Mage Manual

MAGE MANUAL
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Talents
There are 3 talent-builds we use in raids. Fire Combustion is the top single-target DPS spec, but lacks the crowd control and survivability of the Frost AoE build.

Fire Combustion talents: Link
Arcane / Frost talents: Link
Frost AoE talents: Link
Gluth Kiting Spec: Link

In general, Member-ranked players are free to choose which of those two Frost specs they want to use in raids, and can change when they want the variety. Only the Core-ranked players are free to choose the Fire spec aswell. Because of the risk of overaggro with Ignite and the effective DPS loss with to many Firemages, we want to have max 3-4 Firemages in Raid. That being said, the Class Leader may ask you to bring a specific spec for a raid if he thinks the raid badly needs one or the other spec represented. You are expected to re-spec when specifically asked.
For Molten Core and 20-man Raids you can join with any personal spec you want, so if you were specced for PvP for example, you don't have to respec.




Aspirants
Aspirants in the guild will use Frost AoE spec in every raid until the classleader instructs them to spec differently. The reason for this is that the frost build will help you survive longer, and give you more time to learn how the fights work. It is understood by your classleader that the AoE build will put out less damage than the Fire and Arcane / Frost spec, and your dps is not compared to other mages of another spec so don't worry about that. As an aspirant, our main focus is to see if you can follow instructions and perform basic things like kiting multiple mobs with a slow, silence the mobs when you have to, etc. There are things you must do to prepare for the more complicated bossfights: Read the Raiding-section of the forum, especially the Naxxramas bosses and C'thun.

You will remain as an Aspirant until you meet the member-requirements found here
Take a look around in the Rules and Procedures-section where all the Guild Rules are found, there you can also learn how to request help from the guildbank.





UDmages
Make sure you are always in the mage channel.
Type: /join udmages

Once you have joined the channel, click the chat-options and find the channel, it is possible to change the coloring of the channel to make it stick out to your eye. That way you don't miss important messages that gets typed during combat for example. You can also create a new chat-box for dpmages only, so that you can easily scroll up if you think you might have missed something.
If you get an assignment then make sure you make a plus (+) in the channel. You shouldn't go afk in the raids obviously, but sometimes it will happen of course for whatever reason. Therefore, by responding with a (+) that will let your classleader know that you received the instruction.





Required Consumables
Consumables increase our performance, and it is required that any mage (also aspirants) bring a set of consumables to our hard raids (aq40 and naxxramas only - consumables are optional in other raids). Below is the list of the consumables you need to bring to each AQ40 and Naxx raid.

Required Consumables:
Flask of Supreme Power, Demonic Rune or Dark Rune
Greater Arcane Elixir, Major Mana Potion
Mageblood Potion, Limited Invulnerability Potion, Nightfin Soup, Runn Tum Tuber Surprise
Elixir of Greater Firepower (for Fire spec) or Elixir of Frost Power (for Frost spec)
Rumsey Rum Black Label, Elixir of Fortitude, Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops
Brilliant Wizard Oil, Powerful Anti-Venom, Jungle Remedy, Heavy Runecloth Bandages
Flask of the Titans (if you can't get 5000 health otherwise)
Greater Nature Protection Potions (used in both AQ40 and Naxxramas, bring 2 stacks)
Greater Fire Protection Potion (used in spider wing only, bring 1 stack)
Greater Shadow Protection Potion (used in plague wing, bring 3 stacks)





Before each Raid
First thing is to farm your consumables in advance. Having consumables ready is your own responsobility and you will run the risk of being replaced if you don't have them. Again, the consumables-list above is only required for Ahn'Qiraj Temple and Naxxramas.

Before you head to Blackwing Lair:
1) Bring your Onyxia Scale Cloak if you have one.

Before you head to Ahn'Qiraj Temple:
1) Bring the "required consumables"
2) Bring your AQ40 Mount if you got one
3) Bring your Nature Resistance Gear
4) Bring your Stamina gear for C'thun (read the 5000 hitpoints section)

Before you head to Naxxramas:
1) Bring the "required consumables"
2) Bring 20 light feathers for Anub'Rekhan.
3) Bring your Stamina gear for Anub'Rekhan (spiderwing) + Thaddius (abomination wing)
4) If you are revered with Zandalar Tribe (Zul'Gurub) you can turn in a Zandalar Honor Token and get a "Spirit of Zanza" (potion) that gves 50 stamina and 50 spirit. The stamina part is great for Anub'rekhan and Thaddius to get 5000 health - but it only lasts for 1 attempt so in case we wipe then you can't just rely on this extra stamina. However the spirit is great for Patchwerk that is a long fight and the extra regeneration makes a difference there.





5000 Hitpoints
Dying is never good, but dying can be particularly problemating on some fights.
Anub'rekhanin Spider Wing,
Thaddiusin Abomination Wing, and
C'thunin Ahn'Qiraj Temple are the 3 bosses where everyone need to have at least 5000 hitpoints.
If you're wearing the bloodvine set, that has very little stamina. - you might need to bring extra consumables to reach the required 5000. Here's how you do it:

• Rumsey Rum Black Label (150)
• Elixir of Fortitude (120)
• Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops (250)

Those 3 buffs gives a total of 520.
If that still ain't enough to get you to 5000 health, then you need to bring a Flask of the Titans which gives 1200 hp. If you need this flask, then make sure that you don't use Flask of Supreme Power when we're asked to flask up in AQ40 - use the flask you know you're going to need for C'thun.
Players without 5000 HP will risk being replaced in the raid. And that sucks to happen right after you used all your consumables (and supreme power flask) - but then lacking the stamina.