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Having a little trouble understanding when to use Phoenix Flames. Ideally you want to be at 2 charges at all times (even with Firestarter) and have 3 for Combustion/dump it when Combustion is on? Yes, although you may use them while moving also depending on the encounter. It's a judgement call . As...

I just started learning about Fire. When you talk about rotation for precast fireball crit, you opt for Fireblast Pyroblast chain, why don't you open up with Phoenix Flames then Pyroblast, then do the Fireblast Pyroblast chain? That way one Phoenix Flames will be on CD for the duration of the Firebl...

@Herux, how do you make your WA appear all the time instead of triggering when an attackable target is selected?
Edit: Figured it out. Just have to delete trigger 2 on all the auras.

Hello! I have a question about some simming results, when i sim for 5 targets, with my gear the shard of the exodar keeps topping the soul of the archmage by a longshot. is it because I am simming wrong or is that normal? here are my simming results from raidbots: https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/re...

--Snip-- Stuff like the cats in DHT or wolves in HOV aren't tracked through a timer, it just comes down to knowing how often they leap. Just takes time and repetition. It also helps by being further away from them, as it gives you time to react to the leap. Yeah I still need practice/experience. Ho...

-snip- 1. It sometimes gets really close and I get antsy of the damage, or sometimes the healer can't keep us up/doesn't have a healing cd. 2. There's swirlies on the ground too? I always looked at the scythe in the air, or tried to. Okay, so Skovald's pretty much a don't mess up ever kinda thing. ...

ad 1) if you mean the mariner aoe, you can eqip your prydaz belovir for the mariner and heal through it by yourself. But use is only if you healer wont be able to sustain you all. You still want to kill mariner before second aoe if possible. ad 2) watch the boss where he faces, it is easier to wher...

I'm 932 equipped with my DPS set, 934 with Prydaz/Belovir. I had issues with Tyrannical Hyrja on a +15 HoV killing me with Arcing Bolt right after Eye of the Storm, is there a way around this? I seem to have to ice block at the end of Eye of the Storm just to survive (I've tried blinking away from m...

That just tracks your Lust buff uptime, I track party sated debuff through elvui. I've been meaning to try out ElvUI but I didn't really want to revamp my whole UI. I'll look into it sometime. Problem with default blizzard one is sometimes the temporal debuff bugs out and I have to click people man...

I'm a 924 ilvl frost mage and I've only done a few 15's on time and completed some 16's. I'm trying to get better at M+ so I have a bunch of questions so I can understand the mentality of higher keys/what I'm missing cause I feel sometimes my DPS is on the lower side. 1. Are the trinkets listed in a...

So ignore Sims, stack crit while staying above 20 haste. Yes I eat crit food, 500 int feasts for mythic otherwise. I don't double IL, I need to practice that in front of a dummy. The reason I have high downtime is because I'm assigned to the absolute back. Ideally if I double IL, I have to be assign...

Logs from my most recent raid: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/TLAvRrzY2pWVaKGh/" target="_blank Profile: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/daggerspine/ve" target="_blankígar Wow progress: https://www.wowprogress.com/character/us/daggerspine/Ve" target="_blankígar So I don't understand ...

So basically all addons that display special messages (i.e. DBM, PS, ExRT, etc) to the default chat window. Is there any way to duplicate these messages to display into another tab/separate chat window? I don't even know what chat channel they're writing to.

I do insane damage with the belt. Ice Time hasn't done much for me and I don't have the ring, so I just use the leg chest for survivability. With the freezing rain trait and belt it's stupid how much I can do with blizzard. I tried testing it out and the damage difference seems so minor that I kind...

Well that's somewhat of a relief, I was going to try to attempt learning double IL too which was why I was asking. I had set the latency to 75, and it felt like I had input lag at times, tried doing it on H Eli, and felt like I was doing badly. My ingame latency is 63/64. If it still works with shim...

For double IL, should SI still be used, or should FT be used for potential 100% IV time? I'd like an answer for both ST and multi target fights if that makes a difference. For me the best way to check which talent build to use is to see the tending talents for frost mages on particular bosses on wa...

For double IL, should SI still be used, or should FT be used for potential 100% IV time? I'd like an answer for both ST and multi target fights if that makes a difference.

I have all legs except Ice Time, I assume the best for mythic+ dungeons is bracers and belt because of the high priority on large trash packs? The only exception I can see is probably EoA where trash packs are a bit lower. I can also see swapping to ring for timewarp at each boss, or gloves for each...

Bracer+ring if able to get double lust or more (with full CDs, second lust for last 15 secs of IV+pot is not what i'm talking about). Replace ring with gloves if 1 lust+CDs. Also gotta play around gloves not to munch, otherwise it might not even be a gain over shard. Not munching as in not having p...

Just tried Gloves + Bracers for the farming run. I think I play better overall with it. The TW ring always annoyed me because I can't really TW before the raid wants to at times and I'd have to wait for someone else to TW which may or may not line up with my CDs. For mythic+/lots of adds, it should ...