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My experience has been kindling >> CS. If you are doing higher stones, you will get 2x combusts per boss and the fight lengths are perfect for kindling. Also the ability to combustion burst on trash more often to deal with the problem pulls/mobs is invaluable. In 10+ the priority burst is just way m...

Just spamming your procs will definitely do less damage than weaving. Remember PC is basically just a % damage buff, so there is not some magical reason that spamming procs would be better when its not during the normal rotation. These are the only situations I ever cast ice Lance without Frostbolt ...

Has anyone tried using Evanesce as seed is casting on Fel Lord? I'm assuming it would immune it if timed correctly like the curse on Manno or Fel/Void surge but I haven't actually tested it.

My own experiences say go with AB X2 then PC if it hasn't procced yet. A major factor for me was our ring timing - we have rogues popping the ring within 1s of pull every time so using any of the slower openers results in a lot of wasted Nithramus buff (and lower explosion damage). I think people ne...

Trinkets are rather simple, aren't they? In general you probably want to have Tome, Prophecy and Gaze. With Frost you always want to always use Tome and one of the other two trinkets, which sim almost equally. With Arcane Tome mainly gives you short windows of ST burst and nothing in-between, so if...

I have seen a few good arcane logs for Gorefiend using OP, but that is simply due to the nature of the fight. And obviously it will be very RNG as far as AM procs. If you get lucky it can do a lot for that specific fight though.

I'm not trying to make it out like SN is gamebreaking on those fights or something, but when the talents are as close as they are in pure patchwork sims it doesn't take much to push SN over the top for actual in-game usage. That was more my point. People will look at Fel Reaver and think "single tar...

Something else to consider is the actual value of SN on a lot of the HFC fights. For Mythic: Assault: Burst when you need it, can also use it to interrupt engineers and pre-meta fel casters. Reaver: Bombs. They are #1 dps priority and often spawn close enough to cleave with SN. Its also great for bu...

/use Draenic Intellect Potion
/use Fruit Basket
/use Ice Floes
/use Arcane Blast
#showtooltip Fruit Basket

Remember Fruit Basket range is shorter than AB range, so if you aren't close enough you will not use it and thus not get the double proc.

You can't really judge by looking at top mage armories during progression. Gems and enchants are cheap and will change constantly depending on what fight is being done and even what strategy is being tried at the time. Fire is most likely the second spec for now because Xul'huroc is the current prog...

I have the same thing. For me (710 ilvl 4pc no class trinket) UM + PC sims higher for single target by ~600 DPS. Even on pure single target bosses I find SN/PC to be performing better consistently despite what my sim results say. This also has me switching back to mastery gems/enchants after the 130...

You can always delay your second crystal by 10-15 seconds provided you have a good idea of the fight time and won't be losing a potential useage. This would fix the de-sync issue and allow you to do an extended burn on the opener to make use of Time Warp on the evo.

You misunderstood him, you don't lose your second potion. You just lose 1-2 seconds of your pre-pot since you are using it a little bit earlier before you use the toy.

Yes, I understand that. But specifically for me, on almost every Fire fight I start in my arcane spec and pop MI as the pull timer begins. This uses 5 seconds, and then about .5 seconds to regen enough mana for pyro which ends up cutting it very close as far as having the spell in the air when comba...

The Fruit Basket think works great for me as arcane, definitely preferable to using ABarr. What are peoples thoughts about using Fruit Basket + Fireball for fire? This gives you double the chance to get both trinket procs at the cost of pre-casting Fireball instead. You can't use it with Pyro becaus...

I found the opposite to be true. For us, sub 20% bursting Marak was not a problem at all. With hero + CDs, he was dying quickly with most of the raid alive almost every time. For us the biggest block was Sorka, and playing fire for the cleave to have her lower when Marak dies was better. IMO the rea...

Interestingly enough I'm starting to see some extremely high parses on Mythic Maidens and even Operator using PC. Most are still Kindling though. What are peoples thoughts on this? Its kind impossible to use Simcraft for an answer with the 2pc IB trick being hard to implement atm. Example: https://w...

Use the 4pc. Not only will 4pc be worth more than a single 30 ilvl upgrade in pretty much any slot, but the tier chest has mastery whereas that mythic one does not. PS: you should just sim that kind of question yourself. Its very easy to just import once with 4pc and once with the mythic chest. That...

1. RoP uptime is only 87%. It looks like you just kind of forgot to refresh it at the end - get a WA or some other addon to yell at you when the buff is missing. 2. You saved your on use trinket for AP, which can be good but not with that long of a fight length. You could have gotten 3 full uses whi...

The only other way you would be at 100% is by spamming AM procs. Remember to always AB if you are above 93%, even if you have AM procs. So you end up kind of weaving AB -> AM -> AB -> AM - you never want to just sit at 100% mana spamming AM.