During your videos I have a feeling, that I am a student in some sort of Kirin Tor's Mage Academy. So indepth stuff, which i probably wouldn't know, still munching my hot streak procs😄Thank you for all of your work!
Thank you crateria for all your work. Loved the arcane mage video and now i cant wait to watch this one entirely. Love the details, depth and knowledge behind these vids! Liked and subscribed :)
Edit (28 April): Blizzard broke "Pyro Fake Queue" weakaura by blocking off one of the commands it uses. We're forced to use "Pyroblast Anti Queue" weakaura now instead wago.io/uwQGAy7HM Edit: Also be sure to check out my "ffb double dips" video so you understand something we didn't know about FFB when this guide was made, which changes the hit "requirement" of FFB to between 8-11% due to frostfire bolt double dipping from the precision talent. Recommend simming to find optimal gear for your FFB set, as optimal could mean only 8%. Edit (Jan 13): Flame caps will soon share CD with potion so ignore them. Do not use. ruclips.net/video/QsTMm06bSSA/видео.html You do NOT need Improved Fireball as FFB spec. This was a stupid mistake on my part, missed it while quick recording and only changing the TTW spec over to frost. Forgot to also change out imp fireball. The talent spec links in the description are correct tho.
@@theoomphz depends on the fight and only if you're actually spending GCDs in that fight to mitigate dmg, if you use one of the wards on the fight then yeah feel free
great catch on the iRO music! Was playing it on stream the other night too :) great music from Soundtemp. The music from Tree of Savior is also really great
omg this is great, I've been playing fire because it's so much more fun than arcane and with my gear it's starting to do similar damage..and waaay more trash damage. BUT I had a few mechanic questions I was trying to figure out and you touched on it all. Thanks!
Just wanna say man, I love the effort you put into mage. Thank you very much for this guide. I thought I would be up to speed with mage since I started in Vanilla classic and was gettting 99s already, but you're constantly teaching me more. Love your work brother!
Thank you Crateria, this information has been very helpful and your personal opinions add more depth to practical issues. Keep up the great work and fireballs all day!
Did the munching weak aura and normally i was in top 5 in our raid team, but after that weak aura i topped meters on pretty much every boss thanku thanku
Thank you so much Crateria for this guide, since is my first time ever rolling a mage in like 8 years of WoW (and I think WOTLK ain't the most class beginner friendly exp imo). Keep up the good work mate 💯
Playing FFB a while now Usually i go by 3+ Targets -> LB > Cone of Frost > DB > FS R9 > BW > FS R8 > (By now you should have your first LB proc) PB your procs > LB > Blizzard. Doing some good damage. Edit: I'm not applying LB to more than 5-6 Targets. Feels like loosing tons of DPS there but could be wrong. Not to common for me to have 6 targets living longer than 12 secs.
Question : Do you use a stop casting macro to stop a fireball when a hot streak pyro triggers, or do you always finish the fireball cast, before using the hot streak, with the ignite munch weakaura macro?
There's an addon I found on CurseForge that I've found to be quite handy. "SpellActivationOverlay" uses the visual cues we received in Cataclysm whenever a proc for one of our abilities happens. I know for certain it works for Arcane & Frost along with all other classes with proc abilities. I imagine it would also work for Fire.
Hi Crateria. Thanks for a fine guide :) Just one question, and sorry if its a silly one, but when I am using pyro with the WA you have in your description, it the comes with a warning, so is this wa safe to use or am I going to loos all my stuff? :D
Something that would be worth noting when going for the single target TTW spec is if range could be of importance. In most cases you will get away by not running it, but I can think of a few encounters that may cause problems in the future based on positioning. A few examples are Hodir where the buffs can be placed in a position that is not ideal for a given range; Malygos for the add phase, and likely the most important one being the Valkyries during Heroic Lich King. It is not implausible that we may end up not needing it for these encounters, but just figured it was worth mentioning as a need to adjust is plausible.
What addons do you use to get your spell timers on screen? LB, Scorch etc... and also the spell timers above the target? Thanks for all the great work.
