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Question about hot streak and scorch
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Zakkhar
Pyroblasts can only be up to 50% of your dps if you spam them (need to put at least 2 scorches in between).
Scorch scales terribly, this setup is only viable for PvP. Dont try this for PvE.
Scorch is a 1.5s cast therefore its spellpower coeficient is only 42.86%, Frostfire bolt has 85.71% (100.71% with Empowered Fire), Fireball has 100.0% (115.0% with Empowered Fire).
You get extra 6% crit on scorch sure, but FFB glyph gives you 2% and FB glyph gives you 5%.
It will be greatly MP inefficient and just lower damage than Fireball or Frosfirebolt as a main nuke.
50% crit is nothing. I got 75% crit with Frostfire bolt raid buffed and it still doesnt let me spam Pyroblast.
1. <1.5 sec casts mean more flexibility in fights were you have to move quickly. (10-man H ToC, Hodir, etc.)
You can perfectly be able to cast 1 spell before moving in any fight that requires it. If you are having problems with that go Arcane which is high haste oriented spec.
2. The main source of damage isn't the scorch being better of frostfire, because that isn't ever going to happen, it is proccing hot streak way more often and the bulk of the dps increase comes from Pyroblast.
Have you tested it? Pyroblast may be the main scource of your damage, but not because you will Pyro more frequent than typical FB or FFB build. Your main nuke will just hit like a wet noodle. Not hard to overdps that.
3. With the constant scorch debuff on the boss, the +5% damage from the 10 man raid is a significant overall boost in raid dps that pushes the spec up to and possibly more than Arcane which gives a 3% focus mind buff to another character in raid and yourself for most of the fight if not all of the fight.
You have troubles keeping constant Scorch on boss you should spec Arcane. You wont have the duty. As fire you only need to cast 5 scorches in the begining and toss 1 every 30s. If thats too hard for you, sorry. You should reroll.
It wont Proc Hot steak way more often. Definatelly not way more often than Fireball (as it gets 5% crit from glyph), and maybe not much more often than FFB (2% from glyph). You will surely cast Scorch more times, but its still RNG dependant. Will just have more tries.
With the same gear she uses for Arcane (So under hit capped by 3% and less crit then i would have liked to gem for, but more haste.) She does roughly
2800-2900 dps
with molten armor and arcane intellect only as buffs. So, no food buffs, no icy veins, no trinkets or anything. While using her frostfire build she is sporting a 39.33% crit rate for fire spells (45.33% on scorch). The rotation I used was Living Bomb>Scorch repeated until Hot Streak Procs then hitting Pyroblast whenever it Procs. The DPS was
2500-2600
. So, my conclusion is that it might be viable
Lack of logic. It doing 15% lower damage makes it viable?
Also comparing Fire to Arcane in same gear setup is retarded. Fire needs mainly crit, Arcane needs haste. Both builds need their crucial glyphs.
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