Originally Posted by
fiestatastic
no idea why anyone is telling you to not cast flamestrike. I do 3-5 million dps on trash and consistently do 90%+ on loggable trash bosses, and cast flamestrike all the time.
What is your artifact weapon at? The traits are pretty important and you might be low if you're missing key traits. Definitely change your talents to conflag, incanter's flow (depending on what group you're in, RoP can be better, but for the most part imo it's not worth the cast time, I never use it), alexstraza's fury, and anything but kindling (cinderstorm is ideal but meteor is also fine as just a fire it on cd and forget it so you can focus more on burning adds, tbh I usually use meteor because it's on a longer cd and easier to manage .. however, if I want to tryhard I'd use cinderstorm, I used cinderstorm for skorp and tich progression before they became farm, but the results are nominally better than meteor, and that includes very well placed cinderstorms ... if you aren't good at cinderstorm positioning just do meteor, just don't use kindling, unfortunately it's awful).
On trash even at just a few adds (don't bother to count them, if it's a pack then do this), living bomb on whatever add looks the crappiest and will die the fastest, phoenix flames and immediately fire blast so those cd's start then flamestrike, then dragon's breath, fire blast, flamestrike, don't think about it, all that really matters is that you're always casting and always casting flamestrikes and living bombs on the shortest lived adds. You should barely have to cast fireballs. Honestly, if I find myself without heating up I'll cast scorch for the faster cast time to get heating up then cast phoenix flames or fire blast so that I can flamestrike again.