Hotstreak fishing is part of the class and part of the fun, but at the start of an expansion when stats will be so low, the only gameplay element of the spec we have will be quite few and far between.
The nice thing about frost is you have Brain freeze - flurry procs, which you react to similar to reacting to hot streak by adding two spells other than your filler for reactive gameplay, and the nice thing about glacial spike is you’re constantly working up towards a big hit in your rotation. Thus the gameplay stays engaging because it has some rng with the BF-flury proc, but the goal of a hard hitter.
Frost took the original Vanilla fire fantasy - the HUGE hit coming from pyro blast or POM+Pyro, which is kinda sad, but Pyroclasm seems like a good way to incorporate it back.
Instead of % chance on hotstreak consumption, what if every so many Fireballs, or every so many Fire blasts we predictably gain the buff to hardcast a huge hard hitting greater pyroblast the way we can hard cast a glacial spike?
If we gain a new button from the talent choice, like greater pyroblast or “Pyroclasm”, perhaps we can use the Hotstreak buff to guarantee its Crit similar to how we use brainfreeze-flurry to “guarantee” a Glacial spike Crit.
The benefits to this idea are:
- Gives fire back its hard hitting fantasy
- Adds more rotation depth to the class without adding more RNG
- Is still in the spirit of what pyroclasm is currently going for.
Perhaps the spell could look something like this:
Pyroclasm
4 sec cast - 40 yrd range
Conjure a massive ball of fire to blast your target for (240% of Pyroblast damage) and can consume Hotstreak to add an additional 50% critical strike chance.
Requires:
having cast 10 direct damage fire spells?
5 Fireball casts?
***Fire doesn’t gain icicles as a counter the way frost does so this talent would have to add a stacking buff that at a certain number you could cast it.
Idk sound more engaging than the current stay of pyroclasm where I have no idea when the big hitter will show up which loses some engagement for me.
Edit:
***Imagine if the visual counter for this Pryoclasm rework was Flaming orbs like Kael’thas WC3/HOTS. Like how we count icicles for Glacial spike, Flame orbs could be a counter for when you can cast Pyroclasm. Maybe then every 3 pyroblast crits or every 3 fireball crits we gain access to Pyroclasm.