Can someone explain why it is better to chain Disintegrate at the “Pandemic” area (roughly 10-30% left of the channel) instead of just letting it finish and casting it again?
Also, if I am running Titanic Wrath talent do I chain Disintegrate if the next Disintegrate is not empowered by Titanic Wrath?
3rd tick no matter what. There’s addons/weakauras that tell you.
A disintegrate buffed by titanic wrath will buff the next one if chained, iirc. The reverse is also true, which has been impossible to encounter until this tier set.
You always want to chain a buffed disintegrate onto a non-buffed disintegrate, but you NEVER want to chain a non-buffed disintegrate into a buffed disintegrate.
IDK if this info is outdated or not, it’s what i remember from the beta, and it has not been relevant since then.
The reason to chain disintegrates is simply to reduce downtime channeling without losing damage. By chaining into another disintegrate after the third tick, the 4th tick that you skipped will be immediately dealt with the initial tick of the new disintegrate. This allows you to cut off .6 seconds of channeling without losing anything.
It doesn’t work like this. By chaining a wrathed disintegrate into a non wrathed one, only the initial tick from the previous disintegrate that is being pandemiced on will retain the damage buff. I don’t have 4pc to test the reverse, but it stands to reason that it will be the initial tick does not benefit from titanic wrath since it was pandemiced, but the full disintegrate chained into will properly benefit.
You can see this in action here. Damage is going down slightly from mastery because I’m not in dragonrage, but the last tick that gets chained into the new disintegrate does 29783 and the new disintegrate starts at 25883.
How are you able to see the logs like that? Is that an addon or in game function?
That’s functionality within the base in game combat log.