WOTLK Phase 2 Mage BIS Gearing Compendium

hey everyone welcome back and here's my best gearing guide for phase two from ages uh first I just kind of give you a little overview of what I'm going to go over first I'll be talking about uh why there isn't a 25-man normal only this list and why that just doesn't make sense we'll talk about that then I'm gonna go over the different PPS differences of the different specs as well as different gearing paths I.E for Star short Edge versus staff and just some other things so you can kind of see the DPS differences and then use grass for that provided from Safari 94 so you can thank him for that once again as well as a histogram provided from him giving us some interesting information in regards to differences between the specs so check that out I'm then going to go over four different sets for each of the different three specs so Arcane f b and fire torment the week and the four different sets are actual Biz versus realistic this and then star Shard Edge versus hodir staff so all together 12 different sets there and their best differences to give kind of an overview for each of those ones and then after that I'm going to go in depth on each slot using the realistic staff set for going going in depth on each of those different slots and then finally I'll cover what I'm thinking about for that's my best as well as a kind of an optimal gearing path and I also just have sections on some 10 man items to be looking out for some 25-man items to be looking out for and then which items also carry into phase three there's still bits even for phase three this all right so first I want to talk about why there isn't a 25-man normal only business list and if you already understand business and you don't care about this um you don't need to hear this part then yeah skip ahead to the other sections but for those of you who are wondering why the reason is because you know business the way abyssless works is it's the combination of items that gives you the value of it being this okay um so and a lot of it has to do with hit and finding the right combination of everything to give you the most DPS the value of one item will change based on the other items that are on that character and so for 25 men normal only those a lot of those items can look a lot different then when you start to include hard modes even just some hard modes and you're going to be incrementally Inc doing the hard mode fights over as the phase progresses that's the whole point and so the whole point of the business list is so that you're going to work towards it to get it have those items by the end of the phase you're not expected to get it right away if you try and use a 25-man normal only business for just the first few weeks it's going to bait you into getting items that are going to be not worthwhile later on you know like chess tier HS is what we're going to be using later on but uh maybe this chest robes is the umbral brute is actually what's going to be used in a 25-man normal only but that doesn't make sense because your guild should be gearing out people with tier that are going to need that and use that in the long run so that that gets most efficiently put out for those first you know a number of weeks where everyone still needs tier and so if you use this instead of the chest then it just doesn't make sense because then you're taking tier in another slot that you're not going to need later on as you start to clear the hard modes that's just one example but there's many okay so that's why you know go through the different sections I have for each of the different slots pay attention to some of the things that I point out as you know good upgrades or alternates and things like that you can pick up those items and then let the other items go to other people because other you're going to just replace them later on and it'll just be kind of a waste going to you once you have those hard modes now sure that's the case for a lot of people with the hard modes but that's why you just pay attention to what's actually going to make sense for you uh the ones that I mentioned like hey pick this up if it's not rotting but that's it you don't want to go for a 25-man normal only bissells also because like there's just so many different combinations of business that you could have like do you know with 10 mans and 10 man hard modes for that 25 man normal only this list do I include 10 mans do I include 10 man hard bones do I include just half the 10 man hard modes do I include all the 10 man hard modes uh and then also you know you're gonna am I making this for a guild that's going to be doing just some hard modes or do I you know or is it are they going to do all the 25 man hard modes by the end of it all of them except algalon because again it comes down to the combination of items so each those best lists could look a little bit different and so everyone should be progressing and trying to get down all the hard modes now your guild might not get all of them done by the end of the phase so again that's going to come down to you figuring out what's realistic for your guild what are they going for first for the hard modes what do you guys thinking you're going to and then just tailoring that set based on those expectations but it's not something that you know in that case can't make a business list for every single different guilds expectations of where they plan to get to by the end of the phase it just doesn't make sense and business they work on that combination of items you gotta understand that there isn't just some number one item hard mode and then and you've got 25 man only then there's just then the next item is this for 25 minutes no it could be a number of different items based on the other items and what other you know what other items are available for the other slots in the pool you have to understand that so it's not just so that easy it could be a number of different items and it's figuring out the different combination of all the different items that are available so it's it's not something that you can just easily make like that so that's why you have to just kind of plan towards the end game the end phase and just just tailor it for your guild and what their expectations are and go through the rest of the guide you know listen to kind of some of the items I I mentioned and everything and you should be able to figure that out um anything hit me up during stream I can help you out that's the best time to ask me questions but good luck that's that's why I'm not making it and that's why other guide makers are not making a bunch of other business for all these different things it's too much it's already enough having to do it for two different weapon gearing paths and also three different specs like that right there has been a pain in the ass yeah doing it for like then also like non-hard mode and like which hard ones do you include what about 10 mans 25 minutes it's it's too much like it's not possible so first for those who haven't seen this sheet which I talked about in my previous video this sheet was developed by Savari 94 and you can see it's just a DPS comparison of the different specs in Phase 2 this um they're basically the the gist is that Arcane is ahead of fire and that fire versus uh fire tournament week versus ffb you have to decide that for your own it depends on your situation I discussed this in the previous video in the aldoir specs video there's a guide and a section on that so check that out but the bottom line is that it comes down to your situation as far as how easy you're going to be able to gear up fire tournament the week who your focus magic Target is if you're getting the focus magic yourself Etc so all those things are going to play into whether you should go fire charm or tweak in ffb and I'll also be talking about the different sets here and which I recommend spoilers it's going to be FP just because it's easier to gear towards Arcane and ffb simultaneously but that could be different for your situation you can gear towards Arcane and fire tournament week but it's going to depend on your situation and how loot is flowing and Luke Prime and everything like that so you have to talk to your guild you're gonna have to you have to think a little bit on on it there's no you know just easy answer I can give you and then down here and this is obviously is linked in the description um you can see that there's different comparisons for Arcane frostfire and fire for different gearing paths and the purpose of this is just to show that the DPS difference between these different gearing paths really isn't that big or at least to show it and then the point is that it's really not that big so for here for instance SS refers to Star Shard so this is the algalon weapon so this is actual best basically for Arcane that's the DPS there here's obviously a graph as well we see Star Shard tier 8 two-piece which is the actual bis versus staff actual this so if you win staff instead of star shards right everyone's a star chart Edge the DPS difference is only about 40 DPS for staff actual this versus Star Shard actual this and obviously actual this not using um tier 84 piece that's obviously you're getting a lot you're getting three off pieces there that could be a little unrealistic so if you go to a more realistic comparison star Shard and tier eight four piece versus staff tier 84 piece then you're only looking at about a 20 DPS difference so staff is not a bad option and spoilers again uh that is actually what I'll be recommending to go just because it's an easier gearing path I'm not saying you should go that way um you know starshard is still viable way depends on your loot situation but that this is just showing the DPS differences between these different gearing paths and then similarly for frostfire we can see that and for fire now for fire uh tier 84 piece is just better than tier a two-piece the off pieces don't outweigh the tier 8 4 piece bonus um so that makes this a little simpler as far as a comparison so then it just comes down to starshard tier 84 piece for staff you guys can't see it because my I'm blocking it uh star shark tier 84 piece versus staff tier 84 piece which is only which is you know a little bit more of a significant difference uh you're looking at about 100 DPS um but nothing too crazy and then for frostfire uh star Shard tier 84 piece versus staff tra4 piece only about a 20 some dpsd difference so the you know if you go staff frostfire is not a bad choice um but if you're going star Shard maybe you do go fire tournament the week that just has to do with scaling hit and some other things and then here the reason with people have asked this a lot since I this sheet obviously has been circulating before this video came out I've been asking you