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Do you have any suggestions for Hymdall in HoV? I generally have issues sustaining good DPS on this boss due to the amount of movement there (and getting targetted by a blade in my opener. . .) ><

Moderator edit: moved to Q&A and conjured up an appropriate title. Hello, I'm wondering whether anyone's done any conclusive testing for Fire trinkets on the PTR. I think that Sandman's Pouch will continue to be worthwhile (didn't suffer from the general trinket reduction). The other trinket that I...

Recently a lot of mages are going all mastery as arcane and keeping their haste around 1600-1800. It is better to go for all mastery now instead of getting that 2100 haste cap? There's no haste cap at 2100; gear to whatever haste levels you get from your personal stat weights. Those mages use maste...

Was a wipe unfortunately.

Sorry for the rather late response, but as this is the highest combustion tick so far in the thread I'd love to see the log if it's still available!

My apologies if this was discussed earlier in the thread, but under what conditions can you completely stop DPS in order to prevent Sandman's from activating? On fights where Nithramus is used 3 to 4 times, especially, the ICD gets completely desynchronized with the ring. Is it always the best choic...

Hi,
How many targets are needed for Tharbek's Lucky Pebble (or any of the mythic dungeon mastery on-use trinkets) to outperform Desecrated Shadowmoon Insignia? (this is assuming sustained cleave on these targets)

Its viable in the sense that you'll still do decent damage that's better than some other specs. But it really needs very good gear and fast kill times to do well. It all depends in what context you are playing though - you can clear 13/13M playing Fire the whole way, but Arcane and/or Frost are gen...

On another note, how good would the 720 (upgraded to 730) version of Bonemaw's Big Toe be compared to Sandman's or GSR? imo bad Bonemaw(upgraded to 730) 2 min cd on use. 2687 crit Sandman(stage 6) 115 sec cd 15% chance to trigger 3080 crit AND 385 Int Not saying that the on use trinket is better th...

Also simcraft has fire mages top 5 single target =O That list looks horrifically inaccurate, haha. In any case, Fire is a top ST spec, and has been for a while now. Uhhh what? Fire has been universally panned in HFC until recently, please elaborate It depends on what you mean by recently. In my pos...

Also simcraft has fire mages top 5 single target =O

That list looks horrifically inaccurate, haha. In any case, Fire is a top ST spec, and has been for a while now.

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This seems quite strong, and works in raids. The strength version has a very high uptime without killing blows, so I don't doubt this does as well (in the realm of 40-50%, I believe).

Hi, my apologies if this was covered earlier, but is Doom Nova affected by the +20% spell damage from Arcane Power? More generally, do all +spell damage increases affect Doom Nova?