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◊ Kaubel · 07/18/08, 10:35 PM

Post: [Mage] Sweet Informational Thread
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I am a reasonably well geared fire mage who has a question about improved scorch. I have read over and over again that stacking imp scorch is crucial to a fire mage's DPS. My question is: is this always the case?

Here is my armory link: The World of Warcraft Armory

I am in mostly ZA/Badge gear and and full 10/48/3 raid specced fire. My source of confusion comes from RAWR. When I load up my gear in RAWR 14.1, it comes back with 1125dps for fireball and 1112dps for fireball+scorch.

Anecdotal evidence I have seen in game seems to support this. When I find myself worrying about scorch too much, my DPS goes down. My strategy for my ZA run last night was to stack 2-3 scorches on the trash mobs, then fireball. For bosses, I would of course stack 5 scorches and refresh them after 6-8 fireballs. Is this suboptimal?

Thanks,

Smashr (Noria)