know why is it that tier 82 piece is better than tier 84 piece for frostfire build uh the main reason is because that well one your pyroblast and is not benefiting from torment the week with frostfire builds all right so your pyroblast um the four piece bonus isn't benefiting frostfire build as much as benefiting fire the other reason is that frostfire bill doesn't need to hit as much as fire tournament the week right because Frost fire bolt double dips from Precision so the extra hit on the tier pieces doesn't do frostfire that much good in comparison it's better to have those off pieces with the juicy stats and to drop some of that hit um then frostfire just because frostfire doesn't need as much hit as fire torment a week those are the big reasons and that yeah just the main thing is also just the four piece bonus just doesn't do as much for ffb as it does for fire and the off pieces are just 20 item levels higher than the tier pieces so those are juicy stats um and so that those juicy stats just outweigh the four piece bonus for frostfire build now it's still maybe unrealistic to get those off pieces to expect to get them right you probably should just be Rock expecting to be rocking tier eight four pieces ffp but actual this is actual bits so we still have to at least talk about it and another thing that a safari has added to the spreadsheet is a histogram showing that the different SIM iterations for fire from the week frostfire and Arcane and the big takeaway here is that the Arcane curve is just a lot more tight and so it's going to be a lot more consistent in hitting it's closer to its averages while the frostfire and fire they have a lot more variants right it's a lot flatter of a curve and because of that flatness you can see that there are times when fire tournament's weak you know it's high end can be performing as good as arcane's high end right if this was a lot tighter of a curve then you wouldn't necessarily have that in arcane's top end wouldn't be able to match but fire and frostfire are flatter and so if you get lucky with it it can perform as well but on average Arcane is definitely going to be performing uh more consistently and more consistently better than fire tournament the week and frostfire which I know does not seem to make much sense because of emberage missile barrage or RNG but it that that's what the Sim is showing and so as long as you just trust in missile gambling um you know that that is the case and so it's just uh it's a unfortunate truth that we have to acknowledge now if we're talking about the different sets I have them all kind of lined up here at the top there's you know 12 different ones again like I mentioned before it's going to be going into the two different weapon gearing paths so starshard Edge versus staff and then it's also going to be going into all three specs for those so 12 total and I'm doing it that's always going to be Arcane ffb then fire torment the week as I'm clicking through these and talking about them and first I'm going to be going over actual this then I'll be going into star Shard bathing but more realistic as opposed to actual best more realistic this then it'll be going into staff realistic and then from staff realistic I'll touch on the differences between staff realistic and staff actual this now first for actual this I mean I don't know exactly what there is necessarily to say here because I don't think this set really applies to anyone other than the people who are just like huge loot cores or that are in gdkp and you got a lot of gold and so you're just able to buy everything in which case you know the links are going to be in the description you can just pull them up and just buy as you go uh so you know there's not really too much to talk about here because it doesn't really apply to too many people but actual business is actual best so we gotta touch on it at least a little the big things here for uh Arcane ffp and fire torment the week is that you know for ffp and Arcane again they have that tier 8 two-piece and then they're using off pieces and for the off pieces it's Helm it's crown of luminescence and then also obviously gloves now everything all of them use for their off-piece pretty much ferals gloves for the most part um for the most part but uh you know Arcane and ffb are also using uh the helm like I mentioned which is uh from mimrod hard mode and leggings of the enslaved Idol which are from Freya hard mode um and that's just again because of the reasons I previously stated and then for the tier 82 pieces yeah it's obviously shoulders and chest and the differences between these you know there's there's a little bit of boots differences which is just very minor these for fire and ffb Treads of the false Oracle and Boots of fiery resolution very similar within 10 DPS DPS of each other it's not just a minor thing um the other big thing though is that ffp and fire tournament the week one pendant of fiery Havoc the flame Leviathan hard mode neck while Arcane wants the sapphire versus the iron console hard mode neck because it doesn't have any hit on it so if Arcane doesn't need that with star sharding Cosmos both providing so much hit and the other thing the other difference to mention is that for uh fire charm of the week it's of course using tier 84 piece and then these are all obviously for horde and that's because even as a lines you don't necessarily really know if you're going to get a drain eye and get that heroic presence the one percent hit if you are going to get that one percent hit though um the main thing that you're going to do for the ffb and the Arcane sets is you can just drop petrified Ivy sprig and you can pick up scepter of lost souls instead so the Petrified Ivy sprig is from Freya hard mode 10 man and so most people should be able to get that from doing 10 mans um I'm still going to be a little contested though of course because a number of people want it um but then if you're Alliance and you're able to get that and you got everything else then scepter of lost souls that's a great item to just be able to switch between it if you're getting heroic presence or not getting it and this just drops from normal mode General Basics not too many people need it at most people their petrified Ivy sprig is their best but atmosphere Alliance a lot of people are probably going to want this just because it's an easy item to swap in if you don't need the hit all right so even though I mentioned previously that I recommend people go staff let's say You're Gonna Go Star Shard Edge you just really want it or you're just the ordained person to get it obviously somebody has to get it whatever the reason may be you know I get it you know it's an RPG you want a star chart Edge it's a cool looking weapon I understand I'm the same way I might go star chart Edge I haven't fully decided yet I really think staff's kind of the way but you know maybe you do you you want to do star Shard Edge it works for your situation whatever it may be okay so then star Shadows you want to go more realistic here's the more realistic I know you're looking at this and right away you're thinking uh this has tier a two-piece it still has off pieces that doesn't make sense how is this more realistic all right well bear with me so caller the wormhunter is from Ross from Razor scale it's item level 232 but it's definitely better than the item level 232 tier 8 uh Helm so you know this has a lot of hit that Arcane doesn't need this has uh less hit and also a ton of haste instead of the spirit that the tier VII Helm has on it and no one else really needs this it's just if anything just an off-piece that people could use but no one else can use enough like no one's it's people are are gonna rather use their tier 8 Helm most likely than this from what I understand right it's only Arcane where we get like no benefit from our four piece for the most part um that you know this would be better so this is just a free thing that you could probably get and then you could use it for Arcane instead of using the tier VII Helm and it's just a nice Aloft piece leggings the enslaved Idol I know that that's again that that seems like a 252 uh off-piece that you know other people should want but if you go to the fusion uh here we go the fusion trial spreadsheet you can see that there really isn't any other casters other than boomies that want leggings of the slave title so even though they'll probably get the first leggings of the enslaved idol most likely um if you just have one boom kit in there if it drops again good chance you can get it then so this isn't unrealistic this is pretty this is fairly realistic now obviously crown of luminescence that's you know warlocks need that other people need that um you're already as Mage for at least for Fusion when it comes to off pieces we're already getting proud pharaohs gloves so also getting Pro pry out something like current luminescence very unlikely right um especially because for this for Star Shard you're already getting if you are going the star shark route then you're getting two algalon weapons starshard and Cosmos as opposed to uh and also then ferals uh you know you're looking at a lot of algalon loot there and so for you to also then get chronologized it's very unlikely but caller of the wormhunter and leggings that's actually not um too unrealistic and then Pharaoh's gloves you know this we're doing it proud because it's just the benefits uh fire Mage the most it just benefits Mages really well uh Arcane is always also really good for and then fire Mages it's huge just because hey Stan crit are both really good for fire they both scale pretty evenly so this is just gives it benefits the Mage the most so there's a good chance that if you're also playing fire that you could be benefited as and you could be playing fire in the future so if your guild cares about you playing fire in the future which it should good chance you should be proud of these um so that's not necessarily unrealistic and then as far as other items you know this is just standard stuff I'm going to talk about I'll go into more detail for each piece and slotting in the future I'm just trying to touch on some different things that are specific to this set and then the ffe set the reason that this is more realistic I call it the quote unquote realistic version this is kind of just my take on what I think is realistic again it's realistic it's not actual this right so don't come at me like oh I've seemed a little higher with it like yeah I know this is supposed to be something realistic you can then go um this exact same loot for ffb right they use the exact same as you can see here but the only difference being tier 84 piece for ffp versus that uh those off pieces for the Arcane which again those off pieces are essentially