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Going to clean this thread up a bit to remove some low quality posts. We don't need another whine thread. Pretty clear fire will need a retuning after this. Yep. But I don't think we've seen all of the nerfs yet, because they still haven't fixed crit value as they mentioned in the interview. We'll p...

Post your funny/epic failures. Dragon's Breath legendary is a lot of fun and very deadly at the same time. 00:01:32.536 Corrupted Wisp 3 gains Dread Thorns from Environment 00:01:34.116 Komma casts Dragon's Breath 00:01:34.116 Komma Dragon's Breath Cenarius *707431* 00:01:34.116 Komma Dragon's Breat...

You can't really run sims for short durations like that. At those time ranges, formulation seems like a better approach to analyze the comparison. Another option is to adjust the value of the two based on Ignite damage. Pyroblast has no AoE value outside of the spreaded Ignite, so you can just remov...

Before patch my stat priority were more or less same with yours even though I had the pants. I don't understand what have changed. In my opinion, priority of mastery should be increased with increased mana costs. This is a common misconception, and reminds us why opinions and feelings often don't a...

Seeing as the original poster clarified he was asking whether LB or UM was better on Ursoc, and that this question has been unambiguously answered (LB isn't used on ST, UM gives a benefit), I see no reason to keep this thread open and get uglier than it already is. Sorry it took this long to deal w...

Orb has never been competitive for single target, but was a very strong option for AOE fights. It was used on progression on several bosses (Imperator, and even world first Archimonde), before Nithramus' synergy with Prismatic Crystal muscled it out. The biggest nerf it received was when all AM proc...

Locked by Causese's request since Arcane Charges reset on pull of raid bosses, similar to all other secondary resources.

Can still be used on dungeon bosses, but not raid bosses.

Why are you commenting on a hotfix discussion thread from a month ago?

Thread locked.

This seems like an oversight from the devs. Arcane Orb's 15 second CD used to coincide with the 15 second duration of the Arcane Charge debuff, which meant it would fall off right as AO finishes the CD. With the change to being a resource, they seem to have forgotten about making Arcane Orb unable t...

Oh, and some napkin math. I'm quite sure they messed up the coefficients here and ended with a net nerf for us. AB/AM contribute to ~60% of overall single target damage, which means the buff is a maximum ~6% gain before considering any mana cost hikes. With the mana cost hike, the mana cost of Arcan...

Seems like there's a whole lot of confusion behind why they're making this mana cost change, so I'm cross posting this from a reply I made on the the MMO-C Arcane thread. With the latest Savant hotfix and current Mastery stacking, it is possible to reach the 65-70% levels of Mastery. This converts t...

Without looking at whatever spreadsheet you're working on, it's hard to comment on what leads to your conclusion of Nether Tempest being a single target DPS loss. That said, I'm pretty sure that isn't the case. Going back to the original topic though, you're trying to compare Supernova against the D...

First off let me say I am a clicker. I know GROSS. But I have been doing it for 12 years and even though I own a razer Naga I just can not get comfortable with the buttons on the side. Plus I feel my issues are ALOT bigger then that. I mean most have told me clicking my drop me 15k off the pace. Bu...