Taking out ignite would kill the Fire mastery, make Combustion very weak, hamper mobile damage and significantly reduce AoE cleave potential. The ignite bug may be a pain but the spec would need a complete redesign if ignite was removed.

Perhaps if, as blue posts have suggested, 50% of ignite damage is lost then the amount ignite burns for should be increased to compensate for this. If Ignite inflicted 80% of crit damage as a dot, rather than 40%, assuming 50% of ignite damage is lost overall, the total overall ignite damage should end up somewhere about the intended 40%. It's a bit crude but it's better than removing something that has always been *the* feature of the Fire spec.

Short answer, Eng/Tailoring should be the best combo in the long run.

Long answer, assuming you have access to the new wrist enchant, Tailoring will be the best. Since Eng's benefit is "on use", it can be combined with cooldowns to increase it's worth, making it 2nd best. However, if you do not have access to this new enchant, staying a LW would be the best in the short run until the enchant is available to you. Also of note, having engineering will alter which items are best for you to have in the end. As you will want to have the engineering helm instead of tier, and since synapse springs cannot be combined with trinkets you would want to avoid "on use" trinkets.

You're forgetting one very important thing though; the only one thing that really is important @ AC heroic is the p3 dps, there's really nothing that'd outdo demo there. As for winning meters, Halfus is probably better to be destro? Valiona depends on playstyle and assignment I'd suppose, as well as rng with the dmg buff. As for Cho'gall I'd assume affliction has a slight edge due to the SB:seed, but I'm not that sure.. I can't comment on Sinestra as I haven't played her, but I think demo might be viable!

I'm kind of new to using SimCraft so I was hoping someone might be able to tell me why the newest version is not displaying stat weights. The older version just had to seem it pop up but I can't seem to find it on the new one.

Thanks!

I agree to a certain degree Ignite has been there forever, and normally I would be in favor of not changing it, but equally there have been issues with Ignite for ages. They've made many changes to the other specs primary mechanics such as arcane got Arcane Blast, and frost got a pet. Why not change fire and Ignite, so long as it is replaced with a feasible idea?

Just consider if Ignite was renamed I don't know maybe Cinder? The tool tip would read 'Chance on critical hit for hot sparks/cinder in reaction to ignition to be instantly launched from the mage's hands (scales with spell power, works while moving)' and this talent would work like the chance to deal X amount of damage trinkets (think reign of dead/unliving, or more currently DM:hurricane trinkets). I know this might sound lack luster in a way but with the proper animation it could become very interesting. Ultimately it may be easier to implement in game or may not?

They can keep increasing the amount ignite burns for in order to compensate for munching, but keep in mind that you still won't likely be happy with ignite if it just does not do its theoretical output. As far as Combustion goes, it can be worked around such a change. In any case it may just be me, and I do like Combustion, but I still find it kind of clunky and needs smoothing out some way or another. Anyway just my thoughts on fire's troubles.

Previously addressed, please delete.

Looks like they're hotfixing Raging Blow from 120% at max level to 100%. I guess this makes Mastery a little less valuable again.

Forgive me if this has been mentioned, but during the patch did they change sudden doom to being proc per minute? Wouldn't this make putting 3 points into sudden doom relatively worthless?

I've noticed that my pen. shots seems to be hitting more often or at least for a higher % of my dmg. So I was wondering if it was better to use the hyena, since I seldom run with druid, for the bleed debuff. Or if it would still be a dps loss over useing the wolf or cat for a need buff.

An excellent way I've discovered (from another Mage) to generate a good first combustion while trinket/profession procs are up is to simply being the fight casting a single scorch for critical mass and then spamming fireballs until you hit a hotstreak. After using the hotstreak, cast living bomb and press combustion. This essentially eliminates the loss of ignite due to munches from living bomb and flame orb.

It lasted :s