free now boots of fiery resolution are a little bit better for Arcane they're like you know say 30 DPS but for um but they're also a lot more contested so Treads of the false Oracle are going to be just easier to get and as far as ffb uh Treads of the false Oracle are about equivalent for to the boots fire resolution they're within 10 dbps of each other so you could go either and so because these are with our prior sheet and the way we're doing the uh Jag Saran loot um we're probably tries of the false Oracle to fire or to Mage and then um it's boomi and Nelly because for resolution you have warlocks and uh Shadow priests that need that so it's just more realistic if you go the Treads of the fossil Oracle route again could be different for your situation though so if that's the case if it's easier for you to get boots of flame Leviathan and go that route and then as you can see for fire torment of the week fire Tournament of the week does need the flame Leviathan neck and it also needs the hit cloak okay just because even with star Shard and the extra hit when you're using four piece and everything it still needs more hit so that's this is kind of the issue with going for Arcane and fire torment a week There's advantages to fire torment the week it just makes gearing a little more difficult right fire tournaments we can pick up that magic absorption again I talked about it in the previous video so check that out as far as the differences but it is more annoying to gear it up so it kind of just comes down to how your guild is going to be doing Loop prial and if it's you know reasonable for you get pendant of fiery Havoc um even with other people needing it this cloak is actually less contested than the algalon cloak according to our Loop Pro but um you know for Arcane that's a that's a lot of hit that you don't need is the only thing so there's just some some things to think about as far as what to do for your situation now as for reasons why I prefer staff over star Shard I guess I'll talk about them here and the main reason is is because well one um it's just a lot of hit from these two items and turning tide doesn't have any hit so you know going from turning tide to Star Shard might be a little difficult with your hit situation while staff doesn't have any hit on at all so it's a lot easier to just go straight from turning tide to staff now you're offhand from next you know you might be using Matrix spawn which doesn't have it but you also might be using Surplus limb which does have hit and so you know sure yes you're going from some hit to less by going from turning tide with that Surplus limb to the hodir staff however it's not that much hit you could probably make it up for someone it's a little different with star Shard Edge the other thing is starshard Edge is not better than hodir staff the 252 one of course I'm talking about 25 man until you get Cosmos and uh H7 actually shows item level there are no other 252 off hands it's just Cosmos okay and so even if you had iron mender or something like that a 232 one it's still going to be performing worse until you get Cosmos and you can also make good use of the hit on both starshard Edge and that offhand Okay so it's just a lot more difficult to make stuff it's gonna it's more of the long run right the long-term play to make starshard Edge and Cosmos work and outplay staff essentially additionally you're talking about two algalon items right there now I know starshard Edge also drops remember on but right people don't look at it like that okay so they're gonna look at it like it's a hell of a lot so if you're getting two items from algalon and then you're also trying to get Pharaoh's gloves and star Watchers binding you know good luck and also you know when it comes to those right again we look at item level here there's hand wraps of the Vigilant but they don't compare to Pharaoh's gloves okay Pharaoh's gloves are just super good they're like 120 GPS above 100 Vigilant now they're less contested so you could go hand wraps of the Vigilant if you wanted to if you're off piece your glove off piece but Ferro Scopes are way better and if you're getting star Shard Edge and Cosmos good chance you're not also going to get Pharaoh's gloves and not also going to get star Watchers money unless you're in a gdkp you're able to kind of you're out playing everyone in your guild so they're fine with you taking whatever I don't know it'd be kind of just a very uh un atypical scenario for it to be the case because then star Watchers binding is also algalon Luke right and it's again the only belt that is 252 everything else to 20 levels 20 item levels lower um now say activation power is actually really good if you can make use of the hit but still you're just you're talking about something if you're getting these two it's a good chance you're not getting used to and so you know getting these and not getting these versus staff getting you know staff plus these two the staff is going to win every time so starshard edges and Cosmos go into starshard route it it can work in the long run by the time phase three gets here I think it could you could even out to if you go on staff depending on your gearing situation or whatever but just know that staff is going to ramp up has a lot faster than star chart Edge just because of just the way loot is and how it's going to go um given these things that I've talked about and it has the potential to just in the long term also outplay starshard edge with just because of that gearing pathy right so those are just some things to keep in mind and why I'm not the biggest fan of starshard edge unless you have the ability to drop a bunch of fat cash at gdkp you know like something like what I do right I run my own splits so I'll get some main right items and then towards the end of the phase if I still need some items I can go to a gdkp and I can buy those last big items that I wouldn't get because I've already received a fair amount of loot or vice versa I could start the phase in the dkp buy up a bunch of stuff and then join the main raid so that's just you know something to keep in mind and those are kind of the reasons why I do think that staff is a better option than star Shard Edge and Cosmos but I get it if you want to get those too you know they're cool weapons maybe you're not super into min max that's not all about the numbers I get it it's also an RPG you gotta enjoy it and I guess that's a good time to also just touch on why I think that Arcane and ffp is the way to go because I've already been kind of talking about it some and yeah it mainly just comes down to that gearing situation it's just really hard to or it's just more difficult to gear for both Arcane and fire torment the week optimally right if you do Arcane and ffb both sets can be gaining kind of at the same time and your bolster your sets are going to be looking good now there's some differences right like um for instance you know you're still gonna have to make the choice of like if you're going Treads of the false Oracle because you're going to be able to get those versus uh boots fiery resolution you know it doesn't really matter which one you go for fire but boots of fire resolution are a little better for Arcane so there's little things like that there's little concessions you'll have to make just because you know you can't get all your full bits like a utsify resolution or super contestant and these aren't it's just better to go these and just accept the fact that yeah these are about 30 DPS less for Arcane but that just kind of is what it is um but the concessions when you're going for both Arcane and fire torment the week can just kind of suck because you're gonna have to get hit gear you kind of have to get the hit gear for fire charm of the week that Arcane just doesn't need um and depending on which way you're going again we're talking about star Shard here where you're going to want Sun glimmer for Arcane uh you'll see in some of the latest stats I do actually recommend draping mortal downfall just because it's an easier more realistic gearing path um in a sense but you know this has crit on it that Arcane doesn't need and so if you're going star Shard and you have to get this then your Arcane set's gonna suffer so you're kind of just choosing which one's going to suffer and right now in aldoir you kind of use both um you know the way I look at it you there's four fights that you use fire on and the rest you use Arcanine and then that could change in the future as fights get shorter or whatnot uh but you know firefighter Freya oh dear and yogg I definitely view fire as being better and we'll see with togc and whatnot but I still see this being the case where some fights are going to be Arcane and some fights are going to be fire going forward and so you know I think you should you're playing art Mage optimally you'll have both sets you'll have ready to play both specs you have a set for each and that's what you're gonna do and it's just a lot easier to do Arcane and ffp now your situation might be different maybe you just really like fire tournaments a week you want to make sure you get focused magic for that person even if it means one year sets is going to suffer I get it sure and go for it um but my recommendation is just Arcane and FB just because it's a lot easier because otherwise you're gonna have to be doubling up on items in order to do this for both and that just to me doesn't seem realistic I can't recommend a realistic this set for both Arcane and fire torment the week without one taking a hit right it just doesn't exist right you just one needs pendant and drape and the other one doesn't and depending on which way you go you're going to take a hit in the chances of you getting both necks and both cloaks extremely unlikely unless you're in a unique situation such as going to gkp and buying both or whatever it may be so that's just kind of why I think Arcane FMB is is just the way to go because ffb and fire tournaments a week are already very close on DPS it comes down to your situation with Focus magic and everything and even if you have full Biz fire Tournament of the week and full biz ffp uh and you have a better focus magic Target with tournaments a week it's still only 100 DPS ahead then and if you don't have a good Focus magic Target fire department is only about 50 DPS ahead and it requires just a lot more gearing right because you're or at least if you go full fire four minutes a week then your Arcane side is going to be suffering well with ffp it's not your Arcane is set is not going to have suffered and it's still going to be pumping so that's just overall why I recommend going Arcane ffp or why I like that um it's just a lot easier to gear towards it and I can't really do good recommendations for