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The iLvl of your items and how close you are to shatter cap will always have an impact on what is truly best, but I believe the current thinking is that Cloak/Gloves are going to be your best bet. I'd say get whatever you can and then sim yourself.

Also note that it is now for the entire duration of Combustion instead of a fixed time. So it means the Combustion extension trait gets a bit better with it. Was this confirmed by devs? Right now on live under the loot guide it still says increase 10% critical damage for 14 secs. Unsure if it has b...

Boss: Kil'Jaeden
Difficulty: Any
Spec: Frost
Tip: Even though damage taken is reduced by 99% during the first transition, casting Frostbolt will still reduce your CD on Icy Veins.

Incanters? You have a buff cycling a damage increase in one log, and Mirror Images in the other.

Edit: My Int/Stam went up during the night last night and nothing changed in my gear/talents. I think there's something just strange about when/how WCL snapshots your stats. I wouldn't worry about it.

This is from Guarm (about as patchwork of an opener as I can find). https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/DzhctVyxfjYBN3FR#type=damage-done&source=14&start=9367096&end=9439482" target="_blank In 71 seconds I had 22 Pyros, with Fireball only critting 50% of the time (terrible RNG) 26 isn't that crazy ...

If you want to track your progress on the colour variations run these 3 commands /run AddTrackedAchievement(11152) /run AddTrackedAchievement(11153) /run AddTrackedAchievement(11154) 11154 counts any dead players you damaged as well. This means you do NOT have to PvP, merely progress on Xavius or M...

Got mine a couple days ago while doing dailies in the Court area. Can confirm, AK5 + Random drop in Suramar.

Frost Nova behaves like this as well on trash packs.

I use the following: #showtooltip Frostbolt /cast [mod:alt] Water jet; /cast Frostbolt This makes it very easy to time the water jet since you can keep spamming the same button and merely hit the alt key part way through the cast to activate the jet. It's manual, but it makes the manual nature very ...

I haven't looked into why yet but my Ele has died twice on our last two heroic mannoroth kills during the last phase. Edit: 00:05:42.399 Mannoroth Empowered Glaive Thrust Water Elemental (Mageski) 13365 (A: 4619) 00:05:43.404 Mannoroth Puncture Wound Water Elemental (Mageski) Tick 87870 00:05:44.418...

Glad to be a part of this! Ignore my armory now as I now have Tome.

Can you post the simcrafts how this is affecting a Panda mage?

(I am not good at simcrafts)

It doesn't.

I think the question is more, is it still better if you're a Panda? I'll sim it when I get home tonight if someone doesn't beat me to it.

If it is, a race change may be in order.

Pretty sure Inferno Slash was stealth nerfed awhile back, is there still a need for those kind of tactics?

It's not. We use a rotation of 1-1-1 for our 3 groups now with 2 tanks and we are surviving fine.

Temporal Shield when you think of it was really ridicolous though. 15% damage reduction and self heal for a 25 second cd was pretty crazy

I'd kill for it on fights like Gruul though.

I'm an idiot. I'm using my normal Ice Block keybind that has a stopcasting line in it. >.<

The replay looks like you were slightly in front of the tank and to the right. As Myxel said, you need to be sure you're directly behind the tank for the knockback.

It does work on Gruul really well. My problem with it is that it interrupts us. With the tooltip saying you can use it while casting and that it's off the GCD, that seems like a poor description of what it actually does which is to stop your cast and activate.

Tested: Not fixed. If you are casting several AM stacks in a row, you can still have AM consume the charge without firing the extra missiles.

Once you get the 4-piece set bonus for Fire Mastery is better than Crit so its really easy - all Mastery all the time.

From what I've been reading, with the nerf to the 4p in 6.1, Crit is better again on pure single target.

Have 4p, just replicated it in my garrison. If you cast AM too fast after AB, you start your cast before the buff shows up so you don't get a bonus, but it's still consumed at the end. Not sure how often this happens practically.