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In the opener described Phoenix flame is casted right after rop>Combu, I miss to see why do we use combu before PF since PF will always crit we waste a GCD on the combustion active time. The opener assumes you want to immediately start your "burn"; some examples of why you would want to do this inc...

Is it worth to start the combustion sequence with Cinderstorm to get 5 PI stack before the rest of the sequence (like Rop->Phoenix Flame->Combu<->Fireblast->Cinderstorm->Pyro... ) ? It's a good thought, but I see problems with both examples of how to make this work. First example: If we Hot Streak ...

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crit suppression should be gone unless I've missed something.

Well, I feel like an idiot. Thank you for pointing this out!

Any word on how the Aug 22nd nerf to Critical Mass affects Fire overall? Will this work as a buff while leveling / Dungeon Geared and nerf with Raid Gear? Any clues? If your char sheet crit chance post change is 32.5% or less it's a straight buff to all spells against an equal level target. Against...

I'd love to sim this all out myself, but sadly, I'm on a Mac, at least until I get home tonight. Hugely off-topic, but Simc should run fine on the Mac, are you seeing issues with it? The latest public release builds work fine on a Mac, but the latest release builds are still Patch 6.X from February...

Quick Napkinmath says this puts crit closer to int (likely below) in almost all cases. So the broad strokes will be the same, at least for the first tier. Not that simple, in my view. It has trickle down effects. For example, it's a nerf to Mastery and Kindling, but a buff to Cinderstorm. It certai...

Quick Napkinmath says this puts crit closer to int (likely below) in almost all cases. So the broad strokes will be the same, at least for the first tier. Not that simple, in my view. It has trickle down effects. For example, it's a nerf to Mastery and Kindling, but a buff to Cinderstorm. It certai...

With the last hotfix Blizzard wants to shift the value of Critical Strike: Fire Cinderstorm will no longer consume additional stacks of Ice Floes when damage occurs. Fire Mage critical strike chance has been increased by 5%. Critical Mass multiplier has been decreased to 1.1 (was 1.3). Developer's ...

I think I am a little confused when it comes to the artifact trait progression image. The image you have posted says to go for Pyretic first while other people I have spoken to say go for Phoenix Reborn should be first then Pyretic. Have I over looked something here? Also great work on this Frosted...

You can benefit from this in every scenario except when you BL at the very end of the fight, as far as I can tell. Though you're correct that you can't leverage this in your opener. Still, powerful item.

While it's possible that the proc chance is indeed bugged, it's also possible this is just RNG. Regardless of what's actually happening, though, I would like to point out that the math in this thread is not accounting for variable change. After each independent event, the probabilities change for th...

./shrug, that's how the sim turns out. Frost's current APL isn't optimized for Mark of Doom, right? I suppose it's technically not. What kind of optimizations would you try? I could try to make improvements to the PoF profile. Assuming PC, I imagine it's in the opener (much like with Arcane APL). A...

I agree with Rabona. HFA is a single-target fight disguised as an AoE fight. If you are progressing on it or have only killed it a time or two, I’d absolutely use the class trinket as Frost. That’s the same reason I just play Arcane on that fight – plenty of other classes can AoE better but my dama...

Related to the topic title, if not the topic content: Affliction Warlock buffs now put it up above Frost (and just below Arcane) in ST, Patchwerk dominance. The good news, though, if you're looking to protect your meters ranking—most warlocks in your guild will probably still insist on playing Destr...

Does anything exist ( like a macro or add on ) to target and cast ab at the target who have mark of doom ? The best would be a macro with which I could cast ab on my target, and a macro line that when there is mark of doom on an other tagret, it will switch to it. Is it possible with something? Tha...

Might have missed it but can 2T18 pets cause Doom to explode? On-topic: Pet or guardian damage does not proc it—only your direct damaging spells. Thanks for the explantion. I take it that's how Combustion helper works? It knows a mob named <whatever> has LB, but doesn't know which one specifically?...

Due to feedback like this thread, we've investigated and found that Unstable Magic was inappropriately procing Arcane Missiles. This was causing UM profiles by overperform by about ~2.5% on average in the sim. So until SC is updated I'll divide my results using UM by 1,025? (I'm on OS X so can't us...

Is it possible in WA or by creating an addon that tracks who has the debuff, and is then clickable so that you would focus that target? Unless Blizzard has changed their APIs significantly from the last time I dabbled, I believe this would actually be impossible. For starters, enemies generally do ...

I'm not sure anecdotes help us much here, either. One side will say simulations are devalued because they don't accurately reflect realistic scenarios. The other side will say anecdotes are devalued because of RNG. Neither side is right or wrong. I can only go off the logs that I believe to be yours...

There are a few classes that lose out by going from T17 4p to T17 2p + T18 2p assuming similar ilvls but Mages are not one of them so as the above posters have mentioned, get your 4 set ASAP. Here is the list of all classes if you are interested. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11aMBvCPghiv-...