both gearing towards Arcane and fire tournament week you're just gonna have to accept some concessions if you decide to go that route it's up to you again but yeah so now I'm going to talk about the set that I really kind of recommend is which is the staff realistic base set because I just think it's the easiest gearing path out of the bunch to go um and I'm also going to talk about staff actual just so you can see the differences there and just kind of just go over it as a whole and then I'm going to go into each slot in depth using the staff realistic sets so first thing to mention just with the staff realistic sets is you can see that it's got It's using the two piece that I've kind of explained before again that collar of the wormhunter is not too hard to get because it's razor scale no one else really needs it people are other people are going to be using their chair eight Helm so this shouldn't go to them because this is something that you actually could just use for the rest of the game as Arcane because it's unlikely you'll get Chrono Lubin Essence and then although I'll come back to that on the Chrono luminescence part uh and then Legends of the slave title the Freya 25 band hard mode like I mentioned before but in case you didn't already watch um for that loot you know it's going to well actually Mage first but I'd say you could go to the boomi first because we're already getting some other stuff up that that's just me but yeah uh okay so I believe even if it is going to the boomi first right then that that's still just uh you probably just have one boobkin in the raid there's still a good chance that you could get these after the boomkin so it's not unrealistic to plan to get these okay um some other things to mention you know you want to get the hit cloak and that's the reason that's the realistic choice is because not as many people need this this the algalon cloak though however a lot of people need that I mean kind of most everyone right and it's going to be proud physical first because they don't have a Caster piece like we do the only other Caster one is pay for Mortal downfall and so it'd be you know just a while waiting especially if you're not killing algalon pretty early in the phase unlikely you'd get this before phase three right well there's a chance that you could get this so triple mortal downfall is the way to go for there it's just more realistic than trying to get the algalon cloak um the DPS neck just because this is very contested and if you just go with this gearing route then you don't need the hit on the neck but on that out said I'd come back to it so Chrono luminescence if there's a chance that you can get this which is unlikely with just getting getting everything else but if there is a chance you can get this then that means you won't have the hit from Colorado worm Hunter so you will want the flame Leviathan neck so you know Dr dear Guild again if you're getting all this other stuff then unlikely you can get this and this is kind of the best most recommended gearing path based on the loop pile that you know Fusion has done for a spreadsheets just as well as just in general um so I wouldn't go I wouldn't switch it up and go Chrono luminescence instead of some of these other off pieces but if you can get Chrono luminescence as well for whatever reason maybe you just hop out for a weekend I don't know whatever your situation is just make sure then you do want to go the flame Leviathan neck and so this is where I'll actually then switch over to the actual close actual this so if you're going to be using Crown luminescence then yeah you want to get the flame Leviathan neck and what you can also then do is you can use go the algaline cloak route now again that's if you're getting counter luminescence I assume maybe you can get this and use sash of ancient power actually instead of the star Watchers binding so then there's one last algalon loot you need so maybe you can use a outside of the the belt could I get the cloak because the cloak's kind of you know just drops every week in a way because it's a quest item and if that's the case then yeah go this route so this is the actual this for going staff and it is a Fairmont DPS higher than the realistic um the the one you're seeing here but again it needs to get that crown illuminescence and then you have to go to the flame Leviathan neck so there's just some differences in it that make it much more difficult you are looking at a fair amount more DPS uh under 100 but you know up to 100 but it's more it's gonna be a lot more difficult right so you have to you have to look at what's realistic because if you aim for actual this and you shoot way lower than what you could have gotten by just aiming for realistic and that's not that doesn't do you any good other things to mention here um I'm gonna I'll go into each piece you know a number of these you've seen have just been the same across the board and that's because there's no other Alternatives like there is no other 252 belt there's no other 252 bracer you know Etc the two two boots are the flame Leviathan boots and these um again you could go either of these if this is less contested then I recommend boots if I re resolution because they're better for Arcane and both of these Sim about the same for fire drama tweak and ffp but trans is a false lower car less contested so that's why it's the more realistic option uh star Watchers binding again you know unrealist not necessarily realistic but there's nothing else to put on here right um when I go through each slot here I'll talk about Alternatives and everything like that or each slot until you get this this piece but there really just isn't any other alternative to put here guys it just kind of is what it is all right that's Arcane ffp as you can see the reason this is also once again realistic is because there isn't really any differences the only thing is those two two off pieces like I said FP is then going to use four piece because that's just realistic um on that note obviously as you saw with uh we look at ffb actual this it uses chronoluminescence and leggings the enslaved Idol but again that's heavy only once you get both those off pieces is it better for ffp it's not like you if you have leggings of enslaved Idol you still just use four piece until you would get chronoluminescence and um additionally color the wormhunter isn't good enough you can't do what Arcane does which is uh Arcane can use there we go collar of the wormhunter and leggings with enslaved Idol and just use two-piece tier eight that's not better for ffp ffp would instead just use 4p it's not until you get two well really three but you know got two two item level 252 pieces to replace your legs and your Helm that that becomes better for ffp than using tier 84b so it's very unrealistic for ffb to not be running tier 84 piece um so here's so again the only difference between the Arcane and ffp realistic staff uh gearing is just just those off pieces for the helm and the legs which I covered and I just aren't that unrealistic fire term of the week however if you're gonna go fire charm of the week with staff then actually you end up not using Pharaoh's gloves um which you know isn't the worst thing in terms of being realistic for gearing because tier 8 gloves not that hard to get um and then it uses leggings of the enslaved Idols but it does still need hit cloak and the uh hit neck so if you're going the staff realistic route you are getting the the cloak but you're not getting that neck right and making up that hit elsewhere a little difficult to do because you're already using petrified Ivy Sprague if you're Alliance and you're getting the one percent hit buff then that makes it a little easier but again this is why like I mentioned before I like going Arcane and ffb just because it makes the gearing way easier because that he double dips and so you can just be somewhere between that eight to eleven percent and that's usually pretty good as you see here for ffp yes you are at eight point four six six percent right I know someone's going to point that out to me like aren't you under hit cap yes okay you your pyroblast and your living bomb can miss here okay but it's still this just seems better and it's just a realistic base wise than having to go a different route right it loses value past eight percent for ffb because it's no longer benefiting your main uh nuke ability and if you don't understand why that is then check out my FP double dips video which is that it gained six percent hit from Precision for frostfire bull as opposed to uh just three percent like everything else and so that that's why and if you you know if you can get the flame Leviathan neck great go for it um that's gonna help out your ffb it's gonna make up some of that hit it's gonna be better um and then that does oops that does open you up to the possibility of getting kind of luminescence in the future probably not gonna happen um but you know you could go that route and it'll boost up your ffb and not be too much of a hit on your Arcane because uh pendant fire Havoc isn't necessarily bad even if you're not using the hit it's it's only like a 30 DPS worse than the sapphire so even if you're not using this hit as the Arcane build it's only like 30 some DPS worse than the sapphire the problem is though again very contested to get pendant of fiery habit so unlikely that you're going to be able to it's just easier to try and go the Sapphire Route and the hit cloak then um to be trying to go for the pen and fire Havoc is just based on our Loop trial situation what I think you know a lot of people follow that fusion blue sheet the prior sheet so it's kind of probably is going to be realistic for you too but maybe your situation could be different so again make sure you're checking into that and then yeah if you get pendant of fire Havoc that also you could then opens up the possibility of going fire tournaments a week in the future if you need to for togc for magic absorption or whatever it may be because if you do a pen in the fire Havoc then it's just a simple uh switching out your gloves even if you do have ferrous gloves you could just then go the tier 8 gloves for that hit from them and you'd be able to actually make the hit work for Firestorm of the week um differences between actual this and and the realistic aren't really there just because it kind of just is what it is but there is the differences obviously for ffp and Arcane which is that chronoluminescence and whatnot all right and now to go through each of the different slots I'm going to actually utilize the OC Bell Sim and the main reason for that is 80 upgrades is great I love it as a gear planner and everything however until they have a way to be able to sort gear by phase and also item level