andastra

Nevermind. I'm stupid and didn't have the macro in my toolbar.

 

Inoko

Silence and Interrupt are two very specific in game functions.

Silence blocks all spell casting for a period. AKA: the duration of the silence.

Interrupt mechanics are those like Counterspell which "stop" a spell mid cast (Pummel, Counterspell, kick, etc.) and then lock out that school.

Imp. Counterspell is both an interrupt (school lock) and a silence (all schools locked via the secondary effect)

So: no, it doesn't work the way you're thinking.

 

Enthorn

Burning Determination procs off of things that interrupt your spells. I've never had Burning Determination proc off of a stun, probably because stuns are a different mechanic than spell interruptions (such as Kick, Earth Shock, Counterspell, Gag Order, etc.)

Anything that either prevents you from casting spells, or resets your spell cooldowns, is going to proc Burning Determination. Yes, it does last for 10 seconds, and it's immensely useful against shorter interruptions like Earth Shock and Gag Order or just the silence component of counterspell.

Basically, there are different mechanics at play here:

Gag Order, Improved Counterspell: Apply Aura: Silence
Counterspell, Kick, Pummel: Interrupt Cast

These are the things Burning Determination procs from, but not "Apply Aura: Stun." That's what Blink is for ;-)

 

tharus

Hello,

i just have one question.

I use Living Bomb in my Skillrotation by this macro:

#showtooltip
/cast Living Bomb(Rank 3)
/script Stopwatch_Play();
/stopwatch 12


Is there any Chance to change the "ding" sound for the end of the timer to a different sound or is there any addon for this?

thanks

 

Noisiu

With all the changes for 3.0 and Wrath, I keep hearing this 9% hit cap talk among some of the mages in my guild. I can't, however, seem to get where they pulled that number from.

17% hit for cap - 1% draenei, 3% talents, 3% raid buff - 10% still needed.

What the hell am I missing?

 

Nurru

Your Mages are stupid and the cap is 17%.

< Aislinana> Why would it be my job to sleep with vontre? Don't I have standards?

 

Rayeth

Are any of your Mages melee re-rolls? That would explain the 9% comment as that is the number melee shoot for on their yellow damage attacks. As noted above casters need 17% to cap out against boss level mobs.

 

Sojeph

FFB mages with 0/53/18 can get away with 9% if they have full raid, 6% from EP 3% on shadow priest or druid so 8% but that only works for FFB and other frost spells

 

Lileith

Probably have been discussed somewhere in the warlock forum but :

If I'm running with a Moonkin with Earth and Moon, and the warlocks then use dps curses instead of element. Will I see an increase of partial resist due to the lack of resist debuff? Or it doesn't matter as long as the boss isn't like Supremus/Rage?

 

Lileith

Delete : Double post

 

Dustwhisper

With FFB the AOE DPS isn't very good but that's okay, I've tried deep frost and was hitting 15k DPS on trashmobs that could be novaed (chaincasting with frostbiteprocs and WE Freeze). What is a bit annoying to see these days which isn't really raid-based but farmingbased is the fact that a lot of classes can out AOE-grind me so easily. I find that to be an insult!

 

Systemtemp

Farming with FFB spec = FAIL!
Go either Arcane or Frost if you want to farm/level. 50g is not that much nowadays

 

Dustwhisper

Oh absolutely =) I go a 10/0/61 spec to farm with shattered barrier and the works for AOE farming =) I'm just saying I find it lackluster compared to other classes (eg. paladin). Sure our numbers are impressive but if just one gets through he pushes back/interupts your blizzard, takes half your health and screws up everything whilst other classes bask in the sunlight getting autohealed while picking up a gazillion frostweave cloth :P

 

Jonny_Monroe

I have no problems AoE grinding as frostfire. Its all about being able to improvise.

For my own curiosity I once tried AoE grinding as 0/0/0 in TBC and still found 6-mob pulls to be possible if you use the full range of skills at your disposal.

OMNOMNOM.

 

Dustwhisper

What is your FFB AOE method? Livingbomb, round up mobs, frostnova, flamestrike, flamestrike, coc ?

 

Light4

I have some questions regarding specs.

I know perfectly well that FFB is king, but for personal reasons I like to stay arcane (58+slow). I also am still questing (loremaster inc.) and arcane is quite fun for that as well.

Since we start Naxx 10 and 25 in about 1-2 weeks I used Rawr to get some impression on the specs using all my equip fpr the optimizer which is at my immediate disposal.
However, I can get no reliable results about where to spend the remaining 12 points. I understand, that it is advantageous to use FB as a filler during heroism because of the haste softcap of AB. However, IV and improved FrB are also nice to have as they practically increase the amount of spells cast under AP (thinking of ABar,AB,FrB rotation if above the softcap for haste - exchange AB/FrB for MBAM on procs because of equal cast time).

Questions:
1) How should I model the MBAM in the custom spell mix for above sequence?
My idea: ABar=1, AB=0.975, FrB=0.975, MBAM=0.15

2) What is the general consensus about an offtree for arcane?
Frost gives higher Frost crits, IV and 3% additional hit while fire gives 6% crit on AB and Ignites on FB. Furthermore, it allows for FBABar rotation during heroism.
Rawr comes up with pretty equal results, so I am somewhat at a loss.

3) Has there been done any testing on raid bosses regarding TtW and snare effects counting towards it apart from slow? All info I could find is from older builds or patches.

 

DeimosXI

I am using the following with success.

/cast Combustion
/cast Icy Veins
/use 13
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Frostfire bolt
/cast Frostfire bolt

- Combustion is always the last to come off cool down. By putting it first in the macro my cool down counter shows when all abilities are ready.
- MI last with GCD.
- 2 x FFB to compensate for lag and possible GCD from MI.

I am running around 230 haste so this may be a factor, but the above is working fine for me.

 

◊ manly

If I were to make a guess, your macro will stop casting frostfire bolts as soon as mirror image is on cooldown.

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.

 

Tyrian

Can someone please give a quick list of useful Fire/FFB related addon names they have found most useful? I haven't been reading up in the UI forums lately and the comments here are scattered. Namely the best mods for Living Bomb (Help avoid it falling off/not have to look through 30 raid buffs+other LB's to track yours) and watching Hot streak/scorch is what I had in mind - but are there any other specific mods I might be missing that really should be considered?

 

DeimosXI

Not sure how it works but it doesn't cancel the FFB. Might be a combination of my haste (around 230) and my lag (avg 500+) that allows it to work.

Living Bomb - Quartz Cast Bar - Tracks living bomb, FFB dot and scorch with timers above cast bar.
Hot Streak - Power Auras - Can be configured to give graphical and audio queues when Hot Streak is active so you don't miss it.

 

• Seonid

Most common ones seems to be Scorchio2 for tracking LB/Scorch debuff and PowerAuras for HS proc notification. I use both and they certainly seem fit-for-task, though there may be others.

 

Sojeph

Are there any current macros to allow you to spam and when hot streak procs it casts the pyroblast?

 

• Seonid

No - such macro's would require conditional statements which are unable to be used in combat, as has been the case for a very long time.

 

Sojeph

k thanks didnt no if they ever changed that. And would it be more useful to reapply LB when your trinkets/rings pop. Like at the moment im using Shaffar's Nexus Horn, and Band of Eternal Sage, they seem to always proc together would it increase the damage alot or is it not worth wasting the mana

 

MyrddinE

Is there any trinket better than [Illustration of the Dragon Soul] for plain DPS? Does using a +800ish spellpower trinket on a 2 minute timer (when stacked with haste cooldowns) work out better than the constant +260 spellpower of this trinket?