So, does anyone actually know (by know I mean literally know, not just know because X person told him that without any argument) against how many targets it's better to use Flamestrike rather than Pyroblast?
Putting aside all AW traits and talents like flamepatch: Pyroblast does 400% SP damage and Flamestrike does 180% SP damage. So it's better to use Flamestrike against 3 targets or more. Ehm... no, not really. There's Heating Up and Hot Streak that fu**s up everything.
It's problematic to figure out because Pyroblast can crit and thus grant Heating Up or Hotstreak proc while Flamestrike cannot. I've heard many ideas like "3 targets", "5 targets" or even "10 targets".
Also, wondering whether the more crit% chance you got the better Pyroblast becomes compared to Flamestrike, because of Heating Up/HotStreak thing. So for example (really example, random numbers, don't take it seriously):
- it's better to use Flamestrike against 5 targets or more if you have 30% crit
- it's better to use Flamestrike against 7 targets or more if you have 70% crit
Or crit doesn't affect it at all, so no matter how much crit% we have the number against how many targets it's better to Flamestrike is constant?
What's the number, though?