it's just uh not very helpful to like look at you know all these different bracers and everything um and same with like the weapons it it's not as helpful as if I go to the Sim you can see that the item level for each of them so you can get an idea of like oh okay this is this drops from 10 man hard mode and these ones are obviously dropping from uh 25 man hard mode and this is the phase that they're in and just kind of all that information you can just kind of quickly do that if you don't know this gearing just yet and then also for this I'm uh I'll turn off my webcam because I'm covering up part of it so yeah now I'm going to use this to kind of just go through each of the different slots and uh also no I don't normally have this this big I usually have it you know normal like this but for the sake of the video right we're gonna have those big I'm not actually an old man so first for weapon there's definitely a number of other weapons that you can get before like as upgrades before you get your staff members winter or star chart Edge depending on which uh gearing path that you're going um 238 weapons are from normal 25 man normal and the 245 or from 10 man hard mode and then the 225 are from 10 man normal bottom line is you know I'll just kind of touch on my click I guess so runescribe Blade and Soul scribe are both 25-man normal um straight upgrades from turning tide you're looking at 120 DPS increase from using runescribe blade I'm sorry Soul scribe and uh like a 90 through inscribe as Arcane over turning Tides that's kind of the caliber you're looking at and soulscribe is obviously better than runescribe for us but either one would be fine um ice core staff huge it's it's very good um if you're going the staff route this is not too far behind staff of endless winter to be honest we're only looking at about 50 DPS maybe and so very good and same with Fusion blade um this is very good as well like even if you're not using the hit this is better than soulscribing run skyblade even if you can't make use of the hit and so if you're in a 10 man and for whatever reason other people don't need this and you're still planning on going like a staff route just pick this up because then you have a hit one-hander just in case you need that in the future and you can just use that until you get your your upgrade but so talk within your guild about a good way to go about handing out these temporary weapons upgrades but obviously the best way to do it would be to Prior these to people who aren't going to be getting the first staff of endless winter the first star chart Edge right so that's how I would do that best so that just makes sense to me I would hope your guild is doing something like that too and then obviously the people who need the hit should get the hit items and there's the intensity staff which is kind of similar to the 10 man I have eternity staff or just has a ton of hit on it so if someone's using that they could just maybe get this and that's like a straight upgrade um and it just doesn't have to change their gearing around you know it'd be best to kind of just do it like that whereas people who are using hit items currently maybe get the hit items and or at least the people who are going maybe a star Shard Edge you get the hit items you can go like that too the people who aren't currently using a hit weapon get the non-hit something like that makes sense to me and then for offhanders once again guys there just isn't that much uh there's Cosmos is item level 252 and everything else it's 20 items level lower there is no other 252 offhands and things like iron mender Leviathan Philly manual while they are upgrades over something like Matrix spawn for instance with iron mender it's still only about 40 DPS increase over matriarch spawn which is still something that's definitely a an upgrade for sure but it's nothing crazy and uh that's kind of your best bet Leviathan Philly manual is a hit off hands off someone who's hit they should go to them igniter Rod crit off and so this is kind of like just a straight upgrade to Kirsten's mind just kind of think of them like that at and that's pretty much it for off-handers I would definitely give these to the people who are going to be keep staying using a one-hander than aren't going staff makes more sense to me because they're gonna probably be using it for a while because everyone needs Cosmos in there that's the only 252 high off hand so um give these to the people who are going to be using one-handers but for ranged items it's pretty straightforward petrified Ivy sprig is what we want that's our best ranged Weapon It's got the hit that we need and it's the only thing that's 245 everything else is a lowered item level and it's and also it's going to be best going into phase three are still going to be best in with phase three loot so that's just something to keep in mind as well it's got that longevity so try and get it but obviously very contested everyone needs it so something that you could use in the meantime is quartz crystal wand so maybe you try and get this and you're 25 man normal if you're going to be last on this on 10 man normal if you're doing that inside the guild you know talk with your guildies try and figure that out because obviously someone who's getting petrified Ivy spray shouldn't get the quart quartz crystal wand because this is a good hit substitute that you can use um and until you get the petrified Ivy spray and if you don't need hit off your wand then try and get the scepter of lost souls off 25-man normal General Physics and then this is also really good for Alliance players if you're getting the heroic presence you're getting that one percent hit you can swap out your petrified Ivy sprig for this it's just an easy way to be able to swap around gear depending on whether you're getting that one percent hit buff or not um nurturing touch nothing too big to kind of talk about there because it's only 225 item level but it is a little bit of an upgrade over say like wand the arch Lich for fire it's about the same as one of the archilage for Arcane scepter of creation has a little bit of a buff over one of the arcelage for Arcane and then for fire and ffb this is about a 40 DPS increase so this is good if you don't need the hit and you you know you're currently using a play igniter or wanted the archlich be a good little temporary upgrade if you're not going to be getting scepter of lost souls then you could at least get this so you know determining your guild who's getting that but scepter of lost souls is obviously the better non-hit one but this is not terrible either this is still still an upgrade until you first get the petrified Ivy sprig and yeah Helm is also pretty straightforward because for fire and ffp you're going to want your tier 8 home and you're gonna then be using tier 84 piece for Arcane obviously since it doesn't care about tier 84 piece then if you can get crown of luminescence it's the only item level 252 home and so it's very good and then ffp could use that as well as an off piece once you get the 252 leggings but that's again freaking pretty rare to get both those or at least not until later on in the phase for sure so until then for Arcane caller the wormhunter great pickup you can utilize that hit and the haste on it is very good much better than the tier VII home for Arcane but for fire and ffp once you get tier 8 Helm and um tier 84 piece you're just gonna be rocking that so don't worry too much about these other ones if you're currently using hooded rationality as you're off piece then I would say just transition to tier eight four piece and um you know transitioning to a different off piece you could also then go color straight into color of the wormhunter until you get those other tier a pieces you know for Arcane but otherwise those are the main thing for next there's obviously the two 252 necks that I've already talked about pendant of fire havoc and the sapphire amulet um there is another one but this one has MP5 on it so this is not what you're gonna go for but there is another neck to mention to talk about which is pendant to the shallow grave so this is a 239 neck drops from 25 man normal thorum and it is actually pretty good it's about 20 some DPS behind the sapphire emulated renewal for Arcane and it seems about the same as Sapphire amuleta renewal for fire and ffp so if you're going to non-hit neck this is actually a pretty good pickup the reason I didn't talk about it before is because again your Arcane is going to suffer from it to a certain extent and with the fusion Loop trial Sapphire AMOLED renewal is definitely something that you could you know if you're following that Loop trial this is something that's in the Wheelhouse of you being able to get however it is a 252 neck and you know 252 eye level item and so if your guild is going to have that count against you significantly because you know they view it as a high item level item then you know maybe talk to them and instead say hey I'd go for this pen into the shallow grave it means I can get a 252 item level item somewhere else because this seems pretty close Grant your Arcane side is going to take a little bit of a hit but it's it seems even like five DPS better for fire and ffb but that's something that's a margin of error so about the same you could think of it and so this is actually a good way to go if that is the case with your guild um you know just talk with them about it either way the main thing is that whoever is getting penned into the shallow grave shouldn't be getting this right if the people who are up for this first um should not be getting this the people who are up for these last are the one who should be getting dependent of the shallow grave and actually the people who are going Sapphire the non-hit neck are the ones who should get this so those are all things to keep in mind for neck and then also if you don't already have wormless necklace of power this is still really good uh if you don't have it you can pick up the badge neck or if you just need a way to drop hit for some reason you could also go from warmest that place the worm rest neck to a volker's charm however I mean this is this is really good so you can basically just rock this all the way until you get the pen into the shell grave or you get that huge 252 item level deck for shoulders there isn't too much to say here I mean the main thing that we want is the tier 8 whether it's tra 10 man or tier 8 25 man you could go use the tier 8 10 minutes until you get to your a25 man but tier 8 should be proud to Mage so this is and this is one of the pieces that you should go for it's chest and shoulder so this is what your guild should be prying you nothing else really matters once you get those that's what you're going to use so there