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To Rinoa: I feel like the guide massively undervalues Flame Patch and implies that you don't really want to use it because Living Bomb. Unless add packs are huge, the stability of FP seems to produce better results for me. I'm inclined to agree. I altered the wording a bit in certain places. The pr...

when should one cast cinderstorm on ST fights after the intial CiS->combustion opener?

2 quick questions:

Why do the updated trinket lists both show that Arans+Chest sims lower than Arans by itself?

Also, why isn't Etheral Urn on the list? It doesn't seem that much lower than Aracnocrystal and is better than sinew.

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Final stand vs 890 nightbane chest? I already have legendary helm and shard. Getting this chest just feels crushing now with how bad it is :/ maybe im wrong. Worth replacing nightbane chest and helm/ring? Simming with the chest always puts be at a -dps. A bug or something I dunno If you have aran t...

Final stand vs 890 nightbane chest?

I already have legendary helm and shard.

Getting this chest just feels crushing now with how bad it is :/

maybe im wrong. Worth replacing nightbane chest and helm/ring? Simming with the chest always puts be at a -dps. A bug or something I dunno

Even if you were to play perfect you'll still be way behind bracers users. They ARE that strong. Look at many of the mages that used to get rank 1s in other expansions (check WCL) and without bracers we can't even get in top 50 this expansion, lol. Joke of an expansion if you don't get bis legendar...

the other mage got his kill ~70 seconds faster than you did, and he finished a combustion phase just at the end. I think those two things will make a pretty big difference.

even if I go dummy up and go two 2nd combustion end..I dont go higher than 420k dps and never peak at 2 million as he does.

looking more..feels maybe its just a bunch of small things really. He never stacked for cacophony, and team gives him 2 heros. SO way less movement. Has better relics (ignite) vs fireball on me. used a defiled rune..but not sure how he is still 1400 more int then me. And way more mastery vs my more ...

besdies a small mistake in my opener, I honestly can't see. My best opener has never topped 1.25 million at peak (missed a pyroblast. He had 7 I had 6). He hits over 2 million. Is it really just that much RNG? Ok so he had a neck proc hit for an additional 1.7 million I can't do. Thats fine. But I h...

Checking this mythic Ursoc Kill. https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/A1yjZV4LKhbz7t8g#type=damage-done&source=16" target="_blank Ilevel 882 Best pull I could do was ~380k, though this one was only 375k. However top mages are doing 600k-700k. I see they all have the bindings..but I can't see them li...

that doesn't work.

how would you explain this then?

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55 ilevels..still a downgrade. No amount int changing/balancing can fix this issue..when there isn't int on it. They need to work out all the secondaries.

I have the head piece and I dont have this issue.

they need to do something..this is just pathetic

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55 item level difference, over 1k more stats..still not an upgrade

>I struggle to get tanks to explain that my ignite passing to targets he is near is not me pulling by tab targeting I've been doing Mythic+ (and before it's released, Mythic) with the same tank. Sometimes I think he knows much more than me in the exact range of the ignite spreading and its odd perf...

>I have a screenshot of 6M DPS after a mob pull in karazhan was it with LB or flame patch? LB. The tank pulled half of the mobs in the theatre, and I was thrilled. so you living bombed an entire room of about 50+ mobs? Not uncommon. Living Bomb scales with more enemies, you can hardly use this as a...

>I have a screenshot of 6M DPS after a mob pull in karazhan was it with LB or flame patch? so you living bombed an entire room of about 50+ mobs? Not uncommon. Living Bomb scales with more enemies, you can hardly use this as a baseline for mage dps. Hell Ret Paladins can get 4-5 million in these pa...

thanks for this

wasn't aware. Thats helpful at least thanks

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makes it very hard to ready..
can't zoom in, can't change resolution..idk whats up with it. reinstalled multiple times.

whats the proper way to start out with Sinew if Herosim isn't used at the start of a fight. At 4k haste there isn't enough time to get off enough spells during RoP for Sinew to proc if you used Sinew even before the pull.