Double-Dipping on Fire Shoulders and Frost Helm?
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:29 pm
Greetings,
While I was surfing other WoW forums I came across a claim that you can, in the right circumstances, cause the new Fire and Frost legendaries to proc two times for each buff:
For the Fire shoulders, you would wait until you receive the 30th cast buff. Then, you use Fire Blast/Phoenix's Flames to get a Hot Streak, and cast a fireball followed immediately by the instant-cast Pyroblast. This is said to work at 20+ yards.
For the Frost helm, you wait until you receive the 15th cast buff while saving up a Brain Freeze. Then, you cast a Frostbolt followed immediately by a buffed Flurry.
Since I don't have the Frost helm I couldn't test that one, but here's the log where I tried using the Fire shoulders, where you can clearly see pairs of Meteors hitting at the exact same time (at 0:49, 1:41, 2:36, 4:24 and 5:17.) In fact, you can see at 5:17-18 where THREE Meteors hit the dummy in the span of two seconds.
(There's also another log here on the PTR during the server maintenance.)
I don't really know how this affects legendary priorities or whether or not it's practical at all for Frost, but since I couldn't find anyone mentioning this anywhere else I thought I'd make a post.
PS: Incidentally, I don't know if the Meteor Burn debuff really stacks, but here's a screenshot of the three Meteors.
EDIT: Here's a log where someone succeeded in pulling off double CMS with one helm buff, although many people on discord (including the person who logged this) said this is generally too problematic and unreliable to use.
While I was surfing other WoW forums I came across a claim that you can, in the right circumstances, cause the new Fire and Frost legendaries to proc two times for each buff:
For the Fire shoulders, you would wait until you receive the 30th cast buff. Then, you use Fire Blast/Phoenix's Flames to get a Hot Streak, and cast a fireball followed immediately by the instant-cast Pyroblast. This is said to work at 20+ yards.
For the Frost helm, you wait until you receive the 15th cast buff while saving up a Brain Freeze. Then, you cast a Frostbolt followed immediately by a buffed Flurry.
Since I don't have the Frost helm I couldn't test that one, but here's the log where I tried using the Fire shoulders, where you can clearly see pairs of Meteors hitting at the exact same time (at 0:49, 1:41, 2:36, 4:24 and 5:17.) In fact, you can see at 5:17-18 where THREE Meteors hit the dummy in the span of two seconds.
(There's also another log here on the PTR during the server maintenance.)
I don't really know how this affects legendary priorities or whether or not it's practical at all for Frost, but since I couldn't find anyone mentioning this anywhere else I thought I'd make a post.
PS: Incidentally, I don't know if the Meteor Burn debuff really stacks, but here's a screenshot of the three Meteors.
EDIT: Here's a log where someone succeeded in pulling off double CMS with one helm buff, although many people on discord (including the person who logged this) said this is generally too problematic and unreliable to use.