Check the pins in weakauras channel in my discord for those which are all weakauras, however they may need to be updated so if they seem out of date check back tomorrow and I'll try and update them tonight
Amazing in depth guide as usual, i personally think the range talent for fire is underestimated, the amount of times you may need to move because the tanks slightly pull things away or adds spawn a but too far away i think its such a nice talent to pick up. But when you are experienced in the raid and you know all the positioning then probably go without
Trying our fire spec this week! Was looking at you’re chart because you said to use combustion when dying curse procs but how come on the first big cd usage u used it before dying curse proc? :) wanted to make sure I’m understanding it correctly
for the AOE specs, is it worth considering taking the second point in fire starter? always a bummer on the rare occasion you go 0-2 on the procs. thanks, great video. recently switched from arcane on this advice and loving the AOE on trash.
You can and it has its use but it's hard to give up other points for it. Also now that we're out of Naxx there just isn't much of a need for firestarter. Min/maxing trash in Ulduar doesn't really matter.
I have one question thou. Do you clip your fb with lb? Let's say u cast fb hot steak proc, then what u do? Do you refresh lb and lose 1 sec from global cooldown or you use fb lb even if it delays the lb?
Amazing job. TTW is fantastic for later phases, now is time for some FFB fun 😁. Like you said Arcane is great, however Fire is much more fun. Do you play retail and what is your statement for mage in Dragonflight. Looks so weak to me.
@@Crateria Yes i understand that. I see that i was perhaps a bit unclear. In freezing, i ment it crashes my game so i have to terminate the prosess and restart it :)
@@roerland1 have not had that issue, try updating weakauras if it isn't updated to see if that helps. Can always use the /cqs macro in my munching video if the weakaura method doesnt' work
Amazing content! I'm almost phase 1 bis gear and I switch between ttw and arcane depending on i Want to play! Fire gives me a smile and love the specc even if it doesnt max my dps on bosses as arcane! But now im just focusing on the transition to ulduar! Im getting ready for both specc but my dkp is low 😁 Best regards from sweden, gehennas!
@@Crateria Speaking on the event, back during KT a warlock used the Horseman's sword to summon pumpkins to be targets for Thaladras. we also used Thornling Seeds for vash along w the pumpkin sword. do you think the sword will hold any value for progression?
Hey mate :) Im a fresh 80 Mage and I love it! I have been watching your fire mage guide around 50times 😅 I used this video as soundbook for work travels Im in love with the Fire/ttw Aoe spec Tho my gear is only 3k gs, I'm always topping the meters in heroics. (Iknow heroics are for noobs) Im thinking about getting some more gear when I get home from travel and then try out Naxx, EOE and OS. Even tho the ttw spec is amazing, would you personally go FFB Aoe spec if you were fresh lvl 80? Im tailor and have made all the hit pieces and I also bought BOE hitgear, but its hard to reach hitcap while maintaining a healthy Crit/SP/Hast pool. Stay awsome!
prob. a dumb question but where can i see your macro break down on which ones you use for each class your break downs are really good and easy to follow
ffb talents are wrong from my pov, you should have 2 points on improved fireblast since and 3 points on incineration, since u are not going to fireball at all.
Yeah that was a mistake, I def know better but in a hurry I quick copy pasted ttw spec and only changed aecane talents to frost talents and forgot to change imp fireball and also mention that in the video.
Hot Streak: Any time you score 2 non-periodic spell criticals in a row using Fireball, Fire Blast, Scorch, Living Bomb, or Frostfire Bolt, you have a 100% chance the next Pyroblast spell cast within 10 seconds will be instant cast. This means that every-so-often you get to cast an instant Pyroblast. The term "proc" simply means a "procedure" triggered by some condition; in this case the procedure (proc) is the ability to instant cast a single Pyroblast within 10 seconds and the trigger is two critical strikes in a row caused by Fireball, Fire Blast, Scorch, Living Bomb, or Frostfire Bolt.
