Clearcasting and Arcane Missiles

[booleansphinx 0]

Hey, does anyone know how this works? Does each tick of Arcane Missiles have a chance to proc clearcasting or just the first?

[Roxanne Flowers 15]

At the moment I've got only a single talent point spent for it, so 2% chance per hit, but I've already seen it proc a few times.  It can proc on any spell hit, not just the first one.

Arcane Concentration - Rank 5/5
Gives you a 10% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.

Since most spells you can cast only "hit once" per casting, they'll only have one chance to proc Arcane Concentration per casting. Arcane Missiles hits multiple times per channeling and thus gets multiple chances to proc per casting.  It's one of the "hidden features" of playing as an Arcane Mage that is all too often discounted or forgotten, and is one of the bigger reasons why Arcane Mages can be more efficient generators of damage per mana spent, as opposed to putting up the highest damage per second results on the damage meters (which is all raiders seem to care about).

[quasexort 4]

I'm pretty sure that's not how it works on these servers.  It only has a chance to proc off the first hit, same as with blizzard.

[Roxanne Flowers 15]

How peculiar then that I've seen Arcane Concentration proc IN THE MIDDLE of channeling Arcane Missiles already on Darrowshire.  Likewise, when channeling Arcane Missiles, any individual hit from the spell can be Resisted, but that only affects that ONE "shot" of the Arcane Missiles, while the rest can still do damage (and do actually do damage).  That's because unlike Fireball and Frostbolt, which are All Or Nothing spell attacks, Arcane Missiles is actually FIVE attacks sequenced to happen over 5 seconds of channeling.

Arcane Concentration - Rank 5/5
Gives you a 10% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.

Chance to proc per Fireball: 10%

Chance to proc per Frostbolt: 10%

Chance to proc per Arcane Missiles: 1-(0.9^5) = ~41% ... because you roll the dice 5 times per 5 second channel casting.

Your turn.

[quasexort 4]

Well must be using different scripts on Darrowshire if what you say is true.  I just went to test it because maybe it was changed to the way you describe it, so I did about 20 AM casts and it only proc'd twice and the two procs both occurred on the first missile.  It's also the same with blizzard, only the first blizzard tick can proc CC.  By the way I play on Anathema so maybe it's different on Darrowshire/Elysium/Zeth'Kur.

[shibse 0]

41% proc with arcane missiles. I loled in rl

[Roxanne Flowers 15]

Well at least someone was amused ... ^_~

[Sabre 5]

2 hours ago, Roxanne Flowers said:

Well at least someone was amused ... ^_~

Arcane is a novelty and nothing more.

[Whitewolf 1]

On 2/26/2017 at 1:06 AM, Sabre said:

Arcane is a novelty and nothing more.

Every spec besides combat rogues, dual wield warriors, and shadowbolt warlocks are useless except to buff or heal these 3 specs. Congrats you win the minmax. sounds fun having 30 rogues, warriors, and warlocks right?

[quasexort 4]

15 hours ago, Whitewolf said:

Every spec besides combat rogues, dual wield warriors, and shadowbolt warlocks are useless except to buff or heal these 3 specs. Congrats you win the minmax. sounds fun having 30 rogues, warriors, and warlocks right?

Go ahead and play an Arcane Missiles spec.  I'm interested in seeing how you do in raid.

[Whitewolf 1]

1 minute ago, quasexort said:

Go ahead and play an Arcane Missiles spec.  I'm interested in seeing how you do in raid.

Oh I know how it performs, and I also know that not every team cares to minmax raid composition because it is a game. Heck, you can complete a lot of content with raids using a single class. Is it always easy or efficient? No, but it's fun. Arcane is more than viable for any content in the game, it just can't outperform some other specs.

As I said before, if you aren't one of those 3 specs other than healer and one of 3 or 4 buff bots you don't have an optimal set up. Frost mage can't compete with shadowbolt, period except in shadow resistant cases.