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Achloryn
first, let me ask a couple things.. how often do you refresh scorch? are you interrupting other casts to fire your hot streaks or refresh scorch/LB? if you are, then stop. never interrupt a cast. wait till scorch is down to about 5s before refreshing. you want to actually cast scorch as little as possible since it's a low damage spell.. you cast it for the buff, not the damage it does. never interrupt a cast for a hot streak proc. that just wastes the GCD you triggered by starting the cast.. you'd be better off finishing the fireball to throw your pyro out.
next, is the main difference between 10m and 25m the absence of a boomkin or shadow priest? that would explain a huge loss in DPS because you're not getting that extra 3% hit rating automatically. without it, your hit rating is at 11%, which is low without misery or IFF. that right there will make a HUGE dps drop.
the next thing i see, is you aren't using glyph of living bomb. 10 man, 25 man, whatever.. you CANNOT pass up that glyph, especially not for glyph of imp. scorch. the DPS increase from that glyph is so ridiculous you'd be better off dropping the glyph of frostfire if you're insistant on keeping imp. scorch glyphed.
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2nd, are you letting living bomb go off, a large portion of its damage is the explosion.
You cannot refresh Living Bomb until it explodes.
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Achloryn
I regyphed for the living bomb, and changed some gems up so my hit rating doesn't suffer. I'm still only at 12% but i guess with gear i will hit the cap. Believe the hit cap with elemental percision is 396 rating or 17% total which makes this spec very gear dependent.
As far as my rotation i usually wait until scorch goes out to put it back on, but will have to do that just before now without improved scorch if i'm right. My question now is how many applications to start the fight. Is one enough because the crit bonus stacks for each application up to five times. I know as the fight progresses that it will stack as i refresh it, so i'm assuming my dps will build during the fight. Especially since hot streak only kicks in after two consecutive crits.
With pyroblast I was interupting the frostfire bolt spell to cast it when hot streak kicked in but i'll stop doing that. I can see how that could hurt my dps.
Thanks for the help. It is much appreciated.
if you're doing heroics, i'd say only one or two apps of scorch is plenty, since bosses will be dropping pretty quick anyway.. if you're in a raid, go ahead and throw all 5 on from the start. Not only does that give you the 5% crit bonus thru the whole fight (as FFB is a very crit reliant spec), it gives you a chance to let the tanks build some good solid threat before going into your nuke phase. Deep fire specs only get 10% threat reduction, so it doesn't always take much to pull off the tanks if you start nuking too soon.. Don't ever let the scorch debuff fall off cause without that scorch glyph, you'd have to reapply it 5 times if it does. Even with the glyph, if you let it fall off you'd be losing that 5% crit on that 1 scorch.. which may not seem like much, but it DOES still proc hot streak, so you could be gimping yourself that way.
next question.. do you raid with a boomkin or shadow priest? If you do -
every time
- then you can afford to drop .97% of your hit rating. it looks to me like you're too focused on set bonuses. feel free to drop one or two of your 16 hit rating gems and replace it with a 19 spell power gem, forget the set bonuses... they usually aren't worth it. (the head slot in particular comes to mind..) also, if you can afford to drop the green gems, there's a purple gem that does spell power and spirit.. i forget exactly what its called, but those are much better, and will still keep your meta active. you have an orange slot in your shoulders that's spell power and hit rating... replace it with a 19 spell power one for sure. that should definitely help.
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