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A quick question about the shatter combo.
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Kramp
Here's how I think shatter combo works.
Your target is frozen and you cast frost bolt and you quickly throw ice lance after. Since Ice lance is faster than FB, they both hit the target at the same moment ( or close ).
With latency and such, the game consider both spells with +50% crit even if the 1st one hits the target ( and destroy the ice ) a split second before the 2nd.
So, is it possible to create a shatter combo with fire blast if you time it properly ? I know fire blast is less interesting than IL but I am leveling my mage so I don't have IL yet.
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It is possible to shatter combo with just about any spell. The question is "how hard do you want it to be?".
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Achloryn
I thought Shatters were possible because a travel time spell calculates damage and critical strikes the moment it's cast, not the moment it hits the target.
So, tehnically, when you cast Ice Lance (or Brain Freeze Fireball) on a target while the Frostbolt is still mid-air, the spell will see Shatter on the target and calculate a +50% crit chance.
If this is true, then it doesn't matter how far apart the two spells are, as long as the second spell is cast before the first one hits.
This is how I believe it works as well. So, Fire Blast and Ice Lance should both behave exactly the same when it comes to shatter combos.
this is indeed true how it works... however fire blast is a much more mana costly spell for the weak amount of damage it produces, that it's just better overall to go for ice lance over fire blast.
I am, however, now of the opinion that if brain freeze procs then you should definitely shoot that off instead. It's mana free, and it's non-crit averages out to hit harder than a crit ice lance, with the increased chance for crit making it hit much harder. (My crit ice lances go for about 4k, my crit fireballs about 6.5k)
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Achloryn
Now do you think there is a way to make a macro to us Fireball when Brain Freeze has proc'd but Ice Lance all other times?
Doesn't seem like it would be hard.
it would be harder than you think, cause said macro would involve making it decide depending on whether you have the brain freeze aura or not. I don't know how to write macros, but i think that would be very wordy, if it can even be done. I find it's just easier to watch my auras, and have ice lance and fireball right next to each other on my hot keys.
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Achloryn
-huge macro-
i think that's too long for the 255 character max in wow anyway... lol
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