Originally Posted by
Keltas
I meant 110 too, with full artifact.
Crashing Storms is the only artifact trait for it, which is definitely amazing for AoE and will push it past FoA, but single target I can't see it winning out.
You have to use a GCD on a lower damage spell, the traits adds a little, but not enough to make it a LL in damage. (you then lose out on LL traits, which are more powerful), and then get 6 ticks over 6 seconds. FoA is just always on at high mastery, and ticks higher than CL does, without using that global to do so.
At 60-80% mastery (easy in raid gear) and Tempest, you'll be spamming SS so much that you barely have time to hit CL on cooldown. Then the gold trait for LL is 5 RPPM, which means those few GCDS you have open would definitely be well spent on a LL.
Obviously the math could and may very well prove me wrong, I'm just saying it "feels" a lot better not having to try to keep CL on cooldown at high mastery. If you like juggling a lot of cooldowns, then you may like the CL talent more. That's the beauty of the new talent system, we both can play the way we enjoy more, and they are pretty close to each other in usefulness, so either one works.