really isn't too much to talk about here and likewise we could just go straight to the chest same thing for chest um you should be your guilt should be prying you these because tier VIII is best for Mages as far as the bank pieces that tier A2 piece is just really good and again for tra two-piece we go shoulder and chest so that's what you should rock you could Rock the 10 man until you get the 25 man but yeah it's pretty straightforward that's what we go for shoulder in for chest cloak outside of the 252 item level cloaks that we've already talked about as far as your gearing whichever gearing path that you're going down so there's the hit cloak from Iron Council hard mode or there's the algalon quest Club from 25 man algalon outside of those there's also another 252 cloak but it is a MP5 cloak so just ignore that one and then there's these two 232 cloaks but you can ignore them as well because Penny cloak is better than both of them by 20 some DPS depending on your spec so just get pen and cloak instead of these I want to worry about them heading clock is also now from 10 man it's a lot easier to get now so yeah I would say just go for Penn and cloak as well as there's also these 10 man cloaks Dimension which is the 10 man hit cloak that drops from algalon Ton Man and then also the 10-man algalon quest cloak which is a non-hit so both those are good options if you need hit pick this up um and then if you're if you don't need hit if you want a straight upgrade from Penny cloak Sun glimmer drape is pretty good it's not as much of an upgrade for fire and ffp it's only like five DPS more than pending cloak because Penn and cloak has crit and haste and both those are really good for fire and ffp however crit's not that great for Arcane so the sun glimmer drape is an upgrade from pennant club for Arcane only about 25 DPS but still if uh people in your time man don't need it or you're not being proud on one of the 252 cloaks then you should get this and then yeah it's a nice little upgrade and to put in perspective this is about 40 DPS worse than the 252 cloak from Avalon quest uh so it's it's not that much worse so definitely something to pick up in your 10 mans as you're going along Racers is also pretty straightforward just because there's only one item level 252 and it's non-hit it's the grass of reason from XT hard mode and outside of that everything else seems worse as far as non-hit so you're going to be using unsullied cuffs and if you don't already have them they're going to be easier to pick up now with 25 man dropping more lewd and 10 man dropping 25 man load for knacks and sarth and eoe so just go pick these up until you can do XD hard mode and get the grass of reason if you do need hit you can get these off cologarn 25 man normal races on leash magic they are pretty good if you do need the hit so figure out who needs hitting your raid and then priorities accordingly if you're someone who needs hit right now then yeah pick these up they're going to be pretty good um but the best in slot is secret reason nothing comes close and you're just going to rock on solid cuffs until then but gloves the only other item level 252 glove outside of Pharaoh's gloves is hand wraps of the Vigilant and these Sim anywhere between 90 to 120 DPS worse than the Pharaohs clubs depending on your fight duration so I don't recommend going these unless they're rotting or it's really going to get you a lot of loop prio somewhere else or no one wants to go you want to take one from the team whatever it may be but otherwise Pharaoh's glove should be proud to Mages because they're just that good for Mages they really benefit the Mages the most because the crit and Hazel scale with fire really well so you should be able to get these depending but again depends on what your Loop prior is for your guild so I do recommend highly recommend these over the iron wraps of the Vigilant but these are a significant increase over everything else as well they're they are still like like 60 to 80 DPS better than any other option if you ask for if as long as you don't need hit if you do need hit there is the 10 man hard mode algalon gloves that you can get which are Pulsar gloves and those are really good if you do need hits so those are good pickup if no one is they drop no one needs them or something like that or your low arm pile for gloves for whatever reason you need hit definitely pick these up and that's also again assuming you don't need your gear piece for from your gloves and you're using your gloves as an off piece or something like that or you know for Arcane where you just don't need four you don't need more than two pieces right otherwise we're fire and ffb tier 8 gloves are pretty good if you do need the hit and your situation and so there's that another thing to mention is touch of the equalities are badge gloves so you can just get these for free basically once you get enough badges so touches the cult let's save about 60 DPS more than gloves of token respect so for both fire and for Arcane so or even a little more than that for fire so these are definitely a good pickup if you're still using gloves of token respect or something like that for your gloves hand wraps a plentiful recovery are about 15 DPS more than touch of the occult for Arcane but they Sim about the same as touch the call for fire ffb and these are free so I wouldn't wait to just waste any loot trial get any hand rest of plentiful recovery if they happen to drop from cologarn in 25 band normal I would just you know only if they're rotting say hey if it's not going to count against me for Loop pile I'll pick those up and then you could just that will save you some badges but outside of that that's the pretty much the only use and then there isn't anything else to mention for any of the other gloves here that's pretty much it rebelled as you can see here everything outside star Watchers binding is 20 item levels lower or more and the main thing to mention here is that there's two crafting belts coming out sash bench of power and quarter of the white dawn sash revenge of power is the hit version or the white on the non-hit version and both these are really good so if you need hit craft slash revenge of power it only Sims 5 DPS worse than leash of heatless magic and that's assuming you aren't using the hit it's uh for Arcane at least so this is really good if you don't have Alicia headless magic and you're gonna need some hit this is incredibly good and if you don't need the hit and you're pretty sure you're not going to need the hit on your belt item at all then you can craft quarter the white down which is also really good and this seems better than all the other options embrace the Leviathan is a little bit better than sash or then quarter white dawn for Arcane so if this is rotting you pick it up um but and it could save you some crafting I guess but quarter of the white Don is a lot better for fire because of that crit so and they seem better than the other normals so don't worry about the other ones the same with the Sasha opponent in connotations the badge belt the crafting ones are better I know these cost gold these are just badges but if you can craft these definitely the better way to go and just to show you how good sash range Power can be it actually is used in the uh Arcane horde staff actual business list that you can use slash bench power with the flight Leviathan neck algalon cloak um it wand and then the hit legs and I don't recommend going this because this is going to be a lot more contested algalon cloak can be a lot more contested harder to get and so all right now obviously kernel living Essence hard to get but just I'm just using this to illustrate the point that actually sash Adventure power is really good and so if you just put the way your items work out and how you're getting things you suddenly need hit and you can use saturation power to get it that's a really good utilization of your belt slot her legs again like the enslaved Idol are the only 252 so outside of that the main thing is like for your leg slot for fire you're going to be using tier 84 piece and using your legs as that however until you get that let's say you're using leggings of The Wonton you're basically just going to want to wait until you get your tier 8 piece otherwise if you're not using leggings of The Wonton you're probably using tier 7 two piece until you get your tier 84 piece and that's just what you're going to do for fire however for Arcane there's a few legs to uh point out that you can pick up just as you're off piece since you don't need tier eight four piece and so you could just it could be better DPS upgrade to switch to those for your off piece um over the tier 7 two piece and one of those leggings of crown Darkness if you don't need hit from the legs then these are really good they're just as good as Legends of the enslaved idle basically if you don't need the hit at least from Legends of the enslaved Idol so these just drop from 10 man hard mode vesic so if you can pick them up really good pickup for off piece for your Arcane there's also Legends of lost love which aren't as good as leggings from Darkness but are pretty close but 15 or 20 DPS behind legs found darkness and Ladies of the enslaved Idol assuming you don't need hit once again from your leg piece and these just drop from 25-man storm so if they're not going to count against you for Loop trial or something like that or they're rotting in the main raid whatever it may be these are another little good pickup and then there's also the leg wraps of the master conjure which are from badges however I don't necessarily recommend getting these they only Sim about 20 DPS maybe 15 20 DPS more than tier 8 legs and you're eventually going to get tier eight legs so I wouldn't necessarily waste the badges on these you could but that's assuming you don't even need the hit from this so even if you don't need the hit from tier 8 legs you could just use those and yeah they're only a 15 to 200 DPS Behind These I would just try and pick up leggings lost love or Legends of profound Darkness you should be able to get one of those eventually until you can get your leg into the enslaved Idol so that's what I recommend for boots I talked about it in the sets but I'm going to touch on it here again of course is there's boots of fire resolution and Treads of the false Oracle for our 252 level boots and one from yogg-saron the other from flame Leviathan and the flame Leviathan boots uh they seem best for Arcane they assume about 30 DPS more than Treads and then Treads and Boots of fire resolution boasts him about the same for fire and ffp so boots are obviously the better choice then because they're going to be 30 DPS more than treads for your Arcane set and they'll be about the same for