Right after popping cooldowns on a burn phase or do you wait later to get AM procs?
Right after popping cooldowns on a burn phase or do you wait later to get AM procs?
I usually open with a pre pot, then flame orb off the bat. a lot of people will tell you to use it for conserve phase, but I never have an issue with am procs, or even if I do, ab isn't as big a dmg loss as not using flame orb on cd
Usually I pop Flame Orb at the beginning of the encounter, after it's done with it's CD, I pop it again, and again, until the encounters over.
After burn phase once evocated I AB back down to 80% ish and pop orb and AM chain back up (updated magemanabar has this shown - helps a ton!). Personally I find the loss of a global before burn phase isn't worth it.
The only exception would be if your regen were so horrible (due to your gear) that you require the AM procs to keep your mana up.
Of course, I have no idea what level of regen that would be (I typically cast 5-7 AB in a row before clearing the stack by whatever means during my conservation stage).
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Use after prepot, before tank pull and before burn phase, you'll have it up a few secs after evocate and can do a mini burn phase and regen with am procs.
Pre-Pot @ 3 on countdown, drink for 3 seconds: ABx2 - Flame Orb, ABx2 - "Lulz" macro. The FO between the AB's gives it time to travel before popping all my other CD's. Popping your macro and then using Flame Orb will rob your Arcane Power/Berserking/other CD's of a GCD.
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Is flame orb really that useful of a skill? I hardly pop it at all, didn't see it to be a big issue if i didn't, and even if i did, could only be a minimum of 100 dps or so as weak as the dmg. Takes less time to get off an AB to waste global on it. Though i could just be bad and not feel it helps. Even as fire i find myself popping very seldom, it just doesn't seem that worth it.
-Troll mage with herb so have berserking/MI on macro with AP and herbs buff along side it.
If i do pop it, should it be as Heilige proclaimed? It seems useful that way, can't test it out at the moment though.
Highest damage per effective time spell, last I checked. Using it is pretty much a no-brainer.
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Twice in conserve phases to ensure AM procs, I don't during burn phases
Doesn't FO scale dynamically with your procs? I thought I read in EJ forums that it did, so I usually open with it to help have everything procced for my burn phase - and to let it benefit from my burn phase buffs without wasting a GCD. Then it's also ready again right after evocating.