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You can do veins before flurry but it has a chance to fail ebonbolt shatter so it's up to you. If you are confident - do it. After I noticed that several times my ebonbolt didn't crit and switched to a 100% version.

A lot of people ask the same questions to get the same answers. This topic is meant to teach how to analyze your logs by yourself on a general basis. There are several common mistakes people do: 1. Opener. 2. Munching/overlapping procs. 3. Rotation. 4. Poor encounter experience/knowledge. 5. Radical...

1 BF wasn't used (14 BF procs, 13 Flurry casts). What was that Blizzard doing at single target fight? 43 possbile lance shatter and 47 lance casts > 89% crit and some didn't shatter. Empty lances dramatically reduce your dps. On some bosses you can't use your ring at all. For example, why don't you ...

Glacial spike is a controversial talent atm. I wouldn't recommend to play GS especially if you have low mastery numbers Next. You never shatter ebonbolt which must have 100% crit hits. Ebonbolt > Flurry all the time. Even though you don't play around chain reaction but your uptime is a bit low (some...

1. What's the difference between reducing orb's cd before you cast it or after? You still get those 5 secs. Delaying ebonbolt is controversial though. About 2p set bonus you should also remember that if you cast ebonbolt>flurry>lance you don't munch anything. If you do orb>ebonbolt>flurry>lance you ...

You really want people to analyze your logs with KJ 1:20 long wipe fight? Let's look at Goroth. You have 46 HS procs with 50 Pyro casts, which means only 4 you were hard casting but you had 6 bracers procs - you lost 2. Fight length 2:52, you could cast Meteor 3 (or even 4) times but did just 2. You...

Do not munch BF procs (22 Flurry casts against 24 procs). Also being able to cast min 49 lances, you did just 38 and managed to cast some empty ones (without FoF and/or Winter's Chill via BF'd Flurry). Ebonbolt's crit is at 33% but must be 100% which means you ignore Flurry immediately after it. Wha...

25-26% should be enough to start working towards vers.

Fire already suffered from a huge nerf from 50% to 12% lol. 75% more damage fore lance is a OP thing. I bet it will be nerfed too.

Goroth, DI (hc), Sisters, Maiden, Avatar - Unstable Magic. Mistress, Harj, KJ, Host - Arctic Gale. Do you have any other legendary to change hands? With opener you do your ebonbolt have a chance to not crit due to GCD and positioning. It's better to do ebonbolt > flurry > IV > Lance... Sometimes (Go...

Actually it does. Mage stat weight looks like this:
1. Crit till 33%
2. Haste till approx. 26%.
3. Vers is near the haste at 26% and has more weight after it.
4. Mastery.
5. Crit after 33%.

2nd opener is mostly for those who run GS and/or Sfos.

Well... seems like legendaries set will stay the same which means we can do 2t20 + 4t21 easily. See no problem with that at all. Especially if Blizzard keeps new bonus.

Because with 33% you have guaranteed crit with every shatter.

We had a similar cleave issue on Mistress. Turned out Boomie and Ret were whoring...

I saw a lot of guilds stopping their dps at some time point to avoid shitty situations.

It's hard to find out what answers you want because seems like you already gave it by yourself. If you cleave maiden too fast, so she died before relevant avatar hp then there are 2 options: a) switch to frost which doesn't have any substential and uncontrolled cleave; b) stop your dps...

Head is nice when you don't have bracers/shard. When you do have it - keep sfos in your bank. That's all.

PS. Host fight. Sfos does <2% damage.

+500 int if anybody can make it in your raid. Or haste.

You can always try Glacial Spike build while you farm haste gear, those big glacier spikes can hit pretty hard

Spike build is trash after rework, it's playable in normal/heroic though (as everything else because... who cares lol).

First of all, it would be better to include some logs. Second, I viewed our several pulls and didn't see more than 21 stacks of umbra suffusion and more than 3.7m twilight glaive shot. Seems like either positioning of entire raid is wrong or your own or you're "lucky" to be constantly targeted by th...