Saturday, April 14, 2012

Simplify Ignite please!

[:1]When I respecced to fire and read up on the rotation at EJ, the biggest question I was left with was: When do I use Combustion? I asked a friend of a friend; and while he made it clear that I needed to have a strong Ignite up, his explanation of how to tell whether I had a strong Ignite or a weak one confused the hell out of me. I've installed the CombustionHelper add-on, but even that's taking me some getting used to (what shade of green am I waiting for?) and sometimes ends up distracting me from the raid mechanics.

The fire spec would be a lot more usable if all Ignites were created equal. Instead of dealing 13/26/40% of the specific crit that triggered them, they could just deal 13/26/40% of a Fireball crit with an average damage roll.

Then, timing Combustion would just be a question of having all three of our dots up, as long as that was happening often enough. Not only would it make the Blizzard UI adequate for the job, but our spec would be simple enough -- but still not too simple -- to be fun.
Same boat here. Basically if Combustionhelper goes green I try to hit Combustion immeditately.

Would appreciate feedback from Combustion savvy sorts.
Pyro is a very minor dot. If you want to get consistent Combustions with the current state of ignite, you need to just keep LB refreshed and the second you see a large fireball crit (preferably a crit while your trinket procs are goinig), hit Combustion.
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How do you determine a good Threshold to put into Combustionhelper and did you just type in 12000 and hit OK?
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How do I check if numbers are enabled .. what numbers?
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I've been trying to use combustion helper too and it's nearly pointless. I use the macro to stop casting and then to cast combustion. I set the threshold to 12000 which I assume is what makes it turn green since if you set it to 0 it stays green. The problem is that even at 12k that it reports I still managed to combust like 1200 lol.
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I think this must have already been done for me. I don't see any check box that says "enable numbers" but all the "trackers" are enabled.

Threshold is unchecked by default with no numbers in it. Is that what you mean? I checked it and filled in 12000.

I did a few tests with a 12000 threshold and getting a better feel for how the Combustionhelper can be used to fire off at those high numbers.

Atimos, a big thanks.
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