your fire ffb set than they are Treads but the problem is these are going to be more contested but it depends on your guild that's right that's just based on the fusion Loop prior sheet and my guild right for your guild it might be different you might be able to get bootsified resolution or you're an HTTP whatever it may be and if you can yeah definitely get glutes of fire resolution over Treads but just know that Treads they're not bad they're about the same for fire and ffb as boots and then they're they're basically the same and then there's going to be a little bit worse for our Arcane then outside of that there are a lot of other 232 boots as you can see here but the thing to just keep in mind is two of these are craftables the Spell slinger slippers and the Savior slippers and the Spell slinger slippers are ahead of everything else for Arcane outside of the 252 boots so until you get your 252 boots just craft these and they're going to be good to go for your Arcane set and then they're also pretty good for the fire and fob set and they're actually ahead of the Savior slippers even though save your slippers have crit just because of stat itemization the Spell slinger slippers are ahead of that for uh fire up and ffb so you can just craft these and use them for both and one little thing that you could pick up though is in your 10 man Starlight Treads can drop from algalon and if you can get these for fire you could use these until you get Treads or boots of fire resolution because these Sim about 50 DPS more than the spell singer slippers but only for you know fire and ffb so not critical to pick them up but you know if you can roll on them in a 10 man or whatever it may be and grab these then they're going to be a good thing to use for your fire and ffp sets until you can get either Treads or boots fire resolution the Rings are best are conductive seal and Nebula band as I've touched on before so conductive seal this drops from 25 man memeron hard mode firefighter and then the Nebula band drops from 10 man hard mode algalon and so until you get these as you can see there's a number of other rings but a lot of them are MP5 rings and they're not worth getting so uh just pay attention to the ones that I point out first I will say conductive seal this is biss in phase three as well so this is phase three Biz so picking this up is definitely a good idea obviously after phase three comes out you could still pick go back and pick this up for this then so it's not like you have to really worry about it or something like that but just know that if you get this then you're solid for phase three for one of your ring slots another thing to mention is the Kirin Tor ring this is now it's been buffed the upgraded version of it and you so you pay a thousand gold to upgrade your Kirin Tor ring to inscribe Signet and this is just as good as Signum Manifesto pain after the buff that blizzard gave it so if you already have the Kieran tour ring this is pretty good for just a thousand gold which isn't too much and we're at the Lich King nowaday is and it's yeah just good to Signal manifest pain if you don't already have the Kieran tour ring though then it's a lot more expensive then you're looking at 7 800 gold are all together then it's not really worth it I don't recommend it then but yeah so there's that Insignia manifest of pain outside of those for non-hit options there's power light circle which is a little bit better than both of those uh just drops from 25 man Ignus normal and then there's also Signet of South lament which is a tiny bit worse than pirated Circle or it can be a tiny bit better depending on the your scenario and this is drops from 10 man yogs are on hard mode so if no one else is rolling on this and the Tin Man then you know roll on this try and pick it up and it's just going to be a nice little upgrade over signal manifest painting inscribe signature Kieran tour until you can get your conductor seal or Nebula band or both for hit options there's Frozen Loop and shimmering seal Frozen Loop drops from 25 man hodir and shimmering steel is from 10 man flame Leviathan hard mode both are pretty good as far as hit options shimmering seal is a little bit better for fire and ffp because it's got uh it just is with the way the stats work out then hold your earbud Frozen Loop if you need hit as your Arcane which I find hard to believe because Arcane just has so much hit but if you do then Frozen Loop is going to be a better option than a shimmering seal but either one is going to be fine as far as a hit option for your rings if you're looking to get hit from your ring slot for some reason and then like I said a lot of these other ones are just MP5 or not worth looking into so don't worry about them so for trinkets flare the heavens and scale of Fates are of course this for both Arcane fire and ffb and outside of that trinkets first I'll talk about Arcane there just isn't too much else for Arcane there is Pandora's plea which if it's very Niche though in terms of whether it can do well or not based on the int and how much extra man it gives you for the fight duration so I wouldn't worry about this too much really at all unless you're really good at simming and figuring out some things then it can be okay and it like you know if you didn't need any of the hit off of dying curse and you didn't have a better non-hit option you could use this because their procs are very similar but otherwise I wouldn't worry about it these two trinkets are you know managing trinkets don't worry about them there just isn't too much else for Arcane I the prude mother just not sim that well basically you're still just going to be using phase one trinkets until you can get scale of Fades and flare the heavens for Arcane uh so illustration of dragon soul for longer fights um dying curse for some hit and that good proc Embrace The Spider and Sundial if you don't have one of those but you'll be able to get these eventually just with glue changes and then uh you know Embrace Inspire and Sundial for shorter fights other than illustration but aldoir the fights are longer so illustration is actually pretty decent for Arcane and I doubt you need hit as Arcane so not really worth mentioning the elemental Focus Stone and living flame but for fire if you can make use of this hit by then swapping around some other pieces of gear or something like that a living flame isn't actually that bad but I wouldn't waste any loot trial on it or anything like that it's still going to be worse than scale Fades even if you can make use of the hit but it's not a whole time worse you know maybe 30 to 50 DPS worse it's drops from 25 man razor scale so again in your main raid I wouldn't waste any Loop pile on this or something just if it's rotting or no one's going to use it and you you know it's not going to count against you for Loot and you actually have a way to use it but for fire and ffb I the broodmother actually is pretty good it's going to be better than illustration going to be better than your other phase one tray kits so uh as far as non-hit options so this is actually pretty good um I recommend a V8 it could be using dying curse and I the broodmother then once you get this it's just from 10 man razor scale so good pickup for your fire and FP sets all right this is just a short section where I want to touch on phase two Biz items that are also bis in phase three so maybe you want to put more emphasis on them so you don't have to worry about getting them in phase three um and that's basically just conductor seal so 25 man uh mimron hard mode this ring is going to be best in phase three as well player of the heavens uh General Physics hard mode 25 man uh best going into there and then the Freya 10-man hard mode one petrified Ivy Sprague the hit wand that is best for all the sets is also this in phase three so those three items are going to be you're gonna get a lot of longevity out of them and here I just want to talk about some 10 man items that are pretty decent to pick up uh pretty much all these are going to be of course hard mode except for I The Brood mother um but yeah pen into the shallow grave really good neck if you can get this highly recommend it's going to be close to Sapphire and uh yeah so this is just something really great to have in them as a temporary until you get your final best of course the 10 man algalon cloak other people are going to want this as well but it's not that much worse and then you have a good non-hit cloak option and so if you can get this definitely recommend Fusion blade really good one-hander especially if you can utilize the hit this is just really good all around and so I definitely recommend it if you can get it other people are probably going to want it but you know eventually if you can grab it then it's a great one-hand hit option for you to have on hand it's 2 45 eye level so really good um similarly ice core staff great not non-hit weapon option if you're going the non-hit route or if you're going uh staff route this is just a great pickup as well so figure out how to utilize that you know those weapons but those are both great pickups igniter Rod good for fire and FB it's just uh this is from ignis 10 man so it's normal so you can get a chance at this every week and it's just a good option for your fire and ffb offhand if you're using a one-hander pulsar gloves really good hit gloves they drop from algalon 10 man hard mode really really good hit Club what else is there to say if you can actually use hit from your glove slot then these are really good leggings and profound just talked about them as well 10 man hard mode vesics and they are just really good legs if you don't need the hit off Legends of the enslaved Idol these are basically just as good close to it really good legs if you just don't need the hit from the leg slot Starlight Treads uh these aren't going to be better for Arcane but for fire these are really good these are only beat by Treads and Boots of the fiery resolution so if you can pick these up in 10 man algalon then they're going to be a great option for your fire and ffp set until you can finally you can get your end game this so definitely look out for those sticking to stop limit there isn't that many ring options for us right as I've talked about conductive seals the only 252 item level one and everyone's gonna want it so Cigna supplement is not that bad uh or layment whatever you want to say you know you make fun of me in the comments um it's a little bit better than Signet and Scribe Kieran tour ring and it's about the same close to it for pyro light circle as far as which one's better so just a it's very close and so that's a good option to pick up from 10 man uh Yachts are on hard mode if you can obviously nebula ban this is going to be this is one