thanks a lot for your answer!
Ignited should definitely be 2nd or 1st for damage done.
oh it is my 1st for damage, I just noticed the other mage had a lot more ignite damage than me, and a tiny bit less of pyro and fireball damage, which I thought was odd and made me think I do something wrong
Whats your crit% at?
Whats your rotation%?
Whats your combustion rotation?
my crit is around 52 to 54% I am still gearing up and it varies
my rotation is spamming fireball until I get a flaming up, then fireblast during the next fireball cast
I also have 16% mastery without combustion, which might be too low? I do have it on most items, though
You should definitely be ignite stackinf. When you proc a hotstreak, save it, cast a fireball, and release the pyroblast at the same time as the fireball flies out. Not only does this give you the biggest possible ignite, but it gives you a bigger chance at another hotstreak because I believe there is a
.5 second window where if either your Pyroblast or Fireball were to activatw hotstreak, it wont cancel it out if only 1 crit.
I absolutely do that, whenever I have a fireblast ready, I always cast fireblast when I am casting a fireball to shoot both the fireball and the pyro at the same time. I guess phoenix flames is where I do it wrong
Combustion is a huge part of this. My rotation for a burst is basically this-
Fireball until I get a hotstreak going
Fire blast to fully activate it
Rune of power
Cast another fireball, combustion near the end of cast, release pyroblast at end of cast
Pyroblast again since both FB and PB benefit from combustion
Fire blast
Pyroblast
Phoenix flames
Pyroblast
B) Fireblast(phoenix flames is there to buffer the cd of fireblast if it recharged fast enough, otherwise go to A if there are still seconds left)
A)Flame on
Fireblast
Pyroblast
Fire blast
Pyroblast.
If you have Hero, during B you can keep using Phoenix Flame until 1 fire blast recharges(as to not waste the recharge of it) before flaming on.
Otherwise you dont want to really phoenix during combustion because the Global Cooldown(GCD) it gives(Hero/more haste gives you a smaller GCD).
I feel that's how I do it as well, get it going and then just spam fireblast and pyro until everything is out,with flame on for 2 extra fire blasts. when all the fireblasts are gone I use phoenix to get some more pyros in the window
If you are not in a burn phase, Fireball/Pyroblast is your standard rotation. If you used Rune of Power for Combustion, you can safely cast it twice before your next combustion is up(on average, if using kindling) and it will be up for combustion again.
Crit is your most important stat, to the point where even if an item is 870, of your 825 piece has more crit, crit is valued more than int. Mastery is your second important stat.
Your other mage in the guild probably has his combustion rotation down, since Combustion adds your crit total to stat(so personally I end up having around 50%-60% mastery while combustions up) meaning each pyroblast you cast will do around 120ishk per second from ignite(and if you can properly stack it, sometimes even hire.)
Crit. Most important. Kindling is the best tier 7 talent as well(or is it 6?) as it allows combustion to be up more(most fights up to 3-4 times.)
I have kindling, and I think it got combustion down, I also use rune on cd to the point that I always have one ready for combustion. But maybe I should take a closer look at my combustion rotation, I just try to get as many pyros out as possible with fire blast and some phenixes I am just confused the other mage had so much more ignite damage than me, while his fireball and pyro damage was a bit lower than mine.
For Xavius its a special case, you can combustion twice while in dream and when you get out of dream all your CDs reset. Its also easy to buffer ignite/dps on Xavius after 3rd pbase, so dont look at damage on him as an indicator.
hmm ok, I'll keep that in mind
so far I *think* I am doing everyting like you, which is also what the guides said, I guess one thing I am not 100% sure of is when to use phoenix properly, at the moment I use it when heating up pops up during a global cooldown (like after releasing both a fireball and a pyro)
