So sad hitting a heroic boss with cooldowns and lust at the start of an encounter and seeing the top 10 dps pulling 2mil+ burst while im struggling to maintain 1 mil. The whole design of a fire mage was up front burst and dps dropping off over time with spikes every set of cooldowns. Now its just bottom dps from the first pull.
Im 611ilvl with 4 set and it means nothing. Is arcane easy to pick up? I havent played it before…
Depressing.
Switch to arcane. You will be happier. There are multiple WA that basically tell you what buttons to hit (with procs).
Ive itemised for fire, is arcane the same stat prio?
They’re somewhat similar. You’re not too far for just switching. Haste haste haste and all.
I’ve been averaging about 1.9-2.2m on the opener as fire at 614 you may be doin something wrong.
I went over logs from last night to see and alot of the time I was getting like 2m+ really depends on procs. But lust on opener with a PI and troll racial makes some decent damage, sadly if I went arcane it would still be higher. The real problem IMO is pyro / flamestrike are still doing like 20-30% less damage than they should.
I do miss the bigger burst profile. I think fire playstyle is great right now, but wish the lows were lower and the highs were higher.
Yeah you could be right, the new rotation im kind of getting used to still. My priority order is:
Shifting power (outside combust) > Scorch proc for 6% debuff > hot streak > fire blast > phoenix flames - and i usually try to save up a few fire blasts for each upcoming combustion. Im not really tracking anything like in past expacs such as the fire orb things or anything.
I’m not sure what you’re currently running with but I have a pretty strong burst on fire. When Hyperthermia procs, I hit combust and all of sudden I’m firing instant pyroblasts, each criting. Combine that with a time warp proc from time anamoly and you can make Xal’atath run for her life in fear.
I’ve ended Solo Shuffle rounds in seconds with this combo.
It does have burst.
I guess for some people as long as your damage profile doesn’t look like a roller coaster you don’t have burst.
Ridiculous.
Even skb has more than decent levels of burst, inferno has good levels of burst, almost great, fire is just a bit under tuned.
I think it has to do with how fast the boss dies. If you’re doing heroic dungeons, forget it. Most likely any geared melee will outperform you or arcane will just blow you away. The boss does not live long enough for fire to shine.
Really just depends on how good people are that you play with im on top most of the time or atleast top 3