Playing this right?

I pull dps well enough (22k burn, 14-15k conserve). I feel like I am an ok mage. Yet i always have people here and there who tell me im gearing wrong, that my rotation is wrong, and things along those lines.

I have inspected many mages on my server that raid on the core teams of top guilds, ive also searched mages such as ones from Huge in Japan and other top guilds, and i try and follow their gearset as close as possible. I do my research, I ask questions, Ive been on elitist jerks, and from what i can tell, im doing what they tell me to do.

I guess what i am asking is, upon looking at my gear and whatnot, Am i doing something wrong? Or am i doing things properly, and should i stay on this route throughout my progression.
Belt needs 2x 40 int gems
Helm needs 40 int gem (1 int = 3.5 mastery) thus 20 extra int > 50 mastery
Boots need 40 int gem + Lavawalker enchant
Chest needs Peerless Stats enchant (20 all stat)
Pants need 40 int gem instead of Veiled Demonseye.

Get rid of the blue trinket and buy a DMC: Volcano card. Work through molten front and pick up the Moonwell Chalice.

Valor ring is your next upgrade besides that.

Keep trying to get a Theralion's Mirror.

Aside from all of this you likely to just have rotation and/or uptime issues as far as constant dps.


PS. Without running your char through simc i'd probably say you've reforged out of crit a bit too much. Yes it's typically not as valuable as mastery but not by that much.
I feel the exact same way. Syyx could you review my gear and tell me what im doing wrong? I'm goign to replace all my gems to +40 int after your mentions 1 int = 3.5 mastery.

BTW whats up with your guys hit cap, dont you need to hit 17%?
Improved gear tends to sacrifice hit. If you can keep it under 1% miss chance you'll be ok.

Yea you need a lot of Int gems. Better to have a Veiled Demonseye (20 int 20 hit) in the blue slot in your chest, for more Int.

Bell is ok for a trinket but getting your hands on a Mirror and Chalice would be the way to go for trinkets until you could get something like Shard of Woe and Lightning capacitor.

Get the 50 Int enchant on bracers and lavawalker on boots.

Do the above and your #1 priority is to replace your weapon with mh/oh or a better staff.


All this aside, the problem usually always comes down to the arcane mages rotation.