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Flame on gives you more crits and pyros than phoenix flames. Not the other way around

For the love of god, please let a crit build be meta again. Not critting is the most boring fire has ever felt for me. It's only fun for 10 seconds every 2 minutes

That might just be an adjustment to compensate for us getting more secondaries with higher gear ilvl

When I said it was strongest and most fun when it is all about building hot streaks, I meant that playstyle becomes exceedingly more fun and stronger when it has things that support it. I didn't mean strongest for the spec, but I understand that I didn't make that clear enough at first. i i see... ...

I had a feeling this would just turn into you expressing your dislike for passive talents and wanting them to be more "casual" and less "optimal". Also, you talk about loving the hot streak playstyle but you don't seem to understand that that playstyle is strongest and most fun when its all about b...

I think your opinion and your arguments lack alot in matter of experience in this expansion and "skill", as you like to call it yourself. Calling IF a low-skill pick is just stupid. At this moment there is very little reasons to take RoP, even if you play it perfectly the reward is so small, that i...

I had a feeling this would just turn into you expressing your dislike for passive talents and wanting them to be more "casual" and less "optimal". Also, you talk about loving the hot streak playstyle but you don't seem to understand that that playstyle is strongest and most fun when its all about bu...

Are pyroclasm procs still worth casting in combustion? I know bracer procs are but pyroclasm procs are 225% damage as opposed to 300% damage. Also, is searing touch worth taking if you have high crit (70%)? It looks really good for early bfa raids, but I feel like searing touch at 150% damage inste...

Are pyroclasm procs still worth casting in combustion? I know bracer procs are but pyroclasm procs are 225% damage as opposed to 300% damage. Also, is searing touch worth taking if you have high crit (70%)? It looks really good for early bfa raids, but I feel like searing touch at 150% damage instea...

Perhaps just with my guild's DPS (we have a DH/monk and affli lock permanently on the third add) the third add is nearly always dead by the time my spare meteor is off CD, or if it is alive, I only get the impact and it dies before the ground dot ticks. By the third round of adds is maybe when I ge...

z0nkey you are running 90+ logs with just 34% crit?
dafuq?

They have closer to 50-55% crit. Not 34%, that's displaying the crit before any fire mage passives increasing it. My crit is 34% on wc logs too but in reality, I'm at 50 or so

Sheath is actually decent after the buffs to most of the raid trinkets. You can tell it's not updated because the hotfix was December 5th i believe and last updated is November 25th. Sheath isn't optimal but it's at least decent atm

T21 4pc is a 10% damage increase that is only in combustion whereas T20 is a 10% increase whenever you launch a pyro. Blizz messed up with those damage increases being the same.
TLDR T21 has a smaller uptime on the 10% buff so T20 is better for now

I'm not sure why everyone keeps saying crit is the way to go with the bracer/glove combo. We are going to have such a high up time on combust that I would think crit is very devalued, whereas haste would be very beneficial. Crit wont be as devalued as it is now though. It'll be like 50ish percent t...

It's probably coming from the thought of us running gloves/bracers with kindling in Antorus, which is a build that heavily favors crit/haste. We're probably also not going to be running firestarter, which means 2 of our biggest source of automatic crit will be gone. Why do you think we will not be ...

I know its still a bit early on the PTR but blizzard showed during Legion that they dont change/improve much when it comes to Arcane Mages. I have been testing tier21 with all legendary combinations as well with all possible spell rotation options and talents. Tier 21 as it is now does less dps for...

Ask Mr Robot sims all combinations of all gear in my bags and my bank and void storage. I can get up to 66% unbuffed crit if I stack my highest crit gear. That only drops slightly (63%ish) when I add the two non-crit T20 items needed to get the 4 piece set bonus. Even with this massive amount of cr...

Have you tried switching to crit gear? T20 likes and needs crit to work a hell of a lot more than T19 does. My T20 at slightly higher ilvl out did my T19 gear once i put crit gear on. Ask Mr Robot sims all combinations of all gear in my bags and my bank and void storage. I can get up to 66% unbuffe...

yes i see the same...the set bonus of T19 is valued really high because of the crit it gives ..it makes the sim dont care about crit by just telling you to equip the 2 set and then you focus on other stats Have you tried switching to crit gear? T20 likes and needs crit to work a hell of a lot more ...

Ps. Cast only 2 ticks of evo then inteurpt it. It is overall major dps gain.

Is that only with the kilt or just in general for arcane?