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Thank you everyone for your contributions. I just noticed that i forgot to take the 3% reduced chance to crit bosses into account, which means as a Heroic raider, I can't reach Crit cap anyway... at least, not without breaking my 4-set bonus for Mannoroth legs and Tyrant Gloves. Which makes the DPS ...

Kinda noobie question. If anyone hasn't noticed, the medallion PvP crit trinkets (the ones that break you out of CC and are [typically?] useless in PvE) have been buffed to give a huge crit bonus; over 8% more passive crit per trinket. And with a new PvP season in 6.2.3, you can now buy another one ...

Hullo everyone. All my progression is pugged, and now that I'm pretty much comfortable with 8/10 bosses on HC, I've turned my attention to HC Blackhand. My most serious issue with pugging Blackhand is uninformed tanks moving the boss further than they need to, to avoid bombs. This makes predicting w...

^ exactly. You have a perfectly itemized Head, Wrist, and Cloak for Fire from the conquest gear (660 pieces with Crit+Mastery). Not to mention those Weapons (also 660, with Crit+Mastery), though I'm unsure if they're better than the Staff that drops from Imperator considering HC ilvl is 670. Though ...

I can confirm that this was fixed today

Thanks for the analysis Komma. I'll probably continue raiding as Frost until I gather enough conquest gear (which is more reliable in terms of itemization ... plus the set bonus...) and then I'll be making a switch to Fire. Good to see that all 3 specs are at least somewhat competitive now.

Understandable. Thanks for the hard work anyway guys/gals!

Interested if you'll ever take into account the PvP 2-set bonus "bug" for fire. There's been some speculation about it not being a bug, and I'm hoping if it is a bug, that it won't be fixed by the time Fire recieves a second set of tuning.

Is it a significant Dps increase?

For obvious reasons I don't think this will be staying.

Yeah, understandable. But fingers crossed they fix the spec before they axe the only thing making it even playable. A bug this huge is supposed to be game-breakingly-overpowered. But I just feel it lifted the spec from bad to average.

There's also a bug that's currently stopping Frostfire bolt from consuming the 2 set buff from the PvP set. I feel like I can actually do some damage again

My rotation is:
Scorch x3 > FFB x2 > Scorch x1 (to keep the buff) > FBB x2 > Scorch x1... etc.

With the usual Pyro camp and blast on proc.

Hello everyone! I enjoy PvPing, and usually gear up with a full Conquest set before stepping into my first raid every tier. With the advent of cool spec specific set bonuses, will this change my Fire rotation? I.e. In a raid/dungeon environment would it be a DPS gain to make use of my PvP set bonuse...

Yes, Scorch was made to be useable while on the move with the introduction of Cataclysm.Thanks for the testing either way! I will be trying this out this week... or the next... depending on how lucky I am with Crit pieces. Not very highly geared (and loads of Haste-Mastery gear), but will see how th...

So I've been goofing around on the Timless Isle now that I have my cloak. Mainly abusing it in World PvP :P. And I got super lucky with the Chi-Ji buff: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=147283/chi-jis-hope" target="_blank In my "World PvP" set (mostly Prideful items + Cloak + T16 nm 4 set), that transla...

Quick update: I recently switched to Arcane because mastery gear has been constantly dropping for me. I have since then experienced a significant boost in DPS. I also enjoy Arcane's playstyle and am finally glad to not need use that terrible Invocation :P. Rune of Power is a great talent... the only...

Thanks for the help everyone! Highly appreciate it. I'll post back when I have more questions. Gaze of Arrogance recently dropped for me, unfortunately it was LFR... so it was about 3k less spell power. I don't think I'll replace my weps any time soon :( I guess it's just the anti-pvp gear syndrome....

Currently using the Aldor regalia for Frost.
I'm trying to solo Firelands for a nice Fire set. But can barley get past the mobs... let alone any bosses

You can skip the following 4 paragraphs to the numbered list of questions. Thanks either way :) I've been doing PvP through WotLK and Cata. Stopped playing during Cataclysm, and returned to "retail WoW" (wink wink) shortly after they announced Warlords of Draenor. MoP did not interest me in the slig...