Tobold's Blog Monday, January 28, 2008 Extreme specialization
My mage in World of Warcraft is an exercise in extreme
specialization. He is specialized in frost damage, and nothing
else. I hit level 50 during the weekend, which meant that he can
now use Flasks of Supreme Power, giving +70 to spell damage.
Expensive, but it's okay, my warrior can make them and gather
the mats. So with the flask, the wizard oil, and all of the "of
the frozen wrath" armor my mage is wearing, he now has over +350
to frost spell damage. My frostbolts do over 700 points of
damage, nearly 1500 for crits, and as mobs of my level have less
than 3000 health, I can kill them with 2 to 4 bolts. They rarely
ever reach me.  I have an addon named Recount, which measures
damage per second. Funnily my level 50 mage does more dps on a
level 50 mob than my level 70 protection warrior does on a level
70 mob. Because the warrior is also specialized, but in tanking.
That works well in groups, but not all that well in soloing and
PvP. Soloing with