Could be that they changed the behavior to make magma more attractive during AE but it was definitely staying locked for me when I last tested it.

It was 6 targets last time I did the math if you can be sure that searing totem is hitting your primary target so your LL will be consuming a 5 stack. Without that, I think it was 4 targets to be worth the swap.

I am interested to know how many targets the FS dot be active on at any point in time. I am aware of the mathematical possibilities, but is there a cap imposed? Will it be possible to tab target onto a 6th FS target?

Further to this, if we cleave a FS off our target how does the AI handle which targets will become affected by the cleave? If a nearby target already has FS dot, will it refresh that or go to a different target? If it goes to a different target, what is the maximum number of targets that it will go to?

Finally, is there a limit to the number of targets that will 'explode' when using Nova?

I am thinking about the value of the FS glyph on certain Dragon Soul encounters. A 30 sec FS dots opens up a lot of AOE DPS potential if there are no caps imposed, and if cleaving priorities unaffected targets.

As far as I could tell there was no cap outside of the AE cap on individual fire nova explosions. It won't refresh an active flame shock and it won't apply flame shock to a CCed target. Multi-dot spreading just reduces the number of available targets for the spread, so if there are enough targets then multi-dotting should be an effective strategy.

Napkin math had it at 17 targets when glyphed, with reverb, and spreading without concern for the duration of the spread flame shock, ie it would only be 17 targets for a very limited window and then some flame shocks would start to expire. 16 targets should be far more maintainable by using an alternating system of multi-dotting a flame shock and then refreshing the existing flame shock on your lava lash primary target. 13 targets without multi-dotting but with refreshing FS just prior to LL spread.

Without glyph you are looking at 11 for maintainable spread with multi-dotting, reverb, and refreshing prior to spread. Without multi-dotting it drops to 9 targets.

Reverberation seems to make multi-dotting far more functional. Without reverb it's looking like it might be better to hold the shock cooldown till just before the LL spread. Whether that will change reverberation's valuation seems to be the real question here. The glyph is definitely something we should plan on using whenever there will be more then 11 targets (9 targets without reverb) present for any significant duration.

World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis

Flameblast procced back to back within < 2 seconds, followed by another proc 4 seconds later. I'm not going to say that it doesn't have an ICD, but if it does it's extremely short (< 2 seconds).

Any idea if Flameblast ever 'consumed' UE-FT? It doesn't look as though it did in my brief log search, but the considerably higher average damage over Iceblast makes me wonder. If it doesn't consume UE-FT then perhaps it benefits from the buff -without- consuming it.. or the innate damage range on Flameblast is just that much higher. Something to look for.

According to that log it does not consume UF and the damage increases don't appear to line up with the UF up-time. The swing in damage you are seeing is more a confirmation that the proc is affected by Mastery as some of those higher damage procs do line up with his trinket buffs.

[23:25:01.450] Goombamfx Flameblast Raider's Training Dummy 21673
[23:24:54.998] Goombamfx Iceblast Raider's Training Dummy 22229

Most likely both are benefiting from the same Matrix proc which is why both of their damages is that high and so close in value.