![]() If you're just hitting level 70 and wondering what the patch may have provided for you to upgrade your green quest rewards to, you're in luck. Barring what people eventually start getting from Sunwell Plateau bosses, these are arguably the best PvE caster gear out there. As with the old recipes, you have to be a tailor to wear them but unlike the old recipes, you don't need any specific specialization within the profession. These are both gigantic upgrades over the old BoP tailoring epics, and fairly large improvements over a lot of whatever else you might have on. Get your guild in the 25-man raid instance on Quel'Danas, Sunwell Plateau, and start praying one of these beauties drops off of the trash mobs in there. If you happen to be a tailor like me, and have stacks of Spellcloth and/or Shadowcloth lying around like me, take heart. Plus it'll make you look like a Warlock, and nobody wants that. It's your choice, I suppose, but choosing the Warlock stuff is a bad one, in my humble opinion. The main difference is that the Warlock gear doesn't have spirit (significantly more useful to Mages now that intellect helps it regenerate mana) or spell hit rating (which every Mage should be stacking at this point), opting instead for large amounts of spell crit rating. There are some Warlock items you can buy with badges as well, that I suppose could technically work for Mages too. You'll find the ones you should really be coveting below: Those of you who have been hoarding Badges of Justice will finally be able to spend them on shiny new purples. Once the Armory is reclaimed and phase three is well underway, the long-awaited badge vendor will arrive on Quel'Danas. Once you've gotten your reputation up with the Shattered Sun Offensive (which doesn't take too long if you're running MrT and doing the dailies) you can purchase the following: If you're crazy tough enough to manage the Heroic version of said dungeon, here's what you have a chance of finding: Here's what Mages should be hoping drops there: The first and easiest place to turn for new gear is the 5-man instance, Magisters' Terrace (I pity the fool that doesn't call this MrT). ![]() Most servers are still in the first or second phases of the Shattered Sun Offensive, so the badge vendor hasn't arrived on the island yet. As always, WoWInsider has all of your fancy new loot needs taken care of. In other words: where's the fancy new loot? Well wonder no longer. So you're in Quel'Danas, you've done some dailies, gotten yourself some shiny gold, bur now you're wondering where the good stuff is. ![]() Makes running the flag in the new and improved Warsong Gulch slightly more entertaining.Ĭome back after the break for more gear than you can shake a magical stick at. When you Blink, you get this very nice phased-out effect going on, and you can actually see the arrows and spells pass through you instead of hitting you 25% of the time. It isn't going to let you tank an instance by any means, but it provides some very nice extra survivability in PvP. Secondly, If you haven't respecced to try out the new Improved Blink, you should consider it. Just make sure the healer has a quick trigger finger. If you haven't gotten to AoE the living crap out the room before Vexallus yet, you're missing out. There are a lot of ways for Mages to make themselves useful in the place, what with all the sheepable mobs that pull in large groups and the value of ranged DPS in many of the encounters. It's just the right amount of challenging for what will eventually be the final 5-man dungeon before the expansion. ![]() Unless you know what you're doing, you're going to wipe a few times. You have to know what you're doing in there, so either find a patient group, study up yourself on what to do for each of the boss fights, or invite someone who's run it a few times. We've had the better part of four days with it now, and I have a few thoughts, if you'll indulge me. At some point on Tuesday I may or may not have started sprinting around Quel'Danas Arcane Explosioning over and over until I tagged something, but I can't be sure. I don't know if you've noticed, but there are 8 billion daily quests out there for us to do and most of them involve competing with several hundred players for the same 3 mobs. I almost didn't have time to write a column this week, guys. This week, we'll take a long hard look at the patch as it relates to Mages, including some Mage-related observations and a giant list of all that sweet, sweet, cloth gear. On Tuesday-in case you just teleported in from under the Dalaran bubble this morning and weren't aware-we got a new patch. Every week, Arcane Brilliance endeavors to provide a small peek into the mysterious world of Mages.
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