PinkRoach

Should I just get rid of tailoring or save it since I am already almost maxed out

or should I just grit my teeth and get freakin' JC'ing already?

But then wont those gems be available to purchase via Emblems later on? @_@

 

◊ manly

Same as every other dot in wow. If you refresh living bomb, you lose partial ticks. If the dot ticks every 3 seconds, and you refresh at 5 seconds, then you have 2 seconds of wasted dot dps, since your tick will happen at 3 and 8 seconds if you do that.

Its particularly more notable when you have the explosion of living bomb happen at the end of it. You not only lose partial ticks, you also lose the explosion by refreshing too early. And thats not even mentioning mana.
If you go JC, the profession gain is limited by how good the jc-only gems are versus the non jc-only gems. Since it is unlikely they make new jc-only gems, but likely they add new gems later on, I expect the profession to scale down with progression.

Blacksmithing is the reverse. The better the gems are, the better the profession boost is.

Log on with different model:
1- Create a character of the desired model. Log on/off.
2- At character selection screen, select your actual character; mouseover the new, desired model character, and hold down left click; hit enter and release left click at the same time.
bug Arcane Potency only applies to the first Arcane Missile bolt.

 

PinkRoach

No, it should be part of your rotation and used every 12 seconds. Just make sure its up at all times. I noticed my DPS and damage both went up when I started using it in my rotations.

 

Skorp

My question is, which out of all of these listed is very easy to configure.. I want to only be able to track LB and possibly scorches, as well as have a graphic when HS procs. I don't want all the other crap that comes with mods. lol

 

◊ manly

PowerAuras is the best for displaying when you get a hot streak proc. I don't think there is anything else I'd want for it, or would want anything else. Its pretty much perfect for the task.

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bug Arcane Potency only applies to the first Arcane Missile bolt.

 

Delrain

It stacks with the +mana, however, the spell power does not. You still only get the +225 and both are called Mana Surge.

 

Minifridge

You can configure Parrot do do the following (expletives optional):



Huge pink text that shakes, it's pretty impossible to miss.

 

Tyrian

Yes, with a consolidated first-post summary to make it easy at-a-glance to review and find the mods your after.

 

Misch

Does Glyph of Fireball affect Frostfire bolt? (Exodar's scribes are agonizingly slow to level...)

 

Enthorn

No Misch, [Glyph of Fireball] does not affect Frostfire Bolt, as the tooltip clearly states Fireball. [Glyph of Frostfire] is what you are after.

 

Zeldyrr

This question is from a few pages back, but my testing has shown a different answer than what Manly provided on page three. In the scenario posed in the question, I am seeing the scorch over-write the winter's chill.

Raiding in Naxx last night, I was able to test this. There were two cases:

(1) If I started casting, got a single winter's chill up on the boss and then the frostfire mage hit his glyphed scorch, the scorch would overwrite the WC.

(2) On a couple of pulls, you had to run to get into position. During the run in, I spammed Ice Lance, and built up a 3 stack on the boss before the first scorch hit. In this case, the scorch did not apply--the WC stayed on the boss.

So the "stronger" of the two debuffs seems to get applied, with ties going to the debuff currently on the boss.

 

weenietot

Does Deep Freeze act as an interrupt on raid mobs that are immune to it when FoF is up? Akin to how I can use CS on raid bosses. Just curious.

 

Meghane

Does getting a critical strike on 3 different targets or more when casting an aoe fire spell eat up all of combustion or just one charge?

And do molten armor and individual dot ticking crits, from flamestrike specifically, eat up any charges as well?

 

Saruk

If you already use EBB, this also does a great job at displaying HS procs - I like the countdown bar you get for the duration of the proc, it gives you great control over when you release the pyro.

 

DPalmer5059

Hello all,
When would be a good time to switch to FFB Spec right now I'm 18/0/53 which I do like but I heard FFB was better. My current stats are 1415 Spelldmg, 209 Hit, 15.77 crit, 312 Haste. This is from strictly Heroics and Rep rewards etc. etc. Thanks again.

- Dirtymagik

 

Shazz

First, thanks for your reply.

And not to sound like a complete noob, but let's figure up some hit cap rating here if FFB is double dipping.

6% Elemental Precision
1% Heroic Presence
3% From Shadow Priest
----
10% Total for Alliance / 9% for Horde

Leaving only 7% hit to accomplish with gear/talents (8% for Horde).

Meaning,
7*26.23=184 Hit for Alliance
8*26.23=210 Hit for Horde

Is this approximation correct? Any confirmation would be appreciated.

 

aikiwoce

No, assuming it isn't one that can be stunned. CS doesn't work when the raid boss is immune to interruption.

 

◊ manly

Your numbers are off. I posted the proper numbers in the frostfirebolt thread.

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bug Arcane Potency only applies to the first Arcane Missile bolt.

 

Frosty2

I just rerolled horde from alliance and need suggestions on profs. I have skinning just because i need a good money maker for now. My old mage was Ench/LW. But I am not sure if LW or Tailoring will be better. and I would like to start on either one before i hit northrend.

 

Dustwhisper

Scorchio2 for scorch and livingbomb timers, warns you and also tells you when bomb blows up.
Satrinas buff-frame is what I use for hotstreek (and FOF etc when Im frostspec) with having a big icon in the middle of the screen with a DING sound.

 

Guintof

I read on the other thread about the fact that mirror image triggers a GCD on abilities out of GCD and therefore it should be put last, just before the main nuke in a macro.

I have tried macroing it but it wont work, I keep pressing the macro but nothing happens.

The macro in question is

#showtooltip Frostfire bolt
/use [combat] 13
/use [combat] 14
/cast [combat] Icy veins
/cast [combat] combustion
/cast frostfire bolt

I tried adding MI in between combustion and frostfire bolt but no go. Anybody else having luck with it?

Another question which I wonder, with glyph of scorch only requiring 2 scorches on mobs, is it worth stacking scorch on trash (Maybe 1 application)?

Lastly, on the FoF and frostbite issue, I understand that frostbite and FoF will always proc together but will Blizzard proc FoF at all if frostbite is not specced an vice-versa? (It seems to be current behaviour but is that intended though)

 

Actovision

Weird. Maybe it's case sensitive (which would be a bug?). I suggest this because you seem to be "mixing things up" with lower and upper in your macro.

The quintessential scorch question. I would point you to the Theorycrafting Think Tank entry on this issue, but it has been deleted and wasn't up to date anyway. Play it by ear and do whatever you prefer, it is largely irrelevant to your trash-clearing success.

Blizzard will not proc FoF unless at least one point is spent in Frostbite. This issue is known (to us, and hopefully blizzard), but whether it is intended behavior or not is still a mystery.

 

Guintof

As far as I know macros are not case sensitive. The macro posted above is working just fine however if I add MI between combustion and frostfire nothing happens when I press the macro (No frostfire gets cast, not sure whether trinkets/combustion/IV go off).

 

cbags

Maybe one of your trinkets or the MI is triggering a GCD, which prevents the FFB from going off.

 

Inoko

MI triggers a GCD.