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[bender5]

Originally Posted by rade0110

Are you sure that Ignite stacks? I've never heard of that happening before. And yes, I have all the proper glyphs for a FFB spec (Glyph of Frostfire, Improved Scorch and Molten Armor). Fire Blast is never a part of my normal rotation.

As far as not using Living Bomb... debatable. If you recast after every time it finishes you're adding 164.5 dps to your rotation (2139/13). Yes, you add one second to total time for GCD factors. On the other hand, you could also say that for every 2.5-3 casts of Living Bomb (32.5 seconds of added dps on the low end 39 on the high) you could have cast a Frostfire Bolt. So unless your casts for Frostfire Bolt averages more then 5346.25-6415.5 damage (164.5dpsx32.5seconds-164.5x39) you are losing dps. Averaging out your Frostfire Bolt would include the damage added for crits and Ignite. So if you are on the low end of bonus spell power or crit, using Living Bomb would be in your favor.

As for what I meant by my rotation being totally screwed up, it was more in reference to recasting scorch when someone just did, or for some reason not following my Living Bomb rotation the way it should be. Plus, there are those unfortunate times when I had to give up an instant pyro because I had a web spun around me, or locust swarm got too close and I was silenced. Basically, I'm rusty and need to not be an idiot when I cast.

Well as for me, my spellpower+crit chance+haste is really idealy balanced so that I have a 2.6 second cast that fully raid buffed has a 42% crit chance, and a crit will never crit for under 10k. So the living bomb dot really doesn't do a whole lot. I might change this philosophy when 3.1.0 comes out and get a living bomb glyph so that my individual ticks can crit. Making ticks go from 500 to 1k, so then it might be worth it. As for now the extra 1.5 seconds for the GCD isn't worth it imo.

And I'm positive that ignite stacks because my highest ignite tick ever, 28k, was on Loatheb. Not on Maly or Thadius where you get 100% damage increase. This is definitely caused from the fact that on that fight I have a 92% crit chance, and even if I'm only criting 11-12k it takes 40% of that crit, and then 40% of the next crit etc. So if you crit 9/10 casts and they are basically spaced 2.6 seconds apart the stack should theoretically never dissipate making the possibilities on that fight endless.