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I don't understand the purpose of having a 1.5 sec 50% move reduction with blizzard at 8.1. Is it that each time a mob get touch by blizzard it get slowed for 1.5 sec? Or one time per blizzard cast? It seems completely useless to slow a mob for 1.5 sec, I mean remove all slow together would almost f...

I'd just add regarding 3) That during combustion FB will have time to reload during the combustion windows while PF in gone for 45 sec. So you should start with FB continue with 2 PF and go back to FB, provided you don't have a bracer proc, to maximize the number of Pyro.

@sonnci There are several build that can be competitive. It depends mostly on firestarter/pyromaniac and belt/ring for second legendary. The playstyle is not the same, and the crit built seems to be the most enjoyable, provided you have enough crit to reach 60-65%, but haste build with the belt may ...

So the question raised by giermund would be more about rotation with pyromaniac and out of combustion. If your normal rotation is Fireball->Fireball->(if heating up) Fireblast->Pyro->Fireball You should replace it with Fireball->Fireball->(if heating up) Fireblast->Pyro-> (If hot streak) -> pyro OR ...

If you want to maximize DPS use frost. If you want to enjoy playing stick to fire.

I started using pyromaniac and find it add a fun part on our rotation, so thank you PREHEET for this guide. I also notice that when out of combustion sometime: Fireball (heating up)-> Fireball (Fireblast on cast) ->Pyro ->proc=pyro ->proc=pyro and beeing able to chain like 2-4 pyro in a row ending w...

Indeed. A sim is made to check what is the best for your CURRENT setup. That include mostly: Set piece Talents Legendary Triquets Other stuff. Each time you change one of these your sim will be out of date. Change one important talent (kindling vs meteor) and you're going to screw everything out. On...

The problem with mastery is that sim is not so good to evaluate how much dual target time we can spend in a fight, but according to your sim I would keep stacking haste as first priority and mastery as second.

Mastery should be much more valuable at this point than haste. I found balancing mastery and haste the most efficient for my build, but as usual it depend on talents, leg, trickets, etc... so you should sim yourself.

I guess timing. You get bump anyway so the faster you blink after being bump the further you advance. Might be related to lag as well, it's not so easy to time correctly to stay "exactly" at the same place.

Missing Arcanocrystal under 910, seems it could helpful for those lucky enough to have it.

No there isn't as far as I can see. And I would be very happy if people more cleaver than me would be kind enough to make it

I think most difficult part with fire mage is to find a good balance between AOE and ST. Basically ST means seek haste and versatility and AOE means seek haste and mastery, PROVIDED you have the legendary and set that help with crit, mostly 2p t19, and the belt and that's not your case, so keep stak...

I think all aoe does not affect fel Explosives, and it means all no single target are aoe including phoenix flames.
However I agree I haven't found a good way to deal with them with approx 300K HP it require a fire ball or something which is far too long to cast.

The wrist is not good for aoe. It may be good to use wrist and head to balance aoe and ST. IHMO you are correct for ST only/AOE only setup.

I think you assume well...

Looking at my logs, my FBL are doing a bit less than 50% damage than pyroblast (47% to be exact). So if FBL was taking more than 47% time to cast as Pyro it would be worth hardcasting Pyro. According to your 0.8 sec FBL cast time vs 2 sec Pyro hardcast time... it's never worth it. Maybe you damage r...

Having myself the same legendary and therefore the same problem, I'm digging a bit tying to get get something out this glove. The below is only the result of a theory I was thinking of, I havn't tested it yet, I havn't confirm it would have good result, but I'll appreciate any feedback of those who ...