Hey thanks a lot for the video, really helpful! Just a question, on the FFB talents, why would you choose 'Improved Fireball' in the fire talents if we are not using Fireball at all? Would it not make more sense to take 2/2 and 3/3 from the left? Thank you :)
Imp Fireball isnt needed. Talent spec links in the description are correct but unfortunately I missed that when making the video. Copy pasted ttw spec and only changed frost tree quick when recording. RIP
@@Crateria Thanks a lot for your correction, I was a bit confused at the beginning. I'm swapping for FFB for first time and I think I'll go for the AOE spec with Blast Wave and Dragon's Breath. On HCs with small group of mobs, would you get closer to the tank to do your rotation of BW-FE9-DB-FE8 or simply drop a few Living Bombs and keep shooting your main spells? Thank you again, discovering your channel was the best thing I could do for my mage, really apreciate your videos :)
@crateria hello and thanks for video, i'm french , it's hard to understand all but have one question, when u delay Pyroblast with macro after Fireball, why you talk about TTW, he works with ignite or i misstake something? thanks
true it's something I'll toss into an Ulduar guide that once we go fire and get to longer fights with lengthy execute phases that we need to start scorching once it falls off and we're in execute
Frost is great for leveling, just respec to FFB once you're at lvl 80 and raid with that until you get hit gear for fire ttw, and then I recommend fire ttw
hey mate thanks great work, I am new to fire mage but look for an addon or so to show me the instant procs better on screen , any help? well done keep going!
merfin equipped items, type !weakauras in my twitch chat and click the general pastebin, or join my discord and check pins in weakauras channel and click general pastebin
I ve noticed on your stat sheet that your mage features a 19.x% crit chance and I simply dont understand how you ever gonna reach the "70-80% crit chance for raiding" featured in various raid guides with that baseline? Yeah like buffs and all will obviously enhance that but still....could somebody break it down for me`? I always assumed I d have to sacrifice haste in order to get my crit up.
1:05:00 are you sure PI doesn't stack with BL? I thought it was only AP that it didn't work with. I see it constantly being used during BL, do you get the buff but it doesn't give you any haste?
I should've specified that what I meant was that you don't benefit from both in terms of haste. You can have both heroism and PI active, and you do still get the mana reduction benefit from PI, but you don't get the haste of PI.
Yeah this is one thing I missed but is also something I didnt want to maoe too complicated for ppl and I will release a 2nd video with an update on advanced things as ulduar gets closer. Ideally you want LB refreshed right before combustion, but prematurely refreshing to avoid the explosion consuming a combustion crit is too much of a dps loss. To me its best to focus on procs but ideally if LB will explode soon and your procs have enough duration then yes you should wait to cast combustion until after you refresh LB.
Hello, i dont know if You still answer but is being troll necesary? i hate how the trolls look and would prefer to be a blood elf, is that a massive loss?
@@Crateria Ok, I'm unsure how to verify whether they're the WotLK version or not but the boots I'm using have 41 armor and I'm In Utgarde Keep doing the farm at the end of the video. So RE: re-enchanting etc. I guess you just have to keep buying enchants for them, seems a bit risky using them if they can just blow up on you sometimes, or is that just a risk you take?
Cool weakaura but tbh i dont think i could play wrath the rest of the xpac with microstutter using it, hopefully CQS isnt much of a loss vs using the weakaura
Isn't cqs the same as this weak aura except you get the delay everytime you cast pyro? From what I understand this WA will only delay your pyro when you are casting fireball before instant pyro so there is absolutely no reason to not use this WA over simple cqs macro. I'm not sure if my writing is too confusing or not so tl;dr WA>cqs macro
Thanks for the guide, I got a queston, I am spell hitcapped and almost all of my spellcasts get resisted by a small margin, for instance, Pyroblast crit 21K gets 1.4K resisted. I have full 400/400 on all weps and 399/400 in unarmed. how do I fix it?
Partial resists are just part of the game for non-binary spells unfortunately and you can't get rid of them. Make sure your warlock is putting up Curse of Elements and that's about as good as you can do.
These are by far the best mage videos on YT
During your videos I have a feeling, that I am a student in some sort of Kirin Tor's Mage Academy. So indepth stuff, which i probably wouldn't know, still munching my hot streak procs😄Thank you for all of your work!
Just got back to fire mage, spent all of original WOTLK playing a mage. Your guide is soooooo complete, I absolutely love it. Thank you!! ❤
Best mage big brain out there.
Thank you crateria for all your work. Loved the arcane mage video and now i cant wait to watch this one entirely. Love the details, depth and knowledge behind these vids! Liked and subscribed :)
Hey! I’ve been waiting for this. Super excited
wow i cant believe i havent found this channel until now. insanely high quality. great work, easy sub
Yai! Been patiently waiting for this one! Probably gonna watch it 4 times to soak up everything xD
Thank you so much for going above and beyond with all the details!
