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IGiven the necklace is almost a must have for survival in the new challenge scenario for self-healing. (...) One thing I really hate in fire is how our ST / AoE so talent dependant while some/other classes can just face roll (Hello hunters!). It feels like I have to really choose either ST or AoE o...

Data is from today, warcraftlogs.com, patch 7.2 only. I can't praise Kihra's work there enough. What you're seeing here is data for Mythic only, ilvl 908-910, sorted by p90. This is done under the assumption that we're interested in a comparison between people who know what they're doing and have de...

It allows you to double ice lance during IV and even without it if you have a decently rolled Metronome and high base haste.

You can also go full YOLO and run a Ray build, which is a lot of fun, but very, very difficult to play well.

I'd still argue strongly in favour of changing the HP bars altogether. It takes about 10 seconds since you can use the functionality for warriors to have their execute phase displayed. You get free crits by casting Scorc on minions below 30%, which can be a valuable source of HU/HS when you're out o...

Is there a sweet spot where you could both shatter FB/Eb and double IL? I'm now moving to melee for BL duration, because DIL was incosistent for me without it. And I feel I also miss on the FB/EB shatters. @Beave At first I also was thinking on checking raw casting speed, but that way you don't see...

Retracted.

You can create a gear set that includes it and use that as a trigger.

I was running fire in m+ until 7.2 and currently I am running frost. I always push high keys, im #2 US and #1 World mage(trust me im not good though). I generally do about 850k total dmg as frost. My spec is LW/IF/SI/AG/TW. Rotation would be make sure you use CD's on trash as well. I would make sur...

I understand how this works, but I don't agree with it still being in the game. It should have been patched out already. Setting lag tolerance to cause something that's not intended is an exploit. That's not even necessary. Using the mousewheel to spam casts is sufficient. It's a nice high-end mech...

Hey guys, With the opening of the Broken Shore we can now farm Nethershards to acquire slot-specific tokens at 5000 shards a piece. With a few people that's about an hour of farming, sometimes less. It's also a very special situation in terms of DPS output. I'm currently trying to maximize my output...

Adjust the coloring of the enemy hp plates/bars to switch from red to green below 30% - a lot easier to track, especially in AOE situations. Many common addons that can change the bars' visibility support that feature, I think I did it in ElvUI.

I love this wa so much but it's causing massive fps loss since 7.2 when I pop icy veins.. any chance of a fix? So that's where that is coming from, I'll have to disable it then. :cry: Thanks for pointing it out. I love the WA as well, but my screen freezes for longer than is acceptable during the o...

Same problem, no solution yet.

Yes but it's a bit fickle. You won't have on demand burst aoe like fire or arcane. Blizzard becomes part of your single target rotation (cast blizz @ 5 stacks from the belt).But by no means should you delay the cast of blizzard just to wait for 5 stacks of the buff ie spellblade adds (you're able t...

I think 2% is a solid value for a trait. not too much, not too little

Agreed. There might be some added value if you have a DK tank, has anyone tried if that works?

since the topic of CiS with belt is in here I'd like to ask: any thoughts on flame patch and how this is affected by the scorch rotation? with belt you have guaranteed flamestrikes from your hot streaks and it allows you to quickly and easily chain them without always relying on your FB and PF to p...

As long as you're trying to think in terms of Skada DPS rankings you need to pick a fixed point from which to draw your conclusions. That's problematic even if you know the shape of the underlying distributions (which we don't) and greatly influences the results of your ranking. If I had to give a r...

Any thoughts on playing GS until they fix this? It really screws with your IV uptime.

But the rotation of GS and TV are nothing alike. I'd say if you're going to play TV in the future, play TV now. No point in learning a different rotation I heavily disagree. The cooldown usage of GS is fairly different from TV (based on what I've read), but GS essentially plays out as a much less p...

Other than what has already been said: use a GCD timer bar and a metronome. GCD metronome adds a "click" sound to the GCD, making it easier to adjust to high haste rhythms without having to pay attention to yet another visual cue. On that topic: weakauras with audio cues beat every other form of rem...