AQ40 Fire Mage PvE specs

[Blackhalo 0]

So with AQ40 coming out on Darrowshire soon I'm having a hard time finding the old vanilla wow fire specs we used to use. Messing around with the talent calculators I'm thinking 17/31/3  or  17/31/3 for pure PvE, and 10/38/3 for a little more utility (farming). Thoughts?

[Dozzy 0]

You always take 3/3 Master of Elements. For Progress I went 17/31/3, for later raids (and some more fun) 14/34/3 . The mana regen doesnt matter as much imo and sapper + blastwave combo are good for the aoe packs. Only on longer fights you generally have to use your rune/gem cd & manapot cd mixing it up with prot pots.

[Blackhalo 0]

So question with the 2/2 incinerate applying to ignite. How does the ignite stack work? Does the last crit just keep the debuff up? or is it like a queue and the last 5 crits = the total ignite tick. If the 5 little scorch crits set the ignite ticks damage it would be better to have less crit in scorch and fireblast (incinerate) so your crits are from fireballs, correct? Or does it not work this way?

[Blackhalo 0]

I think I may have found an answer. 
 

https://forum.elysium-project.org/topic/22298-ignite/

 

[Dozzy 0]

At AQ40 release on Ana all subsequent crits were stacking on the ignite (making for some big fucking ignites), but this has been fixed sometime ago. Afaik it should be the first 5 crits now and every crit after refreshes it. Unless you have a full worldbuffed magesquad that chains combustions (or is lucky with crits) its not that easy to keep 1 ignite up for a whole bossfight. Scorch crit also helps to regen mana and is decent for trash (most shit dies within 10-20s). It could happen you have a low ignite then just call to drop it and start again, but most of the times it will drop anyway.

[Oudeis 1]

On 9/4/2017 at 11:18 AM, Dozzy said:

You always take 3/3 Master of Elements. For Progress I went 17/31/3, for later raids (and some more fun) 14/34/3 . The mana regen doesnt matter as much imo and sapper + blastwave combo are good for the aoe packs. Only on longer fights you generally have to use your rune/gem cd & manapot cd mixing it up with prot pots.

What is the plan for a mage that want do AQ as fire but also BWL/MC? Are we casting 3 sec frostbolt? I know not all the boss are fire immune but having low dps on Nef must not be fun at all...

[Roxanne Flowers 15]

53 minutes ago, Oudeis said:

What is the plan for a mage that want do AQ as fire but also BWL/MC? Are we casting 3 sec frostbolt? I know not all the boss are fire immune but having low dps on Nef must not be fun at all...

Frostbolt or Arcane Missiles ... or ... Wand?

[Oudeis 1]

So do the damage of a Oomkin/Ret? That sound sooo fun...

[quasexort 4]

Can respec or do low damage.  I do BWL with fire spec and do low damage on bosses but it doesn't really matter if the bosses still dies.  Also fire is pretty good on trash in BWL.

[Dozzy 0]

Fire on everything that isnt immune, feel bad on everything that is. Unless you're in a guild that doesnt 'easily' clear BWL it shouldnt really be mandatory to respec. I'd normally bring an alt or just dangle at the bottom of the meters, giving the melee some time in the spotlight again. 

[Haestingas 30]

Theres a janky as fuck spec where you do decent damage in both instances. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#of0VZxgM0fchZVA0c That being said 95% of people know that AQ is where dps can be the difference between wiping and killing the boss, and mages are incredibly high impact dps there. 1 more crit can keep the ignite up, killing tentacles in stomach is huge.