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Comment by 9230

Lol.. this is prolly mage set, if a set at all. The set bonus kinda tell ;)

Comment by 29257

I know how to play the class just fine. You're in denial.
Cookie-cutter builds are cookie-cutter for a reason. They're the best builds. The proof is everywhere. Take your damage meters and check your DPS with every build. Hell, find a simulator. People have written tons of programs that simulate damage rolls for all sorts of specializations and spell combinations.

This is a resource webpage. Resources are intended to help others. I'm not going to lie to them just to make myself feel better. Fire is better in DPS and if you want better DPM, you Scorch.
To say otherwise is blatantly false with the vast mathematical proof that floods the official WoW forums on a weekly basis.
Lying to the countless Mages who rely on this website, among others as a resource for bettering themselves, their setup and their playstyle isn't right.
You can delude yourself all you'd like, but all you're doing is trying to justify your continued use of a build that's now focused on survivability, NOT damage.

Just because you refuse to see the truth doesn't mean it doesn't apply to you, or to anyone else.

Oh, and telling me I need to "Learn2Play" is as re-hashed and uncreative as it is petty and pathetic. You're the one who needs to figure out what Mages do. Mages do damage. Get a damage build.
And stop rating down my posts.

In regard to your last post:
If you actually did the math, you'd know that the co-efficient nerf shaved off about...13% from Frostbolts, as compared to 10% from Fireballs. So, that's a bigger hit right there.
And Frost BURST DPS requires Shatter, which isn't viable in raids, and has limited viability in 5-mans, especially after the nerf to Frost Novas and their ability to withstand critical hits.
It's not ignorant at all. It's true.

This isn't a brag post, but I'm typically topping the meters in all 5-mans I run.
I have +693 Fire Damage. My +damage to Frost would be something like...653 with other equipment that I have.
I switched to Frost one day to try out in the Arenas and when I went into a Heroic Steamvaults run, and I was barely beating the PALADIN TANK in damage.
I did my best to maximize the use of Shatter. I timed my Frostbolts and sync'd them up with my Water Elemental Freeze so they'd launch and crit, I made sure to follow up every Shatter-affected Frostbolt with an Ice Lance. I'd use Frost Nova whenever it was up to get extra Shatter criticals and boost my damage. It didn't help.
Why should I have to have 1k Frost damage to out-damage a Paladin?

Comment by Khane

Tier 6 mage set, good frost bonuses for PvE and PvP damage.

Comment by 37154

After reading all that gibberish about how frost mages can't dps a worth of crap compared to a fire mage, it's true, frost was always ment to be the survivability spec and also mana efficient, it's all about what you want from your class, mass amounts of damage and yelling "I'm OOM" after a minute of continuous scorches, or going the full fight never needing to mana pot and keeping up the damage.

OT: I am currently liking this 2/4 piece bonus, 2 more seconds on evocation would be most beneficial for any mage that isn't dumb enough to get caught in an attack that would cause it to break, and I agree why do warlock's get 6% and mages 5%? Get with it Bliz no-wonder I moved onto Vanguard..

Oh And by the way, 846 base frost damage, I can out dps any fire mage on my server, Dath'rama that isnt part of a certain centerlink guild..

Comment by 37111

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I wouldn't call that a frost mage, I would call that a arcane/3 minute mage.

make it 12...

Comment by 45594

I must say im suprised that no1 have noticed the spirit. It's almost as much spirit on this set as stamina. (135 sta 116 spir)
I really hate spirit. Why do Blizzard insist to put spirit on mage sets? It's totally useless for a mage (useless for most classes and not good for those who can actually use it).

I rather have 10 more spell dmg than 116 spirit. The warlock set is way better. And yes spirit increase the mana from evocation... /care

ps. I agree with Turanis, fire is best for dmg and I also have 33/28 build :)

Comment by 45732

this set is awsome!

Comment by 33776

Decent raiding set except that the 4 piece bonus ignores scorch-spam mages. Taking all the basic fire raiding talents in addition to the 10 points for improved and empowered fireball leaves you unable to take arcane meditation and makes it extremely difficult to even fit in clearcasting, which is almost a necessary talent for mana-intensive fights.

But who knows, frost damage might be the rule by the time we get around to collecting this set.

Comment by 48172

Obviously later fights will take more mana, nuff said. Current my Evo does only give me back about 4k, but I also don't blow my whole bar every fight or even during some bosses because that would me I'd be pulling aggro with FB spamming or just wasting mana Scorch spamming. Expecting a mana-intensive fight for me means turning off Molten- and turning on Mage- armor maybe even throw in a Pyro. I think that if I had to Invis.-> switch to +spirit weapons-> Evo-> switch back, Resume fighting... for an extra 10-20% mana I'd feel silly. Moreover some bosses can see Invis. or have AoE's that may break your Invis. or Evo at which point you're SOL/just wasting time/you've just screwed yourself for 10mins of the fight using your lame weapons.

