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I havent't played legion, but i liked the firemage in WoD . although it didnt do good damage early expac i liked the spec a lot (old combustion mechanism, living bomb spreading with inferno blast, that stuff). Ive always been a loyal fire-mage, and never did much with frost and arcane. I started aga...

What i don't understand is what happens with trait DPS when looking at AoE. I get why wildfire pulls ahead ST, so i was thinking when the 5th ring on azerite is introduced it might be worth getting both wildfire and blastermaster traits on gear. both do well on single target, and i would have though...

Pyroclasm is viable but i think it does considerably less damage then blaster master builds. Ive been playing pyroclasm since the start of Uldir and at the start of this tier was able to get good logs with it. Compared to my guildies it was bad though... but since fire received 2 flat buffs the DPS ...

Cool stuff, somehow ive missed this. got me some azerite gear with this trait and don't need much gear to get to that level of haste (only some good rng :)). Hopefully i will get to try it before that predicted nerf is there. Outside haste, what stat would generally work best with this rotation? ver...

Hi folks, I am not really into mythic + except for recreative runs with guildies. Ive been lazily taking pretty much the same talents as i do with raiding except taking FP or LB for dungeons. we arent running very high keys (7-8 is average). LAtely ive been running more dungeons and been looking mor...

i was wondering about this myself a few days ago and looked at the last minute of a Taloc kill i had. i wass scorching for 7.8k average instant pyroblasts crit hit for 10k, and crit for 20k pyroclasm hit for 35k and crit for 74K. pyroblasts crit roughly 50% of the time. 7.8x3 = 23.4 k damage guarant...

my highest simming build is also with pyroclasm. And although RoP sims higher than IF, i have been picking IF most of the time. Ive been ignoring most sims as i seem to lack the skill to effectively make use of burst with RoP (and meteor). Instead ive been stacking crit (followed by equal amounts of...

Im not an expert at simming so i hop onto bloodmallet to pick the best ones. an example from bloodmallet: it says 'Overwhelming power' is the best trait for me. and it shows how much damage is added per trait. 303 for 1 trait 475 for 2 traits and 669 for 3 stacks. The second best is heed my call wit...

thanks. yeah thats basically what i do now... shame :) no dps increase to be gained there i guess :D. still thanks all fir the replies. i had another question though. after seeing the firat logs favoring high crit mages ive been experimenting with higher crit builds to see wether its really just goo...

1) ive read some comment on some forum about firemage aoe that said it was beneficial for firemage to switch targets while on AoE frequently. but i can't thibk of a reason why this would be benefecial, except for maybe switching to ensure a high health target will live trough the duration of ignite....

I classified Taloc as fire-friendly because he starts at 60% HP. With searing touch talented that means you get execute for half the fight. Mother i havent done HC yet. our guild cleared normal last week and after that only killed HC Taloc. But on normal i didnt need scorch during wind, i could con...

I classified Taloc as fire-friendly because he starts at 60% HP. With searing touch talented that means you get execute for half the fight. Mother i havent done HC yet. our guild cleared normal last week and after that only killed HC Taloc. But on normal i didnt need scorch during wind, i could cont...

Im not sure how that graph is composed, but it is a graph shwoing data for mythic. If you check heroic fire mage is very much near the bottom. even if you only show the data from the last day. Factors in firemages showing up high might be 1) mythic is not cleared yet, and Taloc seems to be very fire...

I think we are vey Lucky to receive a buff this soon after Uldir is out. Im fairly certain this isnt their final balance patch either, it is most likely a quick and dirty way of making the differences less extreme. shaving a few percentages from the top, and giving that to the bottom specs. it won't...

hey you, think i just gotcha on Blizzard forum in the same discussion ;) You could be right, just as the other dude who theorized on blizz forums that it was due to crit being a more forgivable stat on high movement. current logs feature many of the same mages across fights, but the fairest comparis...

well... 1 raid night in, and i see many fire mages in top 10 doing particulairly well with high crit. lucky shots because more crit=more rng? i don't think i am very happy with the damage that comes from a haste-ST build so far, but its a bit soon to start whining. I do feel inspired though to go ag...

According to my own simming stats for AoE in 335~340 gear with suboptimal secondary stats (I have to much crit, but I keep getting high item-level upgrades with crit XD) Int -> haste for AoE with flamepatch Mastery -> INT for AoE without flamepatch INT -> Versatility = Haste for single target with F...

Actually a coincidence. I didn't even know this song until now. :lol: Impact has been my Online Name for like 8-10 years now. Don't even know how i came up with this name. :? I played Mystical Ninja on the N64 back in the day, and when I read your introduction 'i am impact' i couldnt help but readi...

I am Impact,

awesome ! coincidence? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvfFIfbEHHI

When I said it was strongest and most fun when it is all about building hot streaks, I meant that playstyle becomes exceedingly more fun and stronger when it has things that support it. I didn't mean strongest for the spec, but I understand that I didn't make that clear enough at first. i i see... ...