of our best rings so you're going to want to get this eventually from algalon obviously whoever's getting this first shouldn't be getting this as well so just make sure you're in your 10 man you're splitting up the loot appropriately either Brew mother not good for Arcane but for the ep's really screwing this up so I can't even really show the trinkets that well but I had the rude mother really good for fire and ffb um not that great for Arcane so you're not gonna use it for Arcane but uh but for fire enough it beats out the other non-hit trinkets so I definitely recommend getting this eventually for your fire because it could be a while until you get flare right and same scale of Fates so this is uh gonna be great for your fire and FB sets and then of course petrified Ivy sprig this is from 10 man hard mode Freya and it's just uh the best wand it's uh it's a hit one so you need to make use of the hit but it's still just it's the only item level 245 and it's best going into phase three or bis uh throughout phase three I should say so you're gonna want to get this eventually great wand and here I just wanted to have a section on some 25 man normal items that are worthwhile to look out for they're either you know realistic bits or bis or just you know pretty good decent upgrades until you get final discs so first of all call her the wormhunter I talked about this before this is a pretty good Helm and it's basically realistic Fizz because it's unrealistic to probably get Chrono luminescence as well as other stuff and this is just a really good Helm so if you can pick this up eventually definitely recommend doing that it is from 25 man razor scale uh bracelets of Unleashed magic these are from cologarn Hit Racers if you need hit and you can get it on your bracer slots and these are really good just because there is no other you know bracers really other than the 252 item level ones from XT so if you can make use of these really good Soul scribe great one-hander if you go in the one-handed route as an upgrade until you can get your final base um again as long as it's not maybe going to count against you for Loop rail same Rune scribe blade is also a decent pickup Soul scribes a little bit better but RuneScape blade is also not too bad um I remember just a decent offhand that it isn't really that many uh fans right you know there's just Cosmos at 252 and everything else is item level 232 or lower so iron mender pretty good if you can get it for Arcane just something to maybe look out for but again not going to count against you for the pile skill fates of course our best one of our best Trinkets and that drops from 25 man normal so you can get that and then scepter of lost souls this drops from uh 25-man normal vesics and it's just a good non-hit wand and then you know you could so something to swap around in case you have a hit wand you can if you just need to drop some hit somewhere you can swap this on or if you're Alliance and you get the one percent hit puff you know you're not always getting that so then if you are getting that you could swap off your hit one for this just makes me for an easy swap just a really good non-hit one definitely the best non-hit one so if you can pick that up it's a good pickup oh and I don't know why it got removed but embrace the Leviathan I do want to actually mention that for 25 man normal items um this is actually can be for Arcane pretty decent over the craft belt if you can pick this up and it's not going to cost count against you for Loop trial so you can you're not going to use it for fire and FB you'd rather use the crafted belt so that's why the crafted belt is just good for both um but you can get this for free then you could use this over the crafted belt for Arcane it's going to be a little bit of a boost anywhere between 10 to 30 DPS depending on a number of other factors lastly people have asked for like if that's my biz as well as optimal gearing pass so I'm going to talk about that some here here's what I have for the that's my best Flair number one just because it's a super good train kit it's uh highly contested it's great for both of our specs and a lot of this is just based on how much contested items are right so 252 weapons also very contested um going to be hard to get one so I put that up high same with scale just another trinket so once you get flare if you're getting flare first you're probably not getting this but I still would put it up there high on your that's my business people know like yeah that is definitely something important to you Pharaoh's gloves another item that there isn't too much in between from 232 to 252 which are the two two gloves they're also highly contested very good for us grass reason same kind of concept there same with star Watchers binding conductive seal there is some other options at 239 but this one carries over into phase three so it being phase three bits just kind of makes sense for putting it on here as well and after that it's going to be kind of down to your situation and so here I'm going to talk about that so I'm now why I kind of have those items on there in the optimal gearing path um Mages are it's a really good choice for us to be the first ones to receive tier VII so I think that you know talk to your guild that that should be where those are getting proud so something that's like your first things you should be getting is chest and shoulders from a guild for tier 8 you can eventually buy tier VII Helm then with Badges and eventually get legs as well and there you go you're gonna have four piece tier rate you should pretty early on um you're going to use this for obviously fire and ffp and you're also going to use it for Arcane until you get those off pieces like color the wormhunter like I talked about or leggings of the enslaved idle but those aren't going to be for a while all right but you can pick up leggings and profile and darkness from 10 man um and then like I said I made this list because it's mainly I prioritize it based on how things are contested just how contested they are um but it's also some of it has to do with what other options you have from 10 man right it's like I don't have cloak on there because you can get the 10-man hard mode algalon cloak and that's pretty dang good so you can get that from 10 man for neck you can also get pen into the shallow shallow grave from 10 man and that's really good so that's why I don't have a neck prioritized on there because you can get a really good neck from here and it's uh it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna be awesome like this this neck is is really good so there's no point in wasting Luke prio on one of these next when you can just get this one and rock it and tell towards the end of the phase and get these there's other more important items now that same concept can be applied for weapons but weapons are just so contested that that's why I still put them high up on that list but you know you can get the ice core staff 245 eye level from 10 man heart holding your hard mode and that's pretty good and likewise if you're going star chart Edge you can get Fusion blade while waiting for Star Shard Edge and fusion blade from Ted man is also a pretty good weapon so you know you have those options but with bracers you don't have any option like that there's just unsolid cuffs and grasp the reason that's it so that's why I actually put grass for reason on that list for trinkets there is another option for fire right you can get eye of the brood mother uh and if you're getting flare you're probably not going to get scale so and that's that's fine um you get flare and then you also get I The Brood mother from um 10-man razor scale and you're going to be good to go on fire and then your Arcane yeah it's just going to use Flair and one of your phase one one of the phase one non-hit Trinkets and that's fine until you can eventually get scale if you ever do rewind our best one is from 10 man uh Freya hard mode so that's another really good 10 man um Rings again I put conductor seal on there because it's this into phase three but you don't necessarily have to do that if you care about getting geared up the fastest way possible then you know one of our best one or best Rings is from 10 man it's algalon and then also you could get a signature of layman and from 10 man yogs are on hard mode and that's a pretty good ring and then you can just rock those until towards the end of the phase and eventually hopefully get conductive seal um boots another one where I don't put them on there because you can get Starlight Treads which is pretty dang good for fire and you can also there's craftables I do put star Watchers binding on there even though there are the crafted belts and those are really good craft embellishes because that one is really contested and it's really good for fire um and there's not anything there's no like 239 ones in between or anything like that but I could see you putting this one lower if you wanted to just because there are the craftables and those can be really good especially sash of ancient power if you can make use of that hit um and then pharaohs again there's nothing in between there is the Pulsar gloves if you could use hit but a lot of times we're not we're not needing hit so uh that's why I put the Pharaohs on their ends because they're so contested but they're also just really really good so there's that too but as far as optimal gearing path it kind of comes down to what 10 man items are gonna drop for you but just keep in mind all those 10 man items that I just went over there's a lot of really good ones that you can use to gear up your character in combination with strategic 252 one so you know I wouldn't be wasting mood prio on like the 252 next when there's something like pendants of the shallow grave to get same with with cloak you can try and get the algalon cloak from 10 man as opposed to getting the 252 ones let someone else maybe get those first because you can you can be more strategic with your your choices based on the 10 man items and I go over those 10 man items earlier in the video both in the 10 man section um of like items to look out for in 10 man as well as in each of the slots so just keep all those items in mind when you're creating your that's my best and when I create my that's my best I create a base mainly on just what's the most contested so that the guild knows that I care about those items because those are going to be hard to get because they're so contested and so I just put them a higher pile but you can also do it just strategically as I just talked about all right everyone that was a long one uh if you made it to 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Length: 78min 40sec (4720 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 15 2023