Just got Dragonwrath yesterday, and I've been wondering if someone could share his experience regarding Dragonwrath proc, ignite munching, and Alyzrazor.

Should I switch to another weapon during the burst/combustion phase to prevent ignite munching? Assuming I usually spec out of Hotstreak on Alyz.

hi
for alysrazor P3 after flying and having the buff i have 2 questions (fire)

because of the crit buff from getting 24 stacks crits are garunteed during the buff
this leads to massive ignite stacking - which i abuse by waiting then using the moonwell chalice (+dot damage) and comb as a macro together

1) with pyro procs - does a proc followed by a normal cast (GCD + cast time) let ignite tick and drop half?
should i be casting the more regular fireball (1 sec GCD with buff) on phase 3 to stack ignite?

2) does combustion have its crit% follow your current crit% or does it get fixed on cast?
should i use combustion with 10s to go (all during 100% crit time) or at 1s to go (max ignite)

First of all, Combustion doesn't benefit from MWC, at all. You have to pop MWC at the start of your burn, to make sure your ignites are bigger. Combustion itself doesn't benefit from it.

You should spec out of Hotstreak (both HSs) for this. Getting the proc is the surefire way of messing it up and doing exactly what you said.

Lastly, you need to Combustion with 10 seconds left for guaranteed crits on all ticks.

Actually this is exactly the opposite - only the amount of mastery at the time of casting combustion matters for combustion's damage. Presumably the server's ignite dot information includes the raw pre-mastery size, which is then used by the combustion spell to contribute to pre-mastery dps. You can test this easily on any training dummies.

Here's an example comparison of the mana neutral cycle depending on how many AM ticks you use:

2 ticks: 22414.00 dps
3 ticks: 23462.60 dps
4 ticks: 23196.22 dps
5 ticks: 23346.97 dps

So there does seem to be some benefit to clipping at 3 ticks, but it's probably highly dependent on you clipping at the very right time to not waste time. Would probably need more data on how spell queuing interacts with clipping to be more sure.

EDIT: The above effect seems to be related to 3 tick AM using gcd queue time in Rawr model compared to channel queue time for the others. Setting latency time to 0 in all cases gives:

3 ticks: 23580.87 dps
4 ticks: 23723.98 dps
5 ticks: 23843.85 dps

Are critical chance bufs the only modifiers that affect the tick damage or other behavior of a DOT when they are altered during its effect, and if yes, does intellect do it as well, since it indirectly provides critical chance?

As far as I know, only crit chance affects dots without some sort of refresh event (I know for sure that spellpower, int-spellpower, haste, and mastery don't affect at least fire mage dots). I'd assume that int's crit contribution does, but I have not tested it (and am frankly not willing to spend the hours needed to at 85). In fact, the only contribution I have seen tested is the flat percentage chance given by Alysra's Razor.

If someone did want to double-check crit _rating_, and possibly int, probably the least painful way would be a level ~10 caster with full heirlooms and changing gear sets with a dot on a dummy.

Is anyone aware of the new proc % for DTR specifically for mages, after the advertised reduction in 4.3? The warlock forum is talking about a 8.5% proc chance now, as opposed to 17% before. I believe mages were getting around 11% proc before; if they are halving the chance, then we could see a new chance of 5.5% - does this number match anyone's testing?

I kept Living Bomb up on 3 target dummies with no other spells for a few minutes and was able to get 38 procs out of 680 ticks, which comes to 5.6%. The 5.5% estimate seems pretty accurate.

For now Arcane explosion is the way to go for an arcane mage for the best AOE. Whith even de ABx4 stack up for 5sec, we do a lot of damage.

My question is if it would give even more dps if you would do
ABx4- AE-AE-AE AB AE-AE-AE AB
Instead of
ABx4 AE-AE-AE-AE-AE-AE-AE-AE-AE-AE-AE-AE-AE-

with other words you keep the AB stack up on 4 delivering 52% more damage with AE but lose one AE and get a AB instead)

Any sugestions?

I have 1151 haste, to be precise, and I've had the same experience as ygritte.