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- Fri May 29, 2015 5:14 am
- Forum: Fire
- Topic: Fire & Prismatic crystal
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18975
Re: Fire & Prismatic crystal
I actually wonder a bit about this, because the current theories in terms of how to play PC-Fire all discuss the ideal situation on what to do (PC -> Build ignite -> double IB), but not a lot of discussion on what "Plan B" is when it fails, ie. PC -> Fireball+Pyro both don't crit, IB still not yet ...
- Mon May 25, 2015 11:06 pm
- Forum: Fire
- Topic: 2P T17 Nerf?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18119
Re: 2P T17 Nerf?
The mechanic is genius, and alot of fun to play. Its a different way of playing fire. It's a pretty simple mechanic to use in my opinion, and only adds to DPS variance. Not sure why people like it and I personally would rather not have the tier set in the game to increase the value of crit so the s...
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:32 am
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: Rune of power tips and tricks...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15583
Re: Rune of power tips and tricks...
Hard to really give tips that work for every single scenario since RoP placement is very situational but generally you want to be on the edge of your RoP so you can use the space in RoP more efficiently when ground effects are targeted on you. Where you stand in the RoP depends a lot on the fight an...
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 12:26 am
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: Arcane opener with Crucible
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11584
Re: Arcane opener with Crucible
Using 2 SN right away with using berserking before crystal to get incanter's flow at 4-5 stacks instead of 2-3 with max stacks of crucible just doesn't seem worth it. 4-5 stacks is just over 7% increased SP using the SN, but you lose the higher stack of the trinket, potentially fitting one less spel...
- Wed Apr 01, 2015 1:51 am
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: Arcane opener with Crucible
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11584
Re: Arcane opener with Crucible
His two supernovas were at 7 and 9 stacks for the first one, which isn't efficiently using the trinket's proc, and from what I can see he is minimally capping mana in his openers (especially on the third one from what I can see) which can affect burst damage and/or consistency depending on procs. De...
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:19 pm
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: Arcane opener with Crucible
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11584
Re: Arcane opener with Crucible
Doing this is wasting mana being capped, higher chance at overwriting a proc, and wouldn't be using the proc at it's max stacks. If you trinkets proc off your first AB, which they usually do, you only need to cast 3 AB and PC which for me with lust and haste trinket is just barely over 5 seconds and...
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:04 am
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: Mythic Iron Maidens talent choice(s)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12952
Re: Mythic Iron Maidens talent choice(s)
Definitely AO/ NT. During progression I always did boats and there is no choice other than AO for that tier since the mob on the boat would be kited out of the PC and on the "ground" there is no reason to take PC because of the cleave. Overpowered could potentially be better than AO for boat damage ...
- Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:47 pm
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: Precast ABarrage instead of AB?
- Replies: 152
- Views: 127150
Re: Precast ABarrage instead of AB?
Why would you want your trinkets to proc earlier? If anything you want it to proc delayed so you have more guaranteed time with the procs during PC or just simply at 4 stacks. ABarr also does so little damage I don't see why you want to get an extra one off at the cost of losing a global at the star...
- Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:40 pm
- Forum: Fire
- Topic: Another Combustion Trick? 2T17+PC
- Replies: 153
- Views: 146031
Re: Another Combustion Trick? 2T17+PC
I made a simple test on dummies at my Garrison. Fireball at dummy 1 only to get some ignite. Fire Blast Fire Blast. Then i switch target to dummy 2. The ignite on dummy 2 is not bigger than the ignite on Dummy 1. In other words, i dont think that the ignite spread by Fire Blast stacks. Am i wrong? ...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:23 pm
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: [TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9646
Re: [TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
link program? working with a black-box is kind of difficult. It was just a program I made in java late at night with just the intention of calculating those probabilities, it isn't by any means user friendly or coded to accommodate extraneous input data or anything. If you have an IDE for Java I ca...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:20 pm
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: [TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9646
Re: [TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
I just did to see how quickly the chance to cap on procs ramped up to compare if its worth to drop stacks with more than one missile proc with a different amount of spells casted in between. I wonder if it's worth looking into then? Either that, or adopting a more defensive AM use strategy when you...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:17 pm
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: [TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9646
Re: [TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
Why would you munch? You would just AM at 3 stacks during your conserve 4AC build and have a higher mana % going into your 4AC AM / AB weaving, or for when you are going into your non-opener burn. Munching is never fully avoidable, because you can't react in time to using a new 3 stack before initi...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:45 pm
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: [TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9646
Re: [TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
Although the title is about how likely munching is, its more about how likely you will have to use a missile proc early. I just did to see how quickly the chance to cap on procs ramped up to compare if its worth to drop stacks with more than one missile proc with a different amount of spells casted ...
- Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:07 pm
- Forum: Fire
- Topic: Living Bomb and 2/3 target or AoE
- Replies: 28
- Views: 25605
Re: Living Bomb and 2/3 target or AoE
Yeah I know, just wasn't sure if it considered the base duration to be less than 12 when it is spread to a target with less than 12 seconds on the dot. Thanks for clarifying.It's based off the base duration of the DoT, so it's always 3.6s for LB.
- Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:05 pm
- Forum: Fire
- Topic: Living Bomb and 2/3 target or AoE
- Replies: 28
- Views: 25605
Re: Living Bomb and 2/3 target or AoE
Something that I've been doing is trying to increase the amount of LB explosions I can have by spreading a LB, then reapplying LB on my target. When the original spread LB has exploded, I spread the LB on my target back to the adds. This means I have an explosion every ~8-10 seconds. I assume that ...
- Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:02 pm
- Forum: Fire
- Topic: Living Bomb and 2/3 target or AoE
- Replies: 28
- Views: 25605
Re: Living Bomb and 2/3 target or AoE
LB -> IB spread -> Switch to a different add with LB on it and IB spread again (requires 2pc) Wouldn't this just overwrite the existing Living Bombs - with a duration the same as before? Nope. The living bombs benefit (weird word to use since its not a benefit) from pandemic. What I think the OP is...
- Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:16 am
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: [TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9646
[TC] How likely is munching procs after dropping stacks?
So from reading some questions people had about if they can drop arcane charges with missile procs through evo with the goal of shortening the burn phase and using the missile proc at high mana instead of low mana, I decided to write a program to calculate the probability of munching a missile proc ...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:00 pm
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: Arcane mage 4p set bonus
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5577
Re: Arcane mage 4p set bonus
Yeah I don't understand that also, the only time I have ever overwritten a proc is when I get one in my opener and I get no missile procs and the 4pc has procced again before I got an AM proc, but even then I would be at 4 stacks the whole time.
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 1:02 am
- Forum: Fire
- Topic: Fire mage guide for 6.2 by Dutchmagoz!
- Replies: 227
- Views: 258552
Re: Fire mage guide for raiding by Dutchmagoz! [updated for
I noticed that the pandemic effect doesn't work on living bomb when its refresh from a bomb spread by inferno blast. The pandemic effect works - in fact, that's why it doesn't explode. The "not exploding if refreshed through spreading" part is something that has been around since beta, and I haven'...
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:35 am
- Forum: Arcane
- Topic: Arcane Orb should have 2 charges
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6672
Re: Arcane Orb should have 2 charges
It would probably be quite a big bonus because arcane orb is not a spell you can use directly on CD and having 2 charges will increase the number of times you can use AO by quite a bit. Although it is quite an unbalanced idea to add this in with no loss, but if the cooldown were to be increased with...