I'd say kick up Evo. % in lieu of channel time, or drop CD time.

Also... the thing coming out of the headpiece isn't that cool, T4-6 all are kinda drab with bad hats. How about a little more going on downstairs instead of just a neat dress pattern with average shoulders-style.

P.S. Why no Troll love in the models? :(

P.P.S. The 'Lock 2-Set lends itself to them basically healing/gaining mana all the time, not wasting stat points in spirit and then having a set bonus to take advantage of said wasted points. I'd take more intellect over spirit and keep my crappy Evo. knowing I gained a tiny bit of mana and crit%, both of which can help me pew-pewing longer.

Comment by 42697

Finally, a mage set with worthy set bonuses! :D

Comment by 50591

The set doesn't look nice, and I don't like the style

Comment by 26387

Video of all Tier 6 armor sets in action: http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=97.0

Comment by 42159

1 spirit will give you more mana in any fight where you can evocate than 1 int as well. 1 int gives a minor amount of crit though (and possibly an even more minor amount of spell damage with spellfire and/or arcane spec) while spirit gives 0 damage. But if mana is what you're looking at 1 spirit is 16 mana per evocation while 1 int is 15 mana per bossfight. And that's when you use molten armor with 100% in the 5-sec rule, if you get out of 5-sec rule at any point and/or use mage armor (depending on the fight) spirit becomes even better in terms of mana. But then again in most fights mana isn't an issue and if it is learn to bring your mana potions as well as recruiting more shadow priests ;p better than gearing with less damage and more mana.

Comment by gricko

where do u get these pictures?!
tell me pleasE! :P

Comment by 68531

You seem to forget the fact that this is a 5 piece set which means you still can equip things to these slots 2 rings, 2 trinkets, wrist, back, boots, belt, and neck so thats 130 extra spirit plus any extra spirit from your other gear making evocation return more mana than you accounted for when you first posted.

Comment by Liandra

Something I have been wondering about... the Gem that most Mages prefer is Runed Living Ruby, which is a Red gem. However, all items in the tier 4/5/6 Mage sets have Yellow and Blue sockets. Give me Red sockets with a decent socket bonus any day.

Any guesses as to Blizzard's reasoning behind the Blue/Yellow sockets?

Comment by Splinter

As a fire mage myself, I tend to go with whatever socket blizzard throws my way. I usually don't socket to gain more stamina, becase I feel that isn't a worthy socket bonus, however, something like spelldamage socket bonus, I tend to throw veiled noble topaz into yellow/red and stormy star of elune into blue, obviously when I hit around 17% spellhit, I stop throwing veiled in and start throwing potent noble topaz in instead, also when I hit around 70 spell penetration I stop throwing in stormy and start throwing in sparkling star of elune.

About "Fireball being only dps of fire mages", I must ask you to try playing a fire mage and comparing your dps with Fire Blast to your dps without Fire Blast, and I assure you that Fire Blast is a huge amount of a fire mage's damage no matter how you look at it. As for arcane mages and "Arcane Missiles is the main part of an arcane mage's dps", well, sorry to say this again but, I must ask you to try playing an arcane mage. As my guild were learning Al'ar (quite a while ago now) I felt obliged to help out the best I could, so I spec'd arcane to up my dps a bit, and I stayed that way for a couple of weeks, however, I already had an arcane mage in my guild who told me a rotation to try out, and this was AB->AB->AB->AM->FireBlast->Repeat, as you can see, there are 5 casts in this rotation and only 1 is arcane missiles, this was infact the best rotation I found for even dps to mana consumption (obviously better dps would be AB spam, but crap for mana, and better mana consumpton would be to use AM every clearcasting, but that would decrease dps). However, whilst I was in MC/BWL, obviously I was frost spec as this was the only choice mages had back then, and back then it was rare that I used fire blast, I constantly was casting frostbolt, meaning that this bonus would've given 5% more damage back then, I don't know for sure right now, but I'm pretty certain the mage class hasn't changed enough to remove that kind of thing.

So you see, although frost mages do probably get around 5% increase to overall damage from this bonus (which, may I add, might not scale with spelldamage), fire and arcane mages do not get 5% increase in damage, or anything of the sort.

(This was posted in reply mostly to the "Warlocks get 6%? Fine! They have dots!")

