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Aran + Chest paired uses the 875 chest. The ilvl drop from using a 900 ilvl chest is dropping the dps.

Get your haste to 1800, but outside of that stack the crap outta crit.

I have not played mythic+ in beta, so not sure if this would be viable there. Currently, my group is pulling multiple trash groups and AoEing them down with interrupts on key mobs (Belf racial OP) and AoE stuns as needed. We pull enough that Living Bomb and Conflag become > 50% of my damage, I assum...

I just use my ROP on trash pulls. It's a fairly short CD. Trash pulls get way better once your tank/heals get a bit of gear and can group together 2-3 packs.

That's actually a pretty bad bug. I'll check it out today as well. It can really, really mess up your dps, especially in mythic+ if you bring 2 mage and such a bug exists.

Is it still a dps increase or not to cast flamestrike with hot streak on multiple enemies?

Yes.

It's not as simple as "Yes" Flamestrike means you are losing out on a potential HU proc. Need to run sims to find the exact number with and without flame patch.

SMP should be better. It does in-fact proc in conjunction with Combustion - it has a 115 second cooldown and takes a couple of seconds to activate, and lasts 15 seconds, so you should be able to have your combustion window during that period. If you ring on CD, it will line up with the ring as well.

Looking at just hfc using firestarter to "guarantee opening crits" on the opener. We will be burning the start of the boss very quickly, probably in the duration of opening Combustion, even if kill times are increased 4x from what they are before the pre-patch. Makes Firestarter much worse. Possible...

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How important is the 900 haste break point exactly? Would it be worth Gemming/Enchanting to? TLTeo's sims seem to indicate it would be, if I am reading his results correctly.