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I actually wonder a bit about this, because the current theories in terms of how to play PC-Fire all discuss the ideal situation on what to do (PC -> Build ignite -> double IB), but not a lot of discussion on what "Plan B" is when it fails, ie. PC -> Fireball+Pyro both don't crit, IB still not yet ...

The mechanic is genius, and alot of fun to play. Its a different way of playing fire. It's a pretty simple mechanic to use in my opinion, and only adds to DPS variance. Not sure why people like it and I personally would rather not have the tier set in the game to increase the value of crit so the s...

Hard to really give tips that work for every single scenario since RoP placement is very situational but generally you want to be on the edge of your RoP so you can use the space in RoP more efficiently when ground effects are targeted on you. Where you stand in the RoP depends a lot on the fight an...

Using 2 SN right away with using berserking before crystal to get incanter's flow at 4-5 stacks instead of 2-3 with max stacks of crucible just doesn't seem worth it. 4-5 stacks is just over 7% increased SP using the SN, but you lose the higher stack of the trinket, potentially fitting one less spel...

His two supernovas were at 7 and 9 stacks for the first one, which isn't efficiently using the trinket's proc, and from what I can see he is minimally capping mana in his openers (especially on the third one from what I can see) which can affect burst damage and/or consistency depending on procs. De...

Doing this is wasting mana being capped, higher chance at overwriting a proc, and wouldn't be using the proc at it's max stacks. If you trinkets proc off your first AB, which they usually do, you only need to cast 3 AB and PC which for me with lust and haste trinket is just barely over 5 seconds and...

Definitely AO/ NT. During progression I always did boats and there is no choice other than AO for that tier since the mob on the boat would be kited out of the PC and on the "ground" there is no reason to take PC because of the cleave. Overpowered could potentially be better than AO for boat damage ...

Why would you want your trinkets to proc earlier? If anything you want it to proc delayed so you have more guaranteed time with the procs during PC or just simply at 4 stacks. ABarr also does so little damage I don't see why you want to get an extra one off at the cost of losing a global at the star...

I made a simple test on dummies at my Garrison. Fireball at dummy 1 only to get some ignite. Fire Blast Fire Blast. Then i switch target to dummy 2. The ignite on dummy 2 is not bigger than the ignite on Dummy 1. In other words, i dont think that the ignite spread by Fire Blast stacks. Am i wrong? ...

link program? working with a black-box is kind of difficult. It was just a program I made in java late at night with just the intention of calculating those probabilities, it isn't by any means user friendly or coded to accommodate extraneous input data or anything. If you have an IDE for Java I ca...

I just did to see how quickly the chance to cap on procs ramped up to compare if its worth to drop stacks with more than one missile proc with a different amount of spells casted in between. I wonder if it's worth looking into then? Either that, or adopting a more defensive AM use strategy when you...

Why would you munch? You would just AM at 3 stacks during your conserve 4AC build and have a higher mana % going into your 4AC AM / AB weaving, or for when you are going into your non-opener burn. Munching is never fully avoidable, because you can't react in time to using a new 3 stack before initi...

Although the title is about how likely munching is, its more about how likely you will have to use a missile proc early. I just did to see how quickly the chance to cap on procs ramped up to compare if its worth to drop stacks with more than one missile proc with a different amount of spells casted ...

It's based off the base duration of the DoT, so it's always 3.6s for LB.

Yeah I know, just wasn't sure if it considered the base duration to be less than 12 when it is spread to a target with less than 12 seconds on the dot. Thanks for clarifying.

Something that I've been doing is trying to increase the amount of LB explosions I can have by spreading a LB, then reapplying LB on my target. When the original spread LB has exploded, I spread the LB on my target back to the adds. This means I have an explosion every ~8-10 seconds. I assume that ...

LB -> IB spread -> Switch to a different add with LB on it and IB spread again (requires 2pc) Wouldn't this just overwrite the existing Living Bombs - with a duration the same as before? Nope. The living bombs benefit (weird word to use since its not a benefit) from pandemic. What I think the OP is...

So from reading some questions people had about if they can drop arcane charges with missile procs through evo with the goal of shortening the burn phase and using the missile proc at high mana instead of low mana, I decided to write a program to calculate the probability of munching a missile proc ...

Yeah I don't understand that also, the only time I have ever overwritten a proc is when I get one in my opener and I get no missile procs and the 4pc has procced again before I got an AM proc, but even then I would be at 4 stacks the whole time.

I noticed that the pandemic effect doesn't work on living bomb when its refresh from a bomb spread by inferno blast. The pandemic effect works - in fact, that's why it doesn't explode. The "not exploding if refreshed through spreading" part is something that has been around since beta, and I haven'...

It would probably be quite a big bonus because arcane orb is not a spell you can use directly on CD and having 2 charges will increase the number of times you can use AO by quite a bit. Although it is quite an unbalanced idea to add this in with no loss, but if the cooldown were to be increased with...