Rawr Mage with all the buffs set shows the following relative value for mage dps from the buffs:

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With full buffs my mage’s theoretical max dps in current gear is 6175.47.

If I reset the simulation with actual buffs available during last week’s Sapphiron fight, we get the following chart and my theoretical max dps drops to 4520.38. I think this illustrates for the whole raid how important it is to stack all the buffs/debuffs that we can. I have heard from another raiding guild that when they look at the stats for a recruit they add another 1000dps to determine what they will do in their raids.

Here are the buffs I used to make the rawr charts - I may have missed some because of different naming conventions:

I recognize that optimizing for the mage is not necessarily in the best interests of the raid as a whole. I wrote this up just to point out that we may be missing some significant dps because we are not stacking all the buffs/debuffs that we can.