Edit (28 April): Blizzard broke "Pyro Fake Queue" weakaura by blocking off one of the commands it uses. We're forced to use "Pyroblast Anti Queue" weakaura now instead wago.io/uwQGAy7HM
Edit: Also be sure to check out my "ffb double dips" video so you understand something we didn't know about FFB when this guide was made, which changes the hit "requirement" of FFB to between 8-11% due to frostfire bolt double dipping from the precision talent. Recommend simming to find optimal gear for your FFB set, as optimal could mean only 8%.
Edit (Jan 13): Flame caps will soon share CD with potion so ignore them. Do not use. ruclips.net/video/QsTMm06bSSA/видео.html
You do NOT need Improved Fireball as FFB spec. This was a stupid mistake on my part, missed it while quick recording and only changing the TTW spec over to frost. Forgot to also change out imp fireball. The talent spec links in the description are correct tho.
You also doesn't need blast wave glyph on ST spec, instead fire/frost ward? Which one you recommend? If it's even matter in a single encounter...
@@theoomphz depends on the fight and only if you're actually spending GCDs in that fight to mitigate dmg, if you use one of the wards on the fight then yeah feel free
Description is also wrong :) you are missing 1 point into Master of Elements
This is amazing!!!!!! Thank you so much. Can't wait to play Fire. 🔥
Huge 7:30am my boy be working !! Keep up the good work
Diablo 1 music in the background.... you got a sub just for that alone, great guide aswell!
Dude ... This guide is gold, thanks for the amazing work ! (+ the tristram soundtrack at start was perfect ^^)
Just finished finished lvling my mage alt, probably going FFB to start just because I don't want to play arcane. Really appreciate the video.
great video. and music too. Ragnarok online BGM 28:36
great catch on the iRO music! Was playing it on stream the other night too :) great music from Soundtemp. The music from Tree of Savior is also really great
it's like this man knew I just got dying curse to get the hit and going fire next week to have fun/play test
I love your videos Crateria. You're a Mage legend.
Yesssss!! I’ve been waiting for this! I loved your arcane mage guide. Literally changed my DPS from bottom tier to top 5!
omg this is great, I've been playing fire because it's so much more fun than arcane and with my gear it's starting to do similar damage..and waaay more trash damage. BUT I had a few mechanic questions I was trying to figure out and you touched on it all. Thanks!
Just wanna say man, I love the effort you put into mage. Thank you very much for this guide. I thought I would be up to speed with mage since I started in Vanilla classic and was gettting 99s already, but you're constantly teaching me more. Love your work brother!
Thank you Crateria, this information has been very helpful and your personal opinions add more depth to practical issues. Keep up the great work and fireballs all day!
Been leveling a mage as an alt, never played one before. This guide kicks ass! Thanks!
Crateria da goat. Great video, covers every morsel of detail.
Could you please do a video going over your UI whenever you get that situated?
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Such a great video (again). Looking forward to going fire in later phases!
Great video Crateria! I really appreciate the time and effort you spend in putting these guides together.
Did the munching weak aura and normally i was in top 5 in our raid team, but after that weak aura i topped meters on pretty much every boss thanku thanku
I just started playing my first character on WoW as mage this week, thank you for these vids :D. Can’t wait for a frost one :O.
I managed to pull off rank 1 fire mage on patch 25 this reset using simple cqs macro. With this WA I expect to improve even more ;) thanks a lot!
How much dps was your rank 1 on patch
Awesome guide, thanks man!
Been waiting for this one, thanks again love your work
Amazing guide! Lord Commander
Thank you so much Crateria for this guide, since is my first time ever rolling a mage in like 8 years of WoW (and I think WOTLK ain't the most class beginner friendly exp imo). Keep up the good work mate 💯
Love the shirt and your videos. Next year LeClerc/Sainz will take Ferrari to the promise land.
Playing FFB a while now Usually i go by 3+ Targets -> LB > Cone of Frost > DB > FS R9 > BW > FS R8 > (By now you should have your first LB proc) PB your procs > LB > Blizzard. Doing some good damage.
