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Thursday, April 28, 2011
world of warcraft pvp mage build part 2
6. Macros
Freeze on your Frostbolt
#showtooltip Frostbolt
/cast frostbolt
/click PetActionButton4
Summon your pet if you don't have one or cast freeze
#showtooltip Summon Water Elemental
/cast [nopet] Summon Water Elemental
/cast !Freeze
Cast Ice block or cancel it, spam it for a debuff remover.
#showtooltip Ice Block
/stopcasting
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cast Ice Block
Sheep your focus if you have one, else it will cast on your target.
#showtooltip Polymorph
/cast [target=focus, exists, harm] Polymorph; Polymorph
And the same for Counterspell
#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus, exists, harm] Counterspell; Counterspell
7. Addons
Gladius - Arena unit frames -
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gladius.aspx
Gnomish interrupter - Party chat info about your CC -
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gnomish-interrupter.aspx
Quartz - Must have castbar -
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/quartz.aspx
OmniCC - Timers of cooldowns on your action bars -
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/omni-cc.aspx
8. Tips
Practice alot. All good mages started with killing boars. A good way to practice is dueling.
Don't be scared outside the gates of Orgrimmar or Stormwind. Find someone of your skill
level and duel with him, get revenge if you lose so that eventually you let him bite the dust.
Another way to train your skills for arena is... arena! Find someone to play 2v2 for fun,
you will learn your own class but other classes too + you get the conquest points cap!
Watch Mage PvP videos. Vanilla WoW or not, skills are skills. You can still learn from
old movies because killing is for the most part kiting/position work.
You can find some here or choose one down: http://warcraftmovies.com/movies.php?
class=4&category=1&tab=dls
Vurtne - Probably the best mage ever. He doesn't play anymore so the movie is a bit old.
http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=39506
Noone - Movie captured in TBC.
http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=70655
Saru & Tharbad - 2v2 with double Frost Mage
http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=55762
Gameking - Arena in WOTLK, 2v2 and 3v3
http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=131789
There aren't much good Cataclysm videos because the expansion is young and it takes
loads of time to make one.
Copied from http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1710233539 :
Always CS a lock on Hand of Gul'dan. It will lock his fire and shadow school.
The same counts for a druids Starsurge and Frostfire Bolt from a mage.
If a warrior uses Spell Reflect, cast fire blast to take it away. If you're low you can use
Polymorph to get yourself up again.
If you spellsteal Hand of Sacrifice, 30% of the damage you take will still go to the paladin.
You can cast out of a rogues smoke bomb, you can't cast into it.
Spamming pet follow will stop your images to attack someone.
Flame orb hits rogues in stealth and brings them out, despite no animation of it hitting.
Save up 2 finger of frost procs, icelance twice, then pet nova and icelance twice more,
potentially 4 gamebreaking crits.
You can use Blink to avoid fall damage, just cast it when you're almost about to hit
the ground.
When defending a base in BG, position your pet twenty yards in front of you, you
can use its freeze spell to stop horde
in their tracks which lets the defence guys get the first hit in.
Critism is welcome as long as it's constructive.
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These are excerpts from world of warcraft armoury forum
world of warcraft pvp mage build part 1
1. Spec
2. Glyphs
3. Stats
4. Gear
5. Gems & Enchants
1. Spec
At the moment there are 3 different builds viable.
Frost with middle burst, and passive oriented talents.
7/3/31
http://wowtal.com/#k=kqbKKsHC.aei.mage.
Frost with middle burst but alot of stuns due Impact.
2/8/31
http://wowtal.com/#k=SHRH95L6.aei.mage.
Frost with high burst, i recommend this one.
9/0/31
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#oMhbbZZffdhsusd0o
You can change the spec if you're feeling that something is not right.
2. Glyphs
Prime:
Glyph of Frostbolt - Increases the critical strike chance of your Frostbolt spell by 5%.
Glyph of Frostfire - Increases the damage done by your Frostfire Bolt by 15% and your Frostfire Bolt now
deals 3% additional damage over 12 sec, stacking up to 3 times, but no longer reduces the victim's movement speed.
Glyph of Ice Lance - Increases the damage of your Ice Lance spell by 5%.
Major:
Glyph of Evocation - Your Evocation ability also causes you to regain 40% of your health over its duration.
Glyph of Polymorph - Your Polymorph spell also removes all damage over time effects from the target.
The third one depends on your playstyle as there are 3 options available.
Alot of mages switched from Ice Barrier to Icy Veins or Blink because Ice Barrier is in a really bad state now.
Glyph of Ice Barrier - Increases the amount of damage absorbed by your Ice Barrier by 30%.
Glyph of Icy Veins - Your Icy Veins ability also removes all movement slowing and cast time slowing effects.
Glyph of Blink - Increases the distance you travel with the Blink spell by 5 yards.
Minor:
Here again it depends on your style, choose what you like.
Glyph of Conjuring - Reduces the mana cost of your Conjuring spells by 50%.
Glyph of Armors - Increases the duration of your Armor spells by 30 min.
Glyph of Slow Fall - Your Slow Fall spell no longer requires a reagent.
Glyph of Arcane Brilliance - Reduces the mana cost of your Arcane Brilliance spell by 50%.
3. Stats
First of all, get the hitcap. You don't want to lose an arena because you're Polymorph missed. The hitcap
for mages is 4% and it isn't really hard to get it, if you're full PvP Gear you'll need probably 1 hit gem.
The Spell Penetration cap is 240, you have two options to get the cap:
Bloodthirsty cloak with 70 Spell Penetration enchant = 248
Vicious cloak with a hit gem = 251
Also, you need about 17% crit, otherwise youre shatters will never come off.
If you have these 3 stats it's: Int > Crit > Haste/Mastery.
4. Gear
PvE gear isn't viable in PvP anymore so i suggest to go full PvP gear. With Ice Barrier in this state you
really need loads of resilience to stay alive. Most Mages are running with 3000-3400 resilience these days.
NEVER gem for resilience because it isn't worth it. When you reached ~3300 you can choose to use Crit
trinkets instead of resilience, but that's your choice.
If you have Engineering, make sure that you get Lightweight Bio-Optic Killshades with a +Crit and
a +Resi cogwheel.
5. Gems & Enchants
Head - 60 Intellect and 35 Resilience rating
Shoulder - 50 Intellect and 25 Resilience rating
Cloak - 70 Spell Peneration/50 Critical Strike rating
Chest - 40 Resilience rating
Wrists - 50 Critical Strike rating
Hands - 50 Haste rating
Belt - Belt buckle
Legs - 95 Intellect and 80 Stamina
Feet - 30 Stamina and Minor Movement Speed
Main Hand - Power torrent or if you don't have the money Hurricane
Off Hand - 40 Intellect
Meta gem - Chaotic Shadowspirit Diamond
Red gem - 40 Intellect
Yellow gem - 40 Critical Strike rating or 67 Critical Strike rating if you have Jewelcrafting
Blue gem - 20 Critical Strike rating and 20 Hit rating or 50 Spell penetration
#1
so in the next post I will cover:
6. Macros
7. Addons
These are excerpts from world of warcraft armoury forum
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