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I am unsure how to take this 15% flat buff. I am doing now more damage than I am on live. I think we are on the other end of the spectrum now in terms of tuning. They're going to shoot over and bring it down slightly. Still, it was refreshing to see the spec play well. More damage over what span of...

Unless you have a different set of gear for other fights, you can't just use single target ratings like that.
Even a single other target will put mastery much higher.

Wouldn't Scorch be 250% SP compared to FB 175% noncrit 350% crit?

I'm assuming its 250, since the average of a FB noncrit and crit comes to 262.5, and having guaranteed consistent crits is worth the 12.5% SP loss, without even considering the cast time.

Int giving crit would probably be healthier (or main->secondary) than other secondaries giving crit.

But even then that'd be something that would need a lot of testing to balance.

With Sinew you don't want to Pyro as a precast.

I wouldn't call it "pulling ahead" when it only makes a 0.1% difference between 3x Pyro +3 and 3x Fcast +3. 3x Ignite is only 0.2%, and 3x crit is only 0.5%, not even a percent difference. While for cutting edge content that is definitely something to min/max, a fraction of a percent for swapping al...

Yeah, considering the reasoning for pyro over ignite was to let ignite spread and tick for its full duration, and flamestrike was better for burst aoe, an undying pack all living for a full 300 seconds is giving way too much benefit towards pyro. Not to mention there isn't a single trash pack that l...

Easier now? Back then arcane was way more constrained, maybe. But those constraints made a really easy system of rules to follow.

Now it might not exactly be hard, but at least you have to worry about using *all* your mana, instead of just the top half.

But this supernova tallent, i dont care much about. With the charge up tallent u get a really good opener + once every conseravti phase u can clear ur stacks with barrage witch have alot higher chance to prom AM right? then u can charge up, reaply NT and use ur AM proc then barrage again. Besides t...

The issue is that Scorch does very little damage. So while you're "wasting" the crit bonus by casting PF, you get a lot more benefit from rune and the mastery conversion.

No travel time doesn't matter either, since the cast time is effectively a travel time.

The last one. According to sims, the only reason you wouldn't hardcast is if you're losing or delaying hot streak pyros.

At first glance it looks like the difference is cinderstorm. They got a lot more cinderstorm damage than you did, and as such had ignite benefit from the cinders. There is a technical benefit of having cinderstorm over kindling, but you have to consistently land all the cinders and cast it often to ...

Would casting fireballs before burst be worth it? You're pre-stacking sinew, but you're losing burst time on pots.

So i got 3 traits left to get before aftershocks and the only dps traits left are blast furnace, reignition overdrive and blue flame special. I have read that the extra flamestrike from the golden trait is only 25% of normal damage. With that in mind would it make sense to get the blue flame specia...

Spell Power was removed from weapons and Int was increased to balance it. Trinkets can still give spellpower. I don't think it's going to be as easy as multiplying the stat weight by 1.2, since stat weights involve how your current level of each stat interacts. It still might be worse than the other...

This is covered in the stickied guide by Frosted I believe. You definitely take pyro.

From the sticky you definitely take crit damage. Crit, ignite, and fb cast are better at any ilevel increase. Fb/FB damage are better at 10. Flamestrike, molten, and blink are better at 15.

Cinderstorm really isn't great? It seems like the rest of your comment is about why it lines up better.

I have a +36 ignite and i just got mythic warforged +42 blink, is it worth replacing with the blink? Crit Damage - Better at any item level increase Fireball Cast Time - Better at any item level increase Ignite Damage - Better at any item level increase Fire Blast Damage - Better at A 10 item level...

Simulationcraft has a stable build you can download, and it also has nightly builds, which are more work-in-progress but also more up to date.

i've read the guide and other guides and it's not clear for me about cinderstorm usage. wheres the place for cinderstorm in fire's priorities? and if possible can you describe how it's used with combustion and rune of power. According to sims you basically use it on cooldown. It has less of a prior...