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I removed Incanter's Absorption since it's going to become worthless in 3.3.3 anyway and worked Slow and Arcane Barrage back into my build. Bosses are immune to slow but mobs like Blood Beast are not so that should make that fight a lot easier. Frost spec works but you lose the snaring effect of Frostbolt so you have to rely on the pet and talent procs to do the job. I'm still crossing my fingers that Frost spec becomes raid viable after the 3.3.3 power scaling increase to Frostbolt but I'm not holding my breath...

The pet doesn't snare.

How is your raid dps with your spec? I got denied a VoA25 spot last night because I wouldn't claim 6k DPS

Doesn't snare? Hmm I thought it was the weakest snare which is something like a 25% slow. Interesting. So I'm proccing snare off of talents a lot more than I thought. I'll have to go check that out now.

Single target Frost DPS? I can claim 5k but I wouldn't claim 6 either unless you're talking AoE fights but then why would you need more than 5k+ dps for VoA anyway?

I run Frost for 5-man/Ony and Arcane for ICC/VoA/etc but I actually find that my Arcane DPS dips more often than my Frost depending on the fights. The only time Arcane seems vastly superior is if I can stand in one place and burn mana and CDs.

What macros do you people use for Arcane if any? One of the things I dislike about Arcane is the amount of CD juggling involved.

PoM
AP
Icy Veins
MI
Accelerators on my gloves (yes this is eng not arcane)
Trinkets

Hmm feels like I'm missing one... I'd love to tie them all together but Blizzard stuck half of them on the same GCD. Doing the math I don't think its worth sticking IV, PoM and Accelerators to AB on the same macro especially with a haste rating above 800. My DPS actually dipped a little after that. But that might be due to gimping myself on the Arcane Potency buff by casting PoM too early. I need to switch that out so I'm casting it on the 3rd AB again so the 4th gets +crit

My mage isn't really as geared as yours likely is, but the only real macro i use is PomPyro (with arcane blast substituted for Pyroblast).

My regular boss rotation is Arcane Blast x 3, then Missile Barrage if one of those 3 casts procced it. If they didnt, I use the instant arcane bolt thingie (I forget what it's called atm), then start over with AB x 3.

I handle the cooldowns thus:

While the tank is running in to establish aggro, I pop my trinket, then Icy Veins, then Arcane Power. Begin rotation.
When the internal CD is up between Arcane Power and PoM, I throw a PoM-AB into the mix, always as the first of the 3 AB casts so that I have time to register whether or not it procced Barrage. Using it as the second or third cast of AB can make you miss a 3-charged barrage cast due to either human input lag, or HUD lag. (You also bump into the GCD on the arcane bolt thingie if the previous AB was instant, losing cast time.)

You probably know more about this than I do. Just throwing in what I do.

You'll get better DPS doing 4 stacks then Missiles (benefits of the buff to Arcane a couple months ago). Drop the instant cast from your rotation entirely unless you're moving and are worried about your stacks expiring and since they reduced the time they probably will.

I specced out of Incanter's Absorption since they nerfed it in 3.3.3 and I'm starting to think that was a bigger DPS nerf than first expected. I don't find myself using frost/fire wards very often in ICC and it no longer works off of Shield. Arcane mages don't have Ice Barrier and no one touches the crap that is mana shield. Mage DPS was average at best, not sure why they gave it a minor nerf but then I don't understand why Blizzard does half of the things Blizzard does.