Smite nearly as much dps as incinerate

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I think smite is the highest dps single target hard cast filler spell in the game tbh, higher than fireball if we ignore ignite

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Extremely weird flex but ok

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Can we talk about incinerate’s animation, too? Looks like a thin snake with the tip of a match for a head traveling towards someone.

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ignite doesn’t do all that much without combust lol.

most fire mages only have 10-15% mastery at most

10-15% of 3.5-6k average fireball (2.2 baseline cast) isn’t all that much.

Smite also casts way faster then fireball.

Sidenote. How often do mages even get to cast fireball? Thats the problem with fire atm, how instant damage is insane but our casted damage beside gpyro is absolute poop. Disc is just on the radar since they are the only caster of any variety able to free spam fillers and have the hardest hitting filler of all ranged spell users

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That is so true! Lol

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Smite is actually the best ability in the game because it does so much:

  1. Absorbs damage from enemy attack
  2. Deals good damage itself
  3. Heals your party for the damage done
  4. Lowers CD of penance (if specced searing light)

Does any other ability in the game do 4 things at once? If not, smite the most OP ability. Often times I do more damage than my DPS partners in 2v2 arenas, but then again I love doing dmg as a healer and do so as holy pally, rsham, MW anyway.

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Let me stop you there and introduce you to my best friend Cyclone (RIP 2007-2016 I miss you dearly every day my sweet love)

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yeah lets talk about incinerate are you trying to trigger me

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Yeah ik. Its been the top single target dps spell before modifiers since like cataclysm or something. I’ve been really really upset for a long time about this. LOL.

I figured a fire mage spamming fireball would eventually top smite spam on a dps chart with a fat ignite stack but maybe not without those pyros :confused:

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lets all roll disc priests and q bgs but dont play as healers just try to kill people

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Let’s run 5 disc 5’s if they bring back the bracket

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if more than one person uses dark does it stack?

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They buffed non-bolt damage early on. Destro used to win out in 2s in Legion by going deep enough into dampening to outlast other teams and beat them into submission. Basically you’d get to the point where your filler damage would be enough to sustain pressure that instant casts at that level of dampening wouldn’t be enough to heal through. The enemy healer would then have to spam some kind of heals and either eat a bolt because you can’t move and cast, or eat an interrupt and choke on some more filler.

Deep into dampening now though is like 7 minutes and getting out Infernal #3 and hoping that they don’t LOS you because you’re not going to be competitive in an outlast match with our weak pressure.

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AFAIK DAA doesn’t stack.

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Mindflay ticks like 1.1k

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Complaining about smite. I’m holding my nose because it stinks In here

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We’re not complaining about smite. We’re complaining about game design. Nobody’s saying disc does too much damage. We’re saying, why isn’t that damage seen on an actual dps class from hard casting.