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My rant about fire mages
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Post by
greywolfsage
Crappy gear is crappy.
Early Raid tier is going to have lackluster stats.
And might as well start burning offerings to Lady Luck, otherwise, your screwed.
Post by
kikc
You mustn't be praying to the God of RNG enough.
Fire has been like this for a while, your dps is only as good as your luck is!
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Frox
In my opinion, the only problem I have with fire is that hotstreak is a key component for an optimal Combustion. Other mage specs have that on-demand-burst. But Combustion really is that special spell that requires you look in the newspaper under your Astrological sign and hope is says "Lucky color is Fire, Plenty of Hot streaks today!" in order to get that Pyro dot and hopefully a crit.
When I run a group w/o the 5% crit buff, its really obvious when the hotsreaks completely dry up. I don't know if you guys have ever been in a boss fight and haven't had a chance to use your combustion, its really irritating!
Post by
Amry
hot streak needs to proc more!
But since Pyroblast! hits like a truck, if this happens we'll be QQed by the lesser classes. Mobs with pitchforks and torches will demand that we be nerfed.
Is that what you want?
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Post by
nickseng
Here's a tip for Combustion: Don't rely on Hot Streak before blowing it. At minimum, all it requires is Living Bomb, and a nice juicy crit from a Fireball.
Post by
storyr
At higher gear levels hot streak is the least of fire mages problems. Ignite is the most broken mechanic in the entire game and it's not gear dependent.
Post by
tuckmuck203
At higher gear levels hot streak is the least of fire mages problems. Ignite is the most broken mechanic in the entire game and it's not gear dependent.
Instead of casting fireballs when hotstreak procs try casting scorch instead to avoid ignite munching.
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storyr
Uhh what? When hotstreak procs I cast Pyroblast!. It doesn't matter if you're spamming scorch or fireball, it's mostly LB crit tics that cause the horrible broken mechanic.
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Post by
Ethix
So, I really feel like this whole "fire is so RNG" argument is an excuse for mages who cannot consistently focus and do good dps in raids or long heroic bosses. Obviously if the encounter is less than a minute or two, RNG will affect your dps. Raid encounters tend to last 5-10 minutes, so the luck of hot streaks tend to smooth.
There have been the couple times since I started raiding on my mage in Cata where I will get my average 45% crit, but only proc a few hot streaks because they're never back to back. It can happen, but 95% of the time I get Pyroblast! to account for 10-20% of my dmg depending if I aoe.
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storyr
I actually agree with Ethix here, to an extent. It's not to say those whining are terrible, but it's just another thing to cry about. As I said earlier, more than HS procs it's ignite munching that pisses me off, LB goes up, HS procs, pyro crits you hit combustion less than 1 second after LB crits and you get a 1500 ignite tic instead of 10k. It's stupid.
Hang in there though guys, I promise you with 4pc t11 you're dps will increase A BUNCH.
Post by
greywolfsage
Hang in there though guys, I promise you with 4pc t11 you're dps will increase A BUNCH.
The trick is getting there. I've currently lost interest because I can't get through the heroics to get into raiding...
There's only so much crippling derping that one can take before you stop hitting the LFD.
And I don't find the right friends on at the time I need them, lol.
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