Monday, April 16, 2012

rethinking flame orb

awhile ago i stopped popping flame orb at very beginning of pull and started waiting til i had a strong combustion before popping it. This due to ignite munching of course. I'm still seeing good ignites munched by the orb and getting to the point where i hate to pop it except at points in fights where i have adds or a lot of movement that minimizes good ignites. for example last time i dps'd argolath i popped orb at beginning of each firestorm and thats it.

i really think orb needs to be removed from the ignite table as well and would like to see it get a small buff in damage to make up for the lost ignites. Would also like to see living bomb get a damage buff as well.

Not holding my breath waiting for damage buffs though so in the meantime how are you guys feeling about the orb and how are u making use of it? I know it makes a pretty decent amount of damage so im thinking of popping it right after my big spellpower buffs drop off that tend to give me my big ignites.


You should always pop it when you can.
It doesn't cause any ignite, so no ignite munching. You probably got confused.
really? my ignite moniter that i have up sure show ignite munching going on when its up - watching 17K ignites drop to 1800 - seeing alot of it - is mage nuggets ignite moniter defective?

You should always pop it when you can.
It doesn't cause any ignite, so no ignite munching. You probably got confused.


The only person confused here, is you.
Flame Orb damage is now a DoT Damage. That happened after the last patch.
Because of that it doesn't cause any ignite when flame orb crits.

Just go to a Trainning Dummy and only pop your Flame Orb, you won't see any ignite when it crits.
Flame Orb damage is now a DoT Damage. That happened after the last patch.
Because of that it doesn't cause any ignite when flame orb crits.

Just go to a Trainning Dummy and only pop your Flame Orb, you won't see any ignite when it crits.


Go use Flame Orb on an actual mob, and come back and post your results.

While you're at it, try Impact on a dummy and see what happens (last I checked, dummies are bugged so any sort of analysis based on a dummy right now, isn't accurate)
I did what you said. I went to a mob and tried using Flame Orb.
Even with these conditions, the critical strikes from Flame Orbs don't create any ignite.

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