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Fire Mage: Burn Baby Burn

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This is going to be a slightly enthusiastic post.

You will not find me very enthusiastic when I hit 85, because fire mage mana management is terrible and the crit suppression means the spec will be far, far less fun to play. But right now? Oh man, best fun I have ever had in WoW.

Tonight I played with what I call the “fun spec”.  I took improved flame strike.  I took fireblast range AND impact.  I even took cauterize.  And . . .

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Mage in 4.0.1

Proposed 'Workhorse' Skeleton Build (4/32/2+3)

The obvious questions come up every time there are major class changes, and especially at expansion boundaries: what are you going to be using when the patch hits?

I’ve only looked in detail at fire so far because I think the tree offers almost unparalleled flexibility and features for ICC-era raiding.  Frost’s main advantages at this point are threat (pet damage counts towards your dps but not your tps) and mana efficiency — it may end up being better single-target DPS, but . . .

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