Comments on: Frost Mage: Ghost Hit

By: Tuna

Tuna — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:46:44 +0000

@Bobyboucher

I myself haven’t seen any difference on my level 70 Mage that I copied over, when I had 126 Spell Hit Rating and was doing Heroics. But it might have just been good luck with hits/miss. I think when the pre-patch hits, we’re going to need 164 once again, but by that time, the new raid stacking mechanics are going to be in place, and you will still not need 164 with how raid buffs will be applied. S.Priest’s Misery will give you +3% Hit, Shaman’s Totem of Wrath will give you +3% Hit, etc…

As for WotLK, as you level up, it will take more Spell hit rating to reach the cap. For instance, at level 70, 1% Spell Hit = 12.62 Spell Hit Rating. At level 80, 1% Spell Hit = 26.23 Spell Hit Rating. So we’re going to need more than 164 Spell Hit Rating for WotLK.

By: Bobyboucher

Bobyboucher — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:17:45 +0000

just wondering after your ptr testing have you noticed if we are gonna need to climb back up to the 164 hit cap once again as frost? Or are we spared untill wotlk??

By: Tuna

Tuna — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:03:22 +0000

Current WoW, Frost still has the extra 3%. When Wrath of the Lich King hits, you can probably count on it being fixed.

By: Curious

Curious — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:00:48 +0000

So has this been fixed or does frost still have the extra 3%?

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» Blog Archive » My World of Warcraft — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:06:13 +0000

[...] Playing as the underdog Spec actually made be a better Mage/raider/player. On paper, Fire was about 2-5% higher DPS than Frost- in a perfect simulation. This meant if I had to keep up or beat them, I had to be focused at all times, and learn to take advantage of any tool I can. A good example of this is the Frost “Ghost Hit“. [...]

By: Tuna

Tuna — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:36:29 +0000

@Dharama

A lot of Mages think that this Ghost Hit was intended since Blizzard has yet to fix this in any of the patches. As of 2.4.2, this “bug” is still in the game, leading most to think that it is part of the mechanic of the talent.

The only fight that I have used Empowerment Elixir was on Rage Winterchill in Mount Hyjal, which dropped my resist from ~45% to ~25%. Till a high resist rate, but it is better than nothing.

By: Dhrama

Dhrama — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:55:15 +0000

Hi I also play a mage deep frost, ofcourse, but still working on hit gear updates.
I don’t see this as a mistake for the Ghost Hit as it is being called. this is also why I use empowerment elixir as it lowers the targets resistance as well…

By: Drynne

Drynne — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:55:36 +0000

Thanks for the info. I use that manoutoftime.org a lot also. Good information there.

Oh, and you’ve inspired me to farm Strat. Thanks! <3

By: LM

LM — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:51:16 +0000

Thankyou for that site Tuna, Ever since i read your AP Frost Vs. Deep Frost i’ve been keeping up to date on your blog and that theory crafting site is just plain awesomeness.

As for the deep frost spec I tried out but went back to AP frost, my play style is much more adapted to the AP Frost, just more comfortable with it, although the deep frost I can see how it works out so well.

By: Olympia

Olympia — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:52:02 +0000

<3 for that link tuna! owning maxdps.com!
thanks!

any thought of spell haste?