yup, that’s all, make flamestrike cast on target so I’m not trying to do mechanics while throwing down a ground target spell every 0.5 seconds during combustion. This is crazy
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Just make a macro to cast it at your targets location then
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I would love to do that. Blizzard does not allow that function to work currently with flamestrike. Give it a try.
You can cast @cursor but I use my mouse to move and look around at mechanics so it’s a play style that just doesn’t work for me
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Damn, I’m an idiot then. Never tried it but assumed functionality would be there after all these years especially since you can self cast ground reticles on yourself in the same way (priest feather etc)
Wonder if you could set the tank as your focus and then make an @focus macro for it?
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That’s a smart work around on the tank but unfortunately also doesn’t work. Cursor and yourself, that’s all 
you could theoretically pretend you’re a fury warrior and stay in melee with @player flamestrikes but that feels stupid lol
Simply needs to happen. Strange how certain spells are allowed to work this way on other classes, but not everyone can do it.
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Other games have done that with reticle spells for ages. If I remember correctly SWTOR launched with that feature well over a decade ago. I genuinely don’t understand why Blizzard won’t do it. Unless of course it’s a coding issue that they just can’t fix.
It doesn’t seem to be a coding issue. It’s a design choice. There’s a talent selection for Shadow priests that allows Shadow crash to be at cursor or at target. They should add this choice to one of the other neutral talents, for flamestrike, and also make this a choice for meteor.
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Just like shaman’s earthquake, you get to choose between both options.
Yeah, would be especially nice if they added the mechanic for the meteor projectile to land on your target, despite projectile travel time, just like with shadow crash too.
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Yes, please!
They gave shadow priest and elemental shamans a choice node.
Sunfury meteorites should also follow the target, I missed 90% of them when questing, I had to face tank mobs to actually land it.
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Oh they’re not fast enough? That’s a crud for pvp
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I would be fine with an option for this to exist, but in 99% of situations this is terrible and would never want to be forced to play it.
This is one of those things that Blizzard is stubbornly clinging to the past.
There will be some that say “LOL git gud” but the targeting reticle should either be given an option to cast at your target or be removed entirely for all offensive spells.
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Yeah it’s literally leads me to just not play any spec with a reticle spell. It contradicts the way I move my character, also if you want to do mouseover interrupt etc, just poor game design I dunno
This is still a vestige from SL where Flamestrike didn’t contribute to hot streak and you had to SHIFTING POWER mid combust which was even more bananas. Now that it does and we have to frantically @cursor with our mouse while also trying to move with ADSWQE it’s somehow more asinine
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I mean, they got an option for that on Shadow-Crash for priests — So I don’t really see why they can’t present the same option for fire-mage (Presenting the option to whether or not you want it cast on select location, or on target).
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I agree. They have it as an option on Shaman for earthquake in the talent tree now. Why not extend this choice to fire mages.
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Honestly, it’d make sense to implement the option for a handful of aoe-target spells.
- Demon Hunter Sigils (DH)
- Death & Decay (DK)
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- Flamerstrike (Mage)
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- Blizzard (Mage)
- Rain of Fire (Warlock)
- Ursol’s Vortex (Druid)
To name a few
Heck, if they wanted to apply a 5% damage reduction or even a 20% active-spell-time reduce for the auto-applications – I’d still be fine with that, because at least the option would still be there & may even be more viable for different circumstances & situations 