u/Grouchy_Honey_7

If im hanging out in a main city i can expect more than a couple of people whisp me for a portal or some mage juice, that's cool.

but if youre trying to get a mage to give you a portal, dont just spam whisper them with "port" "shatt" "want port" because im either going to pretend im afk, pretend i dont speak english, or try to charge you 20g for a shatt port.

if you walk up and say "hey, could you please help me get to shatt?" ill stop what im doing and make you a free portal straight away.

same goes for food, and no, im not finding another clicker just to make you a table while im getting ready for a raid or grinding my professions.

im also going to add that mage tables have a 5min cd, so if you ignore the table at the start of a dungeon and then start spamming party chat like its my fault for not keeping you hydrated, i will laugh at you.

TLDR: how do arcane mages manage their mana during long boss fights? And what advice would you give in general to someone who has played a lot of classic wow, but has never raided?

I got to LVL 70 a few weeks ago and straight after dinging my guild invited me to run mag and gruul despite having a pretty bad gear score.

It was my first ever raid and I got assigned to clicking (so no pressure, yay.)

Since then I've managed to get kinda geared, and my raid leader said that I should be able to pump and do a lot more dps, so I picked up an arcane off spec, and I'm doing so much more dps, but I find even with mana gems, mana pots and evocation that I oom too quickly in raid bosses. I looked up a guide that says you should mix frostbolt into your rotation when you're low on mana, but that just leaves me frostbolting until I do end up ooming. What do the arcane mages do to handle this?