Comment by frolony

Where is this stuff found and how many tokens do u need to buy it

Comment by 63980

I'de have to say, prolly the best part about the set isnt the stats, but the halo energy sword strapped to your head. thats gota come in handy sometime.

Comment by 92982

With the implementation of patch 2.3, Evocation will change from increasing your Mana regeneration by 1500% to restoring 60% of your total Mana. Thus, the 2 piece set-bonus will give an extra 15% Mana for the extra tick, resulting in a total of 75% Mana restored for a full Evocation.

Comment by hordegecko

With spirit's usefulness decreased for mages due to evocation returning a percent of mana, I believe that blizzard should take a hard look at how much spirit is in this set and do a bit of tweaking.

Comment by 121930

All these pieces dropped in TK or in HS or both?

Comment by 7784

All T6 sets, such as this, are being changed to 8 set pieces in 2.4

http://www.worldofraids.com/2008/ptr/24/t6/mage/mage.jpg

Comment by Dalus

Chestpiece drops off Illidan Stormrage in Black Temple (End boss)

Gloves drop off Azgalor in Mount Hyjal (Fourth boss)

Helm drops off Archimonde in Mount Hyjal (End boss)

Leggings drop off The Illidari Council in Black Temple (Eighth boss)

Shoulders drop off Mother Shahraz in Black Temple (Seventh boss)

Bracers drop off Kalecgos in Sunwell Plateau (First boss)

Belt drops off Brutallus in Sunwell Plateau (Second boss)

Boots drop off Felmyst in Sunwell Plateau (Third boss)

Comment by bwcultist

184 spirit on mage gear that does nothing since evocation was changed in 2.2 i beleive you can say the priest buff still thats like at most 20 sp buff i'd much rather have stam/int or crit spell dmg or some hit or anything to get rid of spirit. And spirit is worthless arcane for pve is dead pretty much its all fire/ice or ice/arcane.And spirit doesnt help regen it does when you not casting but if you not casting you not doing dmg so gg to that.

Comment by bwcultist

184 spirit=gg wtb those points into stam/int or spell crit/hit/dmg or anything else stop wasting points on pointless. And yes priest buff does give extra spell dmg for spirit but im a human mage and i get 10% more spirit and i get like 10 spell dmg boost from it i would much rather enjoy more stam/int or spell crit/hit/dmg.

Comment by 137729

... im luking for a good set for a mage , i already lvl 70 and dont know where can i get some good set for my mage.. i just got envy to others that have a complete sets.. some1 told me there a site that can give information about item sets of mage.. that cuckhead.com i search for that and see this set.. Tempest Regalia .. im interested to this set but dont know where can i get or able to obtain this set.. can some1 teach me or guide me to how can i get this set???

Comment by 137729

do i need to finish the attunement to order me to enter the black temple ??

Comment by 116532

All tier 6 sets for clothers have 1391 armor, but the stats are diferrent
New items added in 2.4 are bracers, boots and wrist
These all drop in Sunbwell Plateau, new zone in 2.4

Comment by Kelesti

Is it just me, or could Blizzard also be hoping to see more use of Mage Armor/Arcane Meditation with this Spirit as well? *shrug*

Comment by 101003

Laser monkey, Do you PUG a lot? Its hard for me to imagine someone using your strategy in Hyjal/BT. From the math Ive read, that strategy wouldnt work even if you had 2 Spriests in your group, just too mana intensive and really sounds like a burst strategy. I'm not flaming you, I am really curious. It's hard to judge the relative knowledge, and the rotation you described doesn't sound sustainable.

BTW, compare this set to the Malefic gear for Locks. Their set IS better, IMO, and I'll tell you why- nothing to do with 5-6%.

No Spirit, better hit on whole. Tempest gives (all 8 pieces) 95 hit, 11 non meta slots, Malefic gives 143 hit, 11 non meta slots, and close enough for no effect on damage, haste, and a tad more crit to Tempest. I also concede that slot color isn't so important if you don't care about getting bonuses, but whatever, some do, just most uber mages go all +12. I am a deep fire mage and would rather have less crit and more hit, or best of all, F%^& spirit and more hit. I believe it gives the lock set more flexibility in socketing than the mage set, because if you were all T6 you would have to use more of that socketing towards hit as a mage (unless your arcane, but most t6 wearing mages are fire with IV or CC or arcane frost), whereas with Malefic gear you're damn near hit capped with just the pieces. The lock can just +12 damage slot all the way, maybe some +dam/+stam. Basically, given 164 hit cap for a fire mage, you're looking for 69 more hit from gems, ring, neck, weap, (off) and enchant, which space a lock can use for damage or haste or crit. Everyone says if you're in T6 your hit capped, but if were having a discussion about endgame absolute best setups, look at the stats & distribution. Malefic is more socket efficient due to no spirit and more hit, same socketability.

