[11.1] Fire mage feedback, lingering issues and odd design limitations

[Zommoros-azshara]

@Linxy

Fire

• Frostfire
  • Excess Frost now reduces the cooldown of Meteor by 5 seconds when consumed (was 3 seconds).
  • Isothermic Core now causes Comet Storm at 250% effectiveness (was 200%).
  • Flash Freezeburn can no longer trigger from Combustions granted from Sun King’s Blessing or Time Anomaly.
    • Developers’ notes: Flash Freezeburn combined with Sun King’s Blessing was a large contributor to the resource and proc overflow Fire Mages can experience while using this Hero Talent tree. To remain consistent, we’ve also adjusted the effect for Frost Mages as well.

While this is a most welcome change in order to regulate the Excess Buff overcap issue, it sadly also resulted in another major (~5%) nerf to all builds using Sun King’s Blessing.

Please consider buffing the Pyroblast effect modifier in Sun King’s Blessing, as this would not disrupt the flow of the rotation but would provide a much needed “oompf” that a hardcast being built by 10 hotstreaks is just critically lacking right now.

As proof of concept all I can do is provide a simulation which shows that buffing the Pyroblast component of Sun King’s Blessing to +500% (currently sitting at +260%) would result in a ~5.5% buff to Sun King builds:
https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/dgr2xzf5i42Y1pqRC7jjF8