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Stop the Frost Resist Insanity!

Even though I have many alts and things I could be doing, I often stand around Dalaran on my 80s, like ya do. One of my favorite things is to look for people wearing really stupid gear. You know, hunters in spellpower leather…hunters in defense gear…okay so hunters are really dumb sometimes. Anyways, one of the most glaringly obvious offenses, the one that really drives me nuts – mages in frost resist epics.

At first, back when Wrath started, you could have pawned it off that you just got fresh off a Sapphiron kill (Despite the fact that you didn’t really need it.) But time and time again, long past its scant usefulness, I see mages running around in the trademark azure blue of fail. Why do people do this? Even as far back as Burning Crusade, I used to see mages and warlocks in the epic arcane resist gear too. Is it the draw of the stamina? I’ve seen people trying to pass it off as PVP gear, but with no trinkets in sight. And every time I inspect them, there’s terrible gems of all colours, rarity and cuts. Epics do not necessarily mean better, people. I know none of you wonderful readers are in this category, being smart and logical people.

But really? Really? There’s nothing you could gem for, even with epic gems, that would really beat out solid blues over the epic frost resist pieces. Why would you sink the mats and money into something like this? Go make something else for your tailoring skill-ups! Stop thinking this is a good idea! Step away from the tailoring window, kiddo, and come with us.

Here’s a screenshot of an anonymous offender:

Well let’s see here. Epic gem with two green-rarity cuts. Mana per 5 enchant. Pure intellect cut. This is a hot mess, you know?

I feel bad that there are thought processes in players that lead them to believe that any and all epics must be good. It’s the same process that leads people to not understand what stats mages need! This is why I started this blog, but this is just beyond my understanding. These things take so much resources to create and they are so useless. If you want easy PVP epics, run heroics for badges and buy appropriate gear or go be a squishy arcane mage in Wintergrasp for a while. Save your time and gold for buying craftables from Ulduar or TOC, or just…you know, stop spending money and spend more time reading about mages first and plowing through dungeons and quests for gear. Because stuff like this makes you look like a moron.

If you see anyone like this, take their hand gently and link them this entry.

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