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The buff was great, fire mage is actually middle pack spec now with decent RNG/gear. I managed to top 5 on mythic krosus today and I saw my DPS was a lot higher than usual. I would say give us another 3-4% damage increase and we'd be very solid. We wouldnt be OP but we would be middle-higher pack (t...

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Streaming raids Fire/Frost and some M+ in my spare time. Theorycraft a lot and have gotten several rank 1s and a rank 3 all stars in the past.

p1: not that big. scorch hits hard and is almost (if not exactly) the same cast time as gcd, so combustion will be fine. p2: you got the idea all wrong. you S-S-S-P-FB-P and don't munch anything if done correctly. but after the fix blizz did for pyro to predict HS proc it is not worth the effort. f...

This is the best thing i've read in a long time, thanks for informing us about the bug fix. Its been irritating me especially since i started playing frost a bit with double ice lance mechanic

To OP: Its never worth hard casting pyro unless its for legendary bracer proc. EVER. Even if youre in Chronomatic Fast phase with lust + hero + 2 trinket procs. To questions about trinkets: Whispers > Metronome for DPS on sim for the same ilevel (base HC/base mythic) To questions about real life vs ...

I assume that if you take meteor then you will still be using it during execute phase. My question is though if using CiS on cooldown during execute is optimal? I feel like with scorches low cast time it would be a dps decrease. Yes you do use meteor. In regards to CiS, i've done A LOT of theorycra...

A lot of mages on every scorch belt thread say the same thing and its usually too constricting. There is no necessary rule regarding Scorch and Fire Blasts. All that matters is that you dont overuse Phoenix Flame (you want to save them for combustion if you are going to get another one in fight, or ...

I will admit i was wrong, meteor is affected by haste. TIL i guess. @dropingbombs your opener is not good because you are not casting meteor with full stacks of PI. Please read the opening post/1st page to understand the math and reasoning as to why the opener i wrote is optimal. Anyway i've been no...

I wouldnt ever say hard casting a pyro is worth it unless your getting to a point where your haste is so high that any more haste wont reduce fireball but will reduce pyro which is almost impossible right now. Munching hot streaks from fireball is simply misplay and misplay should not cause you to c...

I havent seen anyone post the real answer so i will go ahead and do so: Its not a stop casting macro or a line of sight issue like many people here claim. Its a documented bug where if you play with higher than 100-150 ping, your shimmer will most likely interrupt your cast. Sometimes when you play ...

If you have around 50% Crit and you take into account that Meteor is only about 35% as effective as usual, Kindling begins to pull ahead for this fight. The way you find out what to use is as follows: The DPS Value of Meteor (Non-DoT) *0.33 vs DPS decrease of Kindling on SimCraft. For me, my dps dif...

Also, Meteor fall speed is NOT affected by haste. The reason you cant cast RoP and combustion before Meteor starts is because of the global cooldown that Meteor incurs. Mathematically you should be able to cast ROP and combustion before meteor but because of latency sometimes you cant. The best thi...

Also, Meteor fall speed is NOT affected by haste. The reason you cant cast RoP and combustion before Meteor starts is because of the global cooldown that Meteor incurs. Mathematically you should be able to cast ROP and combustion before meteor but because of latency sometimes you cant. The best thin...

Ive been looking through the top parses for more single target oriented bosses like Krosus and Trilliax, and it seems to be a pretty even split between people who precast meteor before combustion and people who fit the meteor into the middle of their combustion. To me it *feels* better to precast t...

Personally my opening rotation goes like this. 4 seconds before pull Prepot,troll Racial, Mirror images 2-3 seconds Pre cast fire ball right before the end hit Combustion and 1 Fireblast. Meteor followed by Pyroblast, Fireblast, Pyroblast, Fireblast, Pyroblast, Pheonix, Pyroblast, Pheonix, Pyroblas...

So when we spec MI it is clear that we use meteor first then we combust. But what is the best way to burst when spec into RoP ? I cant really use meteor into rune into combust, the meteor drops before the rune cast is finished (I think due to gcd of meteor) Maybe it is just a visual, or maybe its b...

@Tieum 1) There is no reason to Combustion after your FB since theyre off global and mid cast, you should FB after Combustion since you get more ignite from it. 2) After your first Pyro there is no reason to FB again, its better to use Phoenix Flame to start the cooldown rolling. Your FB is already ...

@Noet, quick update: I just re-simmed my DPS with AF and i seemed to have gained 100 DPS from switching from flame on (it wasnt better before) and in AoE fights it would out perform. So the answer to your question would be: it depends on your class. If youre using dragons breath and AF you will have...

This legendary is the worst legendary you can get (i have it too). It has the worst DPS increase of all items. The movement mechanic and how its activated is really clunky. Most of the times when you need to move you can get away with shimmer and if you cant, then its a fight where you will never be...

@Noet No, if you have Darckli (I do myself) the dragons breath is just a stronger pyroblast you should fit at the very end of the combustion since it has a higher DPET. HOWEVER, having said that, i have 2 pyroblast relics and when i sim pyroblast is higher than dragons breath so if you have 2 pyro r...