08-04-2005, 07:46 AM
Bob the Beholder,Aug 4 2005, 12:35 AM Wrote:It seems like it, sorta. I've built a mage to 60 and played with a hunter for a good long time, and I have NEVER found a mage (myself or someone else) to pick Combustion over Presence of Mind, in the usual fire/arcane build, on my PvP server. Not once.[right][snapback]85111[/snapback][/right]
I do not know of any mages who have Combustion over PoM on Stormrage, either (although the concept has been kicked around as an Alterac Valley-specific build). I'm guessing savaughn meant to say 31 Arcane/20 Fire, which is indeed the most common mage build on the servers I've checked out (which is to say Stormrage, Tichondrius and Warsong).
20 Arcane is also not popular: people usually go 16, 18, 21, 28 or 31 points into arcane. I haven't seen anyone go for the power eighteen and then decide they need two points in improved mana shield or something.
There are at least five "cookie cutter" builds for mages:
31/20 arcane/fire
33/16 frost/arcane
28/23 frost/arcane
28/23 arcane/fire
30/21 fire/arcane
I know of at least five more builds that people use and are happy with, as well. Mages don't really cookie cutter as much as, say, hunters (though that may change with the talent redesign).