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

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.

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 ;-)

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

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?

Your Mages are stupid and the cap is 17%.

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

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?

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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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?