Few minutes into an arena game a fire mage literally 1 shot me from full hp with 1 cast pyro for 30.8k dmg and a follow up instant pyro hitting at the same exact time for 9k crit, out of a dragon’s breath… My death log reads “-1.5 seconds Fire Blast -2.6k” “-0.0s Pyroblast -30.8k” next line “0.0s Pyroblast -125 (8.9k overkill)”. So 40k damage.
How the hell does this happen? Was vs Resto Druid Fire Mage 2s (so no outside buffs either), they literally just played pansy all game spamming CC and kiting till he could get 1 cast off to randomly 1 shot me. Why do 1 shots exist??
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It isn’t possible because stats aren’t that high. You either got hit by multiple or you got hit by a hardcast pyroclasm empowered one. 30k still seems high for that.
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Wasn’t an insta cast, it’s combined with a talent called pyroclasm
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yup you got RNG’d by a bad talent that no one (well I guess one person) takes.
It requires a proc from consuming a hotstreak then a hardcasted pyroblast.
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So…it is possible…
And by the way, OP, it’s possible. He hard casted a Pyroblast with Pyroclasm and Combust up.
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Not saying it isnt a little dumb, but there is a reason no decent mage takes that talent. It RNG dependant, janky, and requires the other team to let you get a 4.5 second cast off.
Edit: Just saw you were posting on an alt…
How do you only have 7% vers at 200Ilvl? I am at 22/11% at 193.
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Typo its 12% vers, was looking at my pve set.
I’ve messed around with this talent in bgs and it’s such a bad talent for pvp. You get a 15% chance for a big pyro and the buff only lasts like 12 seconds.
It’s possible to crit that big but you’d need to let the mage free cast to get hit by it.
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You can share a SS but idk if it’ll help. Pyroclasm requires a hard casted pyroblast to give a 240% damage increase, which occurs as a proc 15% of the time after consuming hot streak.
If you really got hit by a 30k instant pyro either pyroclasm bugged (which I’ve never heard of) or this was in world PvP/BGs or something where other buffs were in place. Highest I’ve seen without pryoclasm is like 11-13k with double infernal cascade & fire legendary for dmg.
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World of Diablo is one hell of a game is how this happened.
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https ://i.imgur.com/kbIaFEw.jpg
It was casted, with an instant cast follow up at same time, Dragon’s Breath > I pop an instant heal to full soon as I get out then before I can los or anything else I’m 1 shot, partner was CCed by cyclone, so you can just not let them get a single hardcast pyro off all game is the counter? Sounds realistic vs a druid mage who can cc both of you at the same time eventually.
Mitchjones hit a WW for 25k in a 2s match. Just FYI, and that was two weeks ago. Gear has just improved since then. I’d attempt to find the VOD, but honestly, I have no reason to lie. The amount of things a mage needs to line up for it is nuts.
With pyroclasm you’re getting a 240% dmg buff on your next pyro in 12 secs that’s hardcasted, with a 15% of proc’ing off a hot streak. Also of note are the following factors that can boost damage:
- Rune of power 30% damage, auto-used with combustion
- Fevered Incantation Legendary, which loses you the 3x shields of Triune that most everyone runs, giving up to 15% extra dmg if you’ve crit 5x in a row prior to the cast
- Infernal Cascade giving 24-30% extra damage if combustion is used and 2x fireblasts are used before the cast is used
- Night Fae or any other 2x potency conduit could give both infernal cascade as well as the pyroblast dmg conduit, which is like 6% more pyro damage
So theoretically it can one shot someone but you need to:
- Consume a hot streak and get a 15% chance at having pryoclasm buff go up, which only lasts 12 secs
- Pop combust and use fireblasts prior to casting, all the while not having it dispelled or not going into CC
- Follow up the fireblasts with a hardcasted pyroblast and not have it stopped
I’m not saying it can’t be stupid, I’m just saying with the number of idiotic tools fire has to do gamebreaking burst atm, this talent feels borederline pointless. There are numerous ways to stop it once you know the buff to look for and you can do similar gamewinning damage just off any generic stun-meteor go with regular combustion and all instants
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No, it isn’t. He edited the post after he claimed he got 1 shot by combustion. He let the fire mage get off a 4s cast with a buff indicating he would get hit very hard if he did so.
Lol, as if you can stop every cast all game, casters wouldn’t exist if it was that was the case. This was literally minutes into the game, like I said they just CCed and kited till they had their RNG ready and trinkets were down. And stop saying it’s 4 seconds as if a little thing called haste doesn’t exist. This forum just tells you to interrupt or stun every single thing in the game, yep, that’s how the game works, nothing has CDs, CC doesn’t exist, yadayada. He got it off basically right after a dragons breath ended, it’s not that hard to land a long cast eventually.
No ability should 1 shot in this game, no matter how long the cast is or how much RNG it takes to proc. It’s a bit silly.
Agreed, this is the reason why glacial spike in Legion was hated on.
RNG until random 1 shot happens.
You let him get off a 4s cast with a buff called pyroclasm on him showing you that it would indeed do a lot of damage. Just interrupt it lol it isn’t even the reason mages are so broken right now. You’re complaining about something that isn’t even an issue.
nope he did get instant pyro there was a bug to get it before arena and it woudl apply on your next pyro… look it up
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one of the many mysteries in this game, when ppl tell you that you just have to interrupt x spell or ability so you don’t take any damage as if the caster is some retard who stand in the middle of a map and ask you to just interrupt it as if they would not try to set up their kill windows
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Its a game breaking bug, and it is cheating. you Should report those who are blatently abusing it to obtain rating,
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