I recognize that spirit can help with damage, but lets say we kicked spirit from Tempest and upped the hit, no other trade-you get the same hit as Malefic, 184 spir for 48 hit. now you are (equipping all T6) at 143 hit, +15 spell Strike enchant, 1 + 5 hit/+6 sta gem<<- 1 hit capped >> , and the rest of the gems you can slot damage, for (10*12dmg)=120 damage. Still think that spirit is useful, fire/frost mages? Also, a more likely trade would be 84 spirit for ~48 hit, so you'd be keeping some spirit if this were still balanced in item budget. I just feel that Blizz has different ideas about mage itemization than it's players seem to.

For non raiders or those just starting say, Kara-
If you don't know why I keep harping on spell hit, and you wonder why anyone would want, say, Spellstrike hood over the welfare epic S1/S2 pvp helm because the stats appear so much more burly on the S1, here's why: Hit>Dam>haste(with enuf to make a diff)>Crit>penetration if you're not in the arena. This truism is not mentioned enough on this site or thottbot, IMO. But if you're going to do end game content, it's gospel. And in the good guilds, who are seriously analyzing who is doing what damage with what spells, interrupting properly, debuffing/decursing, etc, not having your rotation on lockdown with your spec and gear means someone else gets your spot. Whereas you might just pwn peeps in 5 mans, never be ousted from number one, when you get into engame its like college and the pros.

The math just backs it up, in raid bosses 3 lvls higher than you, if you don't have hit, your crit and damage don't mean $#!t. Check out Elitist Jerks website: if you doubt its all spelled out. Wow i sound like johnny cochrane there. Anyways,
Good luck all- food for thought

Comment by 10954

The alternative gear options available to fill the other slots warrant an 8 piece bonus for the full set in my opinion.

Comment by FinnrSlayer

Tier 6 For Dummies!(Where they drop)
Head Piece - Hyjal Summit - Archimonde
Gloves Piece - Hyjal Summit - Azgalor
Shoulders Piece - Black Temple - Mother Shahraz
Leggings Piece - Black Temple - Illidari Council
Chest Piece - Black Temple - Illidan Stormrage
Bracer Piece - Sunwell Plateau - Kalecgos
Belt Piece - Sunwell Plateau - Brutallus
Boots Piece - Sunwell Plateau - Felmyst

______ of The Forgotten Conquerer - Priest - Paladin - Warlock
______ of The Forgotten Protector - Warrior - Hunter - Shaman
______ of The Forgotten Vanquisher - Mage - Rogue - Druid

You can exchange the Tokens to gear at Enterance of Hyjal Summit.
Also Exchangable for Season 2 Parts or S3 BG parts

Comment by 24122

was anyone dissapointed by the lack of another set bonus when they made it a 6 piece set?

Comment by Pyradin

You guys are talking too much into fire and frost. You don't stop to think how this would benefit we arcane mages, with our (far) increased mana regen, and our massive bonus to Intellect.

Comment by 195606

The helm looks like a energy sword...

Comment by 909203

Very nice set for transmogrification

Drops:

Chestpiece drops off Illidan Stormrage in Black Temple (Final boss)

Gloves drop off Azgalor in Mount Hyjal (boss 4)

Helm drops off Archimonde in Mount Hyjal (final boss)

Leggings drop off The Illidari Council in Black Temple (boss 8)

Shoulders drop off Mother Shahraz in Black Temple (boss 7)

Bracers drop off Kalecgos in Sunwell Plateau (boss )

Belt drops off Brutallus in Sunwell Plateau (boss 2)

Boots drop off Felmyst in Sunwell Plateau (Boss 3)

Comment by Measa

This set works for all races but gnomes. They tend to be mistaken for darts and tossed at the boss.
Was working to get this set on my mage before MoP launched and kept loosing badges to Rogues and Druids.

Comment by forgottenring

I doubt Blizzard will do anything about it, but the 2 pc of this set needs to be updated for fire and frost since evocation is arcane only now.

Comment by BotmanR

Jaina Proudmoore will be wearing this gear as a purchasable skin in Heroes of the Storm.

Comment by Eido

The transmog set: Tempest Regalia

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Tempest Regalia

Tempest Regalia is the Tier 6 Raid Set. It contains 8 pieces.

	Cowl of the Tempest (1)
	Gloves of the Tempest (1)
	Leggings of the Tempest (1)
	Mantle of the Tempest (1)
	Robes of the Tempest (1)
	Boots of the Tempest (1)
	Bracers of the Tempest (1)
	Belt of the Tempest (1)

Tempest Regalia

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