As far as the gear choice criticisms, it looks like no ICC gear was chosen as this is a start of 3.3 guide. The T9 Heroic chest is a bit more balanced than the Skyweaver chest, which is really the only chest with hit that is even arguably better outside of ICC or Frost badges. I also rate Tarasque over Mortalis if you need the hit. If you don’t need the hit then Mortalis is better. However, Law apparently chose this slot to pick up some hit, which isn’t a bad choice. Tarasque is off the first TOC boss (bosses?) and is pretty easy to come by if you’re in a 25man raiding guild. (Mortalis is out of the Tribute chest after killing Heroic Anub25…btw you may be competing with some healers for this bad boy too if it drops because of the lack of hit like Holy Paladins.)

NMIC in ICC is great for some fights and average for others. There are relatively few fights so far that don’t require target switches, which can make it difficult to role the crit throughout. If I had the two trinkets in his set, which unfortunately I didn’t when ICC dropped, I would have used that pair instead of NMIC for most fights, like LDW, the boat, and Saurfang. Festergut being an exception, where NMIC is great because you can roll the crit to 35% then refresh to get the Death’s Embrace bonus then roll crit again.

The spec is exactly what I had when ICC dropped. If you know your tank can handle it, fine. If you don’t, then give the tank a little extra time to get aggro then go to work. Always spec for highest DPS on new content when the enrage timers may get tight. As you move into ICC gear, Spirit will drop significantly and moving the point from Cataclysm to Dark Pact will be important due to mana issues with Life Tap. The gear in ICC, especially the tier, has a lot less Spirit, and I’m already starting to feel it on my gear set.

Lastly, the best set bonus in the game for Afflic is probably the T9 4pc. It is unknown how the T10 4pc bonus is going to play with Affic as DoTs do not always scale unless recast with %damage buffs. The T9 2pc is a joke; ignore it for Afflic. The T10 2pc is mediocre. In my calcs I got that the T9.5 (nonheroic) Head/Shoulder for T10.0 Head/Shoulder change was basically neutral with the better stats on the T10 but downgrade in set boni.

Anyways, there’s my 2 cents. Sorry, didn’t mean to write an impromptu article. Good luck dominating in ICC!

any luck on frost mages builds?

I also find it strange that you chose to put the heroic t9 chest on this toon, since there are better chest spots in even pre-ICC gear. Either, way, you should’ve had the t10.5 gear and the Ashen Band of Endless Destruction ring. As has been pointed out the Glyph of Quickened Decay > Glyph of CoA. I also found it strange that for this “BiS” gear list you put in heroic Barb of Tarasque rather than Mortalis.

With the change of heroic t9 to t10.5, h BoT to Mortalis, Flare of Heavens to Nevermelting Ice Crystal, Conductive Seal to Ashen Band of Endless Destruction you lose roughly 70 SP (after averaging procs) and gain 62 crit, 181 haste and a fairly massive +20% crit to corruption ticks as well as much much better set bonuses.