Theralion's Mirror and us?

[Tobbx]

What I have been doing in this situation is cast Mind Blast after the last refresh of dots which would put me in a situation where I'm not going to refresh them again before the Empowered Shadows runs out.

Sequence:

1. Revelation (Theralion's Mirror's proc) procs
2. Mind Blast as soon as possible
3. Refresh dots, cast until Revelation is almost over
4. Mind Blast right before Revelation ends
5. Cast as normal, refresh dots one last time
6. Mind Blast whether the buff is over or not.

Basically I don't care if I over-write ES if I've just refreshed my dots and they won't be down again before the current ES ends.

Would it not be better to drop using mind blast, and redot 1-2 sec before your improved ES actually wear off. It seems like you are loosing some dps here man xD

[spiralout]

What I have been doing in this situation is cast Mind Blast after the last refresh of dots which would put me in a situation where I'm not going to refresh them again before the Empowered Shadows runs out.

Sequence:

1. Revelation (Theralion's Mirror's proc) procs
2. Mind Blast as soon as possible
3. Refresh dots, cast until Revelation is almost over
4. Mind Blast right before Revelation ends
5. Cast as normal, refresh dots one last time
6. Mind Blast whether the buff is over or not.

Basically I don't care if I over-write ES if I've just refreshed my dots and they won't be down again before the current ES ends.

Problem is, you want to refresh your DoTs right before the buffed ES ends. By overriding it with a weaker ES, you basically reduce the time your DoTs are buffed.

Would it not be better to drop using mind blast, and redot 1-2 sec before your improved ES actually wear off. It seems like you are loosing some dps here man xD

The way Kilee does it is the same as I do, which gives two full VTs and DPs with the boosted Emp Shadows buff. If its still debatable whether to refresh VT immediately upon a Volcano 1600 Int proc, depending on VT's time left (we know DP is worth the GCD because of Imp DP), is it better to use another GCD refreshing VT way early to grab another few seconds of the +1926 mastery proc from Mirror when you already are going to have two full durations of it? I guess it comes down to the damage from the extra few ticks of VT, DP and whatever Imp DP gets from the boosted Emp Shadows vs the MBs you missed out on waiting for the time on the Emp Shadows to get low enough to refresh your DoTs that final time and the MFs you lose because of those GCDs. WTB Twintop or Karnor or someone to do the math!

[Solfire]

Well, then we'd go back to the issue of power vs duration (nevermind that this buff isn't even directly casted, since it's an effect off casting MB.)

Ultimately, I foresee Blizzard nerfing this for S.Priests so that we won't be able to extend a Mastery proc like we can now. Their reasoning will be that this current way is too much micro managing (let's not kid ourselves, managing ES procs is by far the hardest part of playing a SPriest this expansion, nearly impossible to maximize it without mods like PA and NTK.)

Managing this proc is the only change we've had to our rotation in forever. :\ I'd be miserable if blizzard took it away from is.