Standard raid buffs + Demonic Pact (5000 SP) and ICC Buff. Professions are Tailoring / Enchanting.
Updated to 10% ICC Buff.

Arcane: 16,502.51 DPS (16,485.12 using T10 gloves, Festergut Pants, Rotface Wrists - Essentially identical @17dps difference)

Head: Sanctified Bloodmage Hood
Neck: Blood Queen’s Crimson Choker
Shoulders: Sanctified Bloodmage Shoulderpads
Chest: Sanctified Bloodmage Robe
Back: Frostbinder’s Shredded Cape
Wrists: The Lady’s Brittle Bracers
Hands: San’layn Ritualist Gloves
Waist: Crushing Coldwraith Belt
Legs: Sanctified Bloodmage Leggings
Feet: Plague Scientist’s Boots
Rings: Ring of Rapid Ascent Ashen Band of Endless Destruction
Trinkets: Dislodged Foreign Object Reign of the Dead
Mainhand: Bloodsurge, Kel’Thuzad’s Blade of Agony
Offhand: Shadow Silk Spindle
Wand: Corpse-Impaling Spike

Gems:
Purified Dreadstone for all socket bonuses of 7 or more spell power.
Reckless Ametrine for all other sockets.

Arcane: 16,258.32 DPS (Without using HLK25 weapon, about 250dps less)
Swaps: Weapon LK to Putricide, Wrists Deathwhisper to Rotface.

Head: Sanctified Bloodmage Hood
Neck: Blood Queen’s Crimson Choker
Shoulders: Sanctified Bloodmage Shoulderpads
Chest: Sanctified Bloodmage Robe
Back: Frostbinder’s Shredded Cape
Wrists: Death Surgeon’s Sleeves
Hands: San’layn Ritualist Gloves
Waist: Crushing Coldwraith Belt
Legs: Sanctified Bloodmage Leggings
Feet: Plague Scientist’s Boots
Rings: Ring of Rapid Ascent Ashen Band of Endless Destruction
Trinkets: Dislodged Foreign Object Reign of the Dead
Mainhand: Rigormortis
Offhand: Shadow Silk Spindle
Wand: Corpse-Impaling Spike

Gems:
Purified Dreadstone for all socket bonuses of 7 or more spell power.
Reckless Ametrine for all other sockets.

Also, Fire’s huge lead over Arcane has a lot to do with the availability of a viable 277 trinket, which Arcane does not have. If you change to 4pc T10 (due to limited availability of tokens) and the second best trinket (Heroic Muradin’s) the dps gap closes a bit leaving fire at around 16,010 DPS.

So, when do you swap to fire?! In general, if you get the Sindragosa trinket Fire is better than Arcane, however I would still prefer Arcane for certain fights in ICC. For example, any target swapping that doesn’t allow significant ignite or living bomb ticks ends up favoring Arcane (Blood Beasts).

Which spec is better for the only significant fight, HLK25, is still debatable. Given that Fire’s single target is at the very least as good as Arcane, either spec should be okay.

Living bomb on vile spirits will surely favour fire.

I assume this doesnt take into account fights that support IA either.

IA is dead =(

Also, although fire is significantly better for killing vile spirits, I’m not sure if people have decided how much aoe will be needed in phase 3 (if any at all), depending on the strat.

True enough, on 25 man soaking is probably stronger. What changed with IA?

IA only procs off Frost/Fire ward + mana shield + ice barrier(lol?) now.

Priest shields, frost warding talent (30% full absorb), Valanyr procs, Sacred shield, Twins aura, etc. all not longer proc IA.

My face, it is oh so sad.

Is Rawr accurate for mages? It’s completely worthless for feral.

It’s pretty much perfect for mages. The only thing slightly off is when you are near a value of haste that will let you fit in “one more cast’ into something like 2pc T10 proc.

Also, I wouldn’t say its worthless for feral. The simulation and rawr sets are usually pretty close if not exactly the same. Its probably worthless for determining rotation / dps values though.

I hate Rawr.  It means people don’t have to do math.  Math is fun and educational! 

...and I haven’t had my coffee.  Clearly. 

Also, I wouldn’t say its worthless for feral. The simulation and rawr sets are usually pretty close if not exactly the same. Its probably worthless for determining rotation / dps values though.

Rawr reports hit and expertise as having about half the value they actually do, and it assumes ALL extra combo points are used for fbite. It also models most procs incorrectly (rep ring for example). It’s useful for generating gearsets to import into simcraft :p

Yo Quavvy. Kil’jaeden was my first server in wow…

Went to highschool with Theo and Ledz

No shit?  Theo is the guildleader of Hellfish now.  He does a real nice job.  They seem to like me okay, I hope.