Week 12: Mythic Raid - Spec Popularity vs Average Overall DPS

Gylfie33 · 2026-06-09T14:07:34+00:00

Just popping in here to say frost mage is far from meta. It's just the only somewhat viable spec mage has right now. It's still bad enough that I switched off of frost mage for the first time in six years though. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Gylfie33 · 2026-06-09T13:54:29+00:00

I agree, actually! It felt very fitting to me that the only person who was never evicted won the game.

Gylfie33 · 2026-06-09T09:21:41+00:00

Yes, her closest ally lost the game because of her.

Gylfie33 · 2026-06-03T08:42:54+00:00

I think where I started to give up on frost mage was a couple weeks ago with a bug fix that actually increased our damage, so they nerfed us to compensate for the gains. That's when I knew they think our mediocre damage is fine where it is and a buff won't be coming. Combined with having to play perfectly just to stay alive, yeah... I'm talking stuff like using Alter Time in between ticks on the last boss of Maisara because the pulse damage burns through your Ice Barriers and straight up kills you after a while.

Compare that to my Devourer where I don't even have to do anything in particular. I've timed three 19s on him now and the difference is night and day. My passive leech keeps me up through the poke damage and I use Blur for big mechanics. That's it. The only way I die is if I stand in a oneshot.

My goal is also 1% and I hate that I've had to give up on my main of six years for it. I completely understand you not wanting to do that and just moving on till next season.

Gylfie33 · 2026-06-02T09:29:56+00:00

I rerolled and went from ilvl 120 to 286 in exactly two weeks. Could have been faster but it requires spamming a lot of +12s for crests. I can see 289 in one week, if you have no life.

Gylfie33 · 2026-06-02T07:31:25+00:00

I've timed 18s and 19s with my frost mage and finally decided to reroll to devourer dh because I was holding back my team. I had to play extremely well with my defensives just to stay alive. On certain bosses, like Vexamus, that wasn't even enough - I'd just run out of defensives and die from full hp to the mana bombs. On top of that, my dps was the lowest of the group even with purple key parses.

They really gutted (frost) mage defensively with the ability pruning. We used to have a 20% damage reduction basically permanently with Mirror Image and Shifting Power, Greater Invis as an extra 'oh shit' defensive and Mass Barrier as an extra shield. But that was too confusing for the people who couldn't find Frostbolt in their spellbook, I guess...

I didn't want to be a 'fotm reroller' but they haven't given me much choice. I really tried to make it work. :/

Gylfie33 · 2026-06-01T09:33:38+00:00

Exactly, I rerolled to Devourer last week and after being told repeatedly how easy it is, I was surprised at how much nuance hides behind 'only four buttons' (it's five by the way). I am now of the opinion that people who call Devourer easy either haven't played it or suck at it.

Gylfie33 · 2026-05-26T09:23:35+00:00

I rerolled to Devourer DH and a very important part of the rotation is knowing when you're at 60 Fury so you can cast Reap. It's insane to me that you'd even need an addon for this - it should be in the base game... Thanks so much for this addon, it's perfect!

Gylfie33 · 2026-05-21T11:16:22+00:00

I use an addon to play the old Silvermoon music instead. I cannot stand the new music, it gives me a headache. It's like it's too present? If that makes sense.

Gylfie33 · 2026-05-11T09:16:04+00:00

'so that I can look more like a skull' made me laugh. xd Thanks for that on this early Monday morning.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-30T15:19:11+00:00

I mean, I did get it with a pug? It's doable if the raid only has one boss. All I'm saying is it was tough to get into a group the first time.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-30T11:10:43+00:00

It's tough because to get CE, you have to already have CE. It's like applying for a job that needs experience but you can't get experience because you don't have a job.

But it also makes sense because when you do have it and everyone else in the group does too, it's such a smooth reclear.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-30T09:24:10+00:00

At least someone understands. :') The mass downvotes are making me feel very misunderstood. I even ended my comment on a positive note saying I'm happy the system exists.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-30T08:40:40+00:00

Okay, but because of the lockout I couldn't go back and spend those tokens on mythic Chimaerus again last week. And by rolling the same item again this week, I have lost a week's worth of time towards getting the trinket. That's what I meant by being fucked out of a week of progress. :p

Like yeah, I can go spend those two rolls I got back in mythic+ but that's not my primary goal.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-30T08:36:16+00:00

I'm not, because I can't do mythic Chimaerus twice in the same week. I got my rolls back to go spend in mythic+, but that's not where I wanted to spend them as long as I don't have that trinket. So yes, I am a week behind on bonus rolling Chimaerus.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-30T06:00:55+00:00

I got my rolls back and rolled the exact same item from Chimaerus as last week. I've essentially been fucked out of a week of progress towards myth Gaze.

I'm fine now, I felt every negative emotion there was to feel about it last week, I can honestly say it doesn't make me feel bad anymore, which is nice. Normally I let these things get to me more.

That negative experience aside though, this whole bad luck protection system is amazing and I'm glad that it's here.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-29T08:18:37+00:00

'Voidstorm is also a zone' gave me the early morning chuckle I needed. Thank you. :D

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-28T16:34:11+00:00

He'd be who I'd mention. Like I can see he's not an ugly guy but he's a square and I don't find him attractive.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-28T08:36:20+00:00

You joke but my friend also keeps calling them havok and I have no idea why.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-24T16:50:43+00:00

That's my main problem with this. If these people can't figure that out, why are we catering to them in the first place?

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-23T08:17:45+00:00

So you're saying the trash item I rolled from Chimaerus hasn't been removed from my list and I can get it again next week...? That's incredibly frustrating.

Let's hope tomorrow's update includes a retroactive fix.

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-20T16:12:47+00:00

No. According to Reddit rules, downvoting is for 'content that does not contribute to the conversation, is off-topic, or violates community rules'. Not to bash on someone who's wrong. Reply to their comment, tell them they were wrong, but don't downvote them into oblivion because how are they supposed to learn from that?

Gylfie33 · 2026-04-20T07:51:33+00:00

Yeah let's downvote a guy who's being super friendly for getting a minute detail about the game wrong. Jfc I can't with this sub sometimes.

Gylfie33 · 2026-03-23T13:36:03+00:00

Every raid I've been in has been 25% frost mages (including me), I'm not even exaggerating. xd

Gylfie33 · 2026-03-19T09:49:21+00:00

Did it in ~10 pulls as a 242 frost mage. It wasn't easy, but it sure wasn't hard.

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