I recently rerolled mage and have been watching all of the vids on how to do the rotation, including CDs and no CDs, opener and execute phase, etc. When I look at logs of good fire mages (at my ilvl), their ignite does the vast majority of their damage. My ignite hits like a wet noodle and I have no idea why. I have logs where fireblast did more damage! We cast about the same number of pyros, but somehow they generate huge ignites. What am I doing wrong???
Here is a log from warcraft logs.
reports/APtCQcpkMNvHTqZ4#fight=3
I know my gear (essences and azerite traits included) needs work and I am doing that, but would that account for the HUGE difference in ignite damage?
I know my gear (essences and azerite traits included) needs work and I am doing that, but would that account for the HUGE difference in ignite damage?
Yeah, you need to have the blaster master azertait trait or you will be doing horrible damage. The blaster master trait can easily increase your DPS by an UNREAL amount.
You also want the memory of lucid dream essence and the wrist from gnome place.
No problem, friend. I want to play arcane, it’s my favorite mage spec but sadly fire just out shines the two other specs by a huge margin. Once you get the gear and everything else for it, it can’t be topped.
Ignite damage can be really high because of combustion. During combustion you essentially don’t have crit stat. Combustion just set crit to 100% and half of crit turn into mastery instead.
With the everything into combustion rotation there are just so many pyroblast and fire blast during this super high mastery causing so much ignite damage.
This is also a reason why masterful corruption is competitive to expedient corruption. Even with mastery much lower stat weight. Since during combustion your mastery is actually mastery+0.5crit. That made the mastery corruption essentially work on 1.5 stats during combustion.
Dont forget either if you have a problem getting the bracers to drop on mythic + you can spam heroic workshop till they drop and at any ilvl the bracers are mandatory. So the 415 bracers will work just fine. Also you can get rank 1 lucid essence really fast, but ideally you want rank 3
One more thing, you need 2 on use trinkets. The staff that drops in workshop can be one of the on use but ideally you want font and a pvp trinket
Lol one more thing, once you get your 2 on use trinkets ask the tanks for 15 sec pull timers to line up the trinkets properly. Think I got it all this time
You have lots of issues which are going to cause a huge difference in DPS. FIrst of all, Mechagon bracers. These are probably the most essential piece of gear to do well as a fire mage. Spam low Workshop keys until you get them. Secondly, you need Blast Master traits on every piece of Azerite gear. Next, you need to get rid of most of the baseline crit on your gear. Theoretically, you literally want 0 crit rating, but that’s not possible to achieve because of the legendary cloak. But aim for no crit on your other pieces. And finally, on-use trinket. You absolutely need a badge/balefire/font or a combination of two to succeed at fire mage.
Ah yes, essences as well. Memory of Lucid Dreams is 100% needed in every situation. Spam Nazjatar follower dailies!
It’s actually a 20 second pull timer due to the 20 second cool down on trinkets. This is completely unique to fire mage. And you need a tank that’s willing to do it. The reason being is if you do the 4 second font use, you have the intellect buff for 30 seconds. So when you go into your rotation you get the second one use trinket buff, making your combustion hit for a hell of a lot more than you do with one on use trinket as you now have two intellect buffs increasing your spell power. I don’t play this style, but that’s the rationale behind double on-use.
Lemme let you in on a little secret how I got my bracers in one run. Are you ready?
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(Do a HM Mecha run with your friends, it has (almost) a guaranteed 430 bracer drop)
Wonder if I should try it with arcane spec just to see how big I can get the crits in the initial burn phase.
So far the biggest crits I’ve seen with arcane spec are around 320k arcane blasts during burn phase with potion, flask, Rune of Power, and 1 activated trinket.
Trinkets are roughly equal priority, and corruptions have much higher priority. A bit nitpicky I know, but overstating Bracers relative strength is a running theme of this patch.
You guys are the best. I really appreciate it and will put it into practice. First stop - bracers (I ran a +10 WS and got two new pieces, but no bracers)!