane in every aspect except Vezax