Do you ever want to Fireblast after reaching high crit rates?

[dromarr]

Back in the day, I played a fire mage. I now play shadow. My understanding with Fire is once you hit TBC and Wrath there are certain points with a high crit rate where it makes sense to Fireblast on every cooldown to keep that ignite stack growing is my understanding. You're mostly spamming fireballs and stacking scorch. Ideally, you have a scorch specific mage, but I find stacks are less likely to fall off if mages are working to maximize their dps as a group and not individual dps.

Is there a crit point say 70% to 80% where it makes sense to fireblast on cooldown just to grow ignite more from that instant crit? Definitely, if having to move for any reason.

Now, if you keep that ignite as large as possible it's my understanding from playing fire in vanilla overall mage dps increases, while individual mage dps decreases. But, one mage might get full credit for starting the ignite stack. If this is the effect of fireblasting on cooldown isn't it best for overall mage dps with TBC and Wrath changes? You definitely do not use it in vanilla as you cannot get enough crit.

[Kul]

What’s wrong with Blizzard?

Frost mage is brought to raid because OK damage and intellect buff.

Both Arcane and fire mage are bottom of the barrel both in raid and M+.

Fire mage is the least played spec.

Not asking for it to be top but buffs are needed. It’s squishy as he’ll too, at least make it do middle dmg?

[Manorwar]

0.1% of parses in mythic raid are from fire mages. Do you really think Blizzard will notice this slightly skewed percentage?

[Zyky]

0.1% of parses in mythic raid are from fire mages. Do you really think Blizzard will notice this slightly skewed percentage?

Not to mention secondaries also have huge diminishing returns, it's just not possible the niche he's talking about

[tufy123]

Vanilla and TBC/Wrath ignites are very different beasts. In vanilla you had one ignite stack for all mages. You wanted one mage that would land the highest crits possible for massive ignite stack and then have the rest roll it - each time the stack would be refreshed, the WHOLE stack would restart ticks, meaning you generated free damage (aka rolling ignites). In TBC, that is no longer the case, on refresh the remaining ignite would get split up accross new chunks and you generated no free damage anymore.