Edit: I'm not applying LB to more than 5-6 Targets. Feels like loosing tons of DPS there but could be wrong. Not to common for me to have 6 targets living longer than 12 secs.
Question : Do you use a stop casting macro to stop a fireball when a hot streak pyro triggers, or do you always finish the fireball cast, before using the hot streak, with the ignite munch weakaura macro?
I finish my cast and then drop the pyro right after
There's an addon I found on CurseForge that I've found to be quite handy. "SpellActivationOverlay" uses the visual cues we received in Cataclysm whenever a proc for one of our abilities happens. I know for certain it works for Arcane & Frost along with all other classes with proc abilities. I imagine it would also work for Fire.
Why are you using frostfire bolt as you main spell? Are you using a frost fire build here? the 2 builds you have posted, is that frostfire builds?
i am currently ffb when playing fire on live
Thanks for another high quality video!
Hi Crateria. Thanks for a fine guide :) Just one question, and sorry if its a silly one, but when I am using pyro with the WA you have in your description, it the comes with a warning, so is this wa safe to use or am I going to loos all my stuff? :D
Something that would be worth noting when going for the single target TTW spec is if range could be of importance. In most cases you will get away by not running it, but I can think of a few encounters that may cause problems in the future based on positioning. A few examples are Hodir where the buffs can be placed in a position that is not ideal for a given range; Malygos for the add phase, and likely the most important one being the Valkyries during Heroic Lich King. It is not implausible that we may end up not needing it for these encounters, but just figured it was worth mentioning as a need to adjust is plausible.
right they're flex points, up to the person and their personal preference. I always prefer having range.
Your guides kick ass man thank you!
What addons do you use to get your spell timers on screen? LB, Scorch etc... and also the spell timers above the target? Thanks for all the great work.
Check the pins in weakauras channel in my discord for those which are all weakauras, however they may need to be updated so if they seem out of date check back tomorrow and I'll try and update them tonight
Timers above the nameplates is addon Threat Plates
Cool video, your arcane video helped me alot, i was able to get 97.7 best avg parse in phase 1
Amazing in depth guide as usual, i personally think the range talent for fire is underestimated, the amount of times you may need to move because the tanks slightly pull things away or adds spawn a but too far away i think its such a nice talent to pick up. But when you are experienced in the raid and you know all the positioning then probably go without
I also always pick up range for both arcane and fire. The flex points are personal preference.
Trying our fire spec this week! Was looking at you’re chart because you said to use combustion when dying curse procs but how come on the first big cd usage u used it before dying curse proc? :) wanted to make sure I’m understanding it correctly
for the AOE specs, is it worth considering taking the second point in fire starter? always a bummer on the rare occasion you go 0-2 on the procs. thanks, great video. recently switched from arcane on this advice and loving the AOE on trash.
You can and it has its use but it's hard to give up other points for it. Also now that we're out of Naxx there just isn't much of a need for firestarter. Min/maxing trash in Ulduar doesn't really matter.
You’re a beast! Thank you for delivering
I have one question thou. Do you clip your fb with lb? Let's say u cast fb hot steak proc, then what u do? Do you refresh lb and lose 1 sec from global cooldown or you use fb lb even if it delays the lb?
Love the video and I just wanna ask, is there an add-on list that you use that we can check out for ourselves?
yup head to my discord and check out the pins in the addons channel, discord.gg/crateria
Are you using graphics mods? Why does your game look soo gooood 👍
Amazing job. TTW is fantastic for later phases, now is time for some FFB fun 😁. Like you said Arcane is great, however Fire is much more fun. Do you play retail and what is your statement for mage in Dragonflight. Looks so weak to me.
unfortunately haven't played retail since MoP so can't comment, hopefully blizzard turns out something good but yeah up in the air for sure (no pun)
Thx for another great video. I have tried that WA/Macro to prevent ignite munching, but it freezes my game. You had 0 issues with it?
like I said it does that to add the stutter
@@Crateria Yes i understand that. I see that i was perhaps a bit unclear. In freezing, i ment it crashes my game so i have to terminate the prosess and restart it :)
@@roerland1 have not had that issue, try updating weakauras if it isn't updated to see if that helps. Can always use the /cqs macro in my munching video if the weakaura method doesnt' work
@@Crateria I've switched back to the /cqs macro cause of this. Thanks for the response.
