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Could it be the origin array boosting their crit up. Its hard for crit not to be your best stat as a fire mage with the built in boost it gets so its likely origin is boosting their crit up hugely in uldir. This is a major part. with 10 stacks you basically get 10% more crit, making it easy to get ...

A few very quick tips (i used heroic taloc to get an idea): Talents: Do not use Mirror Image, it is our worst talent. For new players I always advice Incanter's Flow as it means you have less to manage and it still does great damage. Once you can do the spec in your sleep and know the fights good en...

The general wisdom is to keep the rotation the same, just to replace fireball with scorch below 30% and keep in mind the auto crits.

So yes, it is still good to just use the hard cast. Especially if you also have a heating up you can make a hot streak with a fire blast during the cast.

My experience is very similar to yours, currently just on 357 ilvl I have around 35-36% crit with origination array and since I hit around 30% crit has been my highest or second highest stat when simming for ST. This suggests to me a certain level of crit stacking is still worth it. Just wondering i...

Hello there little fire mage community. I just want to make this post to try and get some information on two often heard claims. The last reddit dps weekly thread kind of triggered it for me, and I simply want to try and get some facts out on the table. Two claims keep being repeated like they are u...

Yes indeed, the searing touch rotation becomes less about fishing because you know the scorch will crit. You can actually hit your pyro button the moment the scorch cast finishes and you have heating up. For me it is basically this: START casting scorch IF Heating up (after pyro lands): Finish Scorc...

Yeah I think it is a tough one. I understand the losing value of crit.. but there was a moment when I focused on crit when gearing and got like 40% at 330 ilvl as well as the crit weapon enchant and a trinket that boosted crit and the spec felt a lot more smooth and damage was out performing my simm...

I personally use the one posted as the top voted comment on the item on wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/item=132406/marquee-bindings-of-the-sun-king#comments It basically adds 2 wings around your character when it procs and you can set it up for 1 of the wings to fall off a certain number of seconds...

Good to at least be back to that, takes the sting out of that bugfix.

Did any blue respond yet to the issues? Or is it being silenced? What issues? Bug has been fixed, no issues with fire mage being even worse now. Well of course, it was a bug fix and may be better for the health of the spec long term but.. It was a very clear across the board nerf when this bug was ...

Did any blue respond yet to the issues? Or is it being silenced?

I remember a while back there was a bug concerning ignite and hot streak causing the hard casted pyroblast to also get the ignite bonus damage from hot streak. Maybe this was fixed in 7.3.5?

This was what I found about it on wow forum: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20759371982

Pro tip: throw fire at mobs and watch them die

So much what the poster above said. Just because it sims better does not make it the better choice. The sims assume perfect usage of the procs and that is usually not the case in real situations. They do not. The sims munches procs as well, and the result you see is the average over many many itera...

So much what the poster above said. Just because it sims better does not make it the better choice. The sims assume perfect usage of the procs and that is usually not the case in real situations.

Are the http://www.wowhead.com/spell=238055 relics any good? up My guess is that they will be pretty good with the new 4pc + kindling+pyrotex gloves? As someone pointed out to me: They are equal in ST to the other good ones (pyro and ignite dmg ones) but are a lot better than those in multi-target ...

Just tested on PTR. Set bonus lasted the full 18 seconds on my toon. (4 traits, 2 relics and 2p) So, how much does this increase the value of the combustion trait? I know my current prio is still: pyro dmg, ignite dmg, fireblast dmg, combustion time, but will the increase of the dmg boost also bump...

Also note that it is now for the entire duration of Combustion instead of a fixed time. So it means the Combustion extension trait gets a bit better with it. Was this confirmed by devs? Right now on live under the loot guide it still says increase 10% critical damage for 14 secs. Unsure if it has b...

Also note that it is now for the entire duration of Combustion instead of a fixed time. So it means the Combustion extension trait gets a bit better with it.

When gearing up and just needing advice on what stats to focus on, just use raidbots (www.raidbots.com) and the stat weight calculation. It comes as close as needs be for your situation.