Nice guide man keep doing that
Great guide as always, helped me a lot. Thanks for your efforts!
P.S. Good luck in Ulduar 🤞
Thank you so much, awesome info. Happy new year :)
I hit straight away....that music....win
Love the Diablo theme music
Thank you very mach, Crateria!
Amazing content! I'm almost phase 1 bis gear and I switch between ttw and arcane depending on i Want to play!
Fire gives me a smile and love the specc even if it doesnt max my dps on bosses as arcane! But now im just focusing on the transition to ulduar! Im getting ready for both specc but my dkp is low 😁
Best regards from sweden, gehennas!
one thing id recommend instead of the zanza buff is doing the headless horseman attempt getting the tricky treats and using a few of those for the mms
yup could def use those during event but event will also end in next few days
@@Crateria Speaking on the event, back during KT a warlock used the Horseman's sword to summon pumpkins to be targets for Thaladras. we also used Thornling Seeds for vash along w the pumpkin sword. do you think the sword will hold any value for progression?
@@gian8699 good call they could possibly have that value in the future, atm I cant think of anything where its critical but can def see it happening
Thanks for the info, will definitely get those weak auras!
What great vid! Thnx for your hard work - subbed
Hey mate :) Im a fresh 80 Mage and I love it! I have been watching your fire mage guide around 50times 😅
I used this video as soundbook for work travels
Im in love with the Fire/ttw Aoe spec
Tho my gear is only 3k gs, I'm always topping the meters in heroics.
(Iknow heroics are for noobs)
Im thinking about getting some more gear when I get home from travel and then try out Naxx, EOE and OS.
Even tho the ttw spec is amazing, would you personally go FFB Aoe spec if you were fresh lvl 80?
Im tailor and have made all the hit pieces and I also bought BOE hitgear, but its hard to reach hitcap while maintaining a healthy Crit/SP/Hast pool.
Stay awsome!
if you're gonna go fire on a fresh 80 then yes go ffb aoe, and prob stay ffb until at p1 bis or very close to it
@@Crateria thank you for your time mr! I will follow your advice, and will hopefully enjoy the shit out of the ffb spec.
@@NorwayLars you will its a great spec, cheers
Great work buddy. Is this working till now? Or is it an old guide? You did great work!
still working
This video has good information because it has Tristram background music.
prob. a dumb question but where can i see your macro break down on which ones you use for each class your break downs are really good and easy to follow
I mainly have macros for mage, if you head to my twitch channel and type !macros it will give you a link to my pastebin with my macros
@@Crateria Awesome thank you figured with your break down you got them wrote done somewhere with your guide im playing mage better than ever have.
Hey great guide I love it, Im wondering whats the addon showing debuffs over the nameplate? Thanks
head to my twitch and type !weakauras its in the general pastebin "debuffs over nameplates"
@@Crateria Thanks for quick answer!! Already on Ulduar testing it out. Love your content! Cheers
holy faq the amount of work
ffb talents are wrong from my pov, you should have 2 points on improved fireblast since and 3 points on incineration, since u are not going to fireball at all.
Agree
Yeah that was a mistake, I def know better but in a hurry I quick copy pasted ttw spec and only changed aecane talents to frost talents and forgot to change imp fireball and also mention that in the video.
I'm really trying to understand the mechanics of a Fire Mage, so much involved, What is a Hotstreak proc?
Hot Streak: Any time you score 2 non-periodic spell criticals in a row using Fireball, Fire Blast, Scorch, Living Bomb, or Frostfire Bolt, you have a 100% chance the next Pyroblast spell cast within 10 seconds will be instant cast.
This means that every-so-often you get to cast an instant Pyroblast. The term "proc" simply means a "procedure" triggered by some condition; in this case the procedure (proc) is the ability to instant cast a single Pyroblast within 10 seconds and the trigger is two critical strikes in a row caused by Fireball, Fire Blast, Scorch, Living Bomb, or Frostfire Bolt.
If you're only casting Frostfire Bolt, is it better to skip Improved Fireball in the talent tree?
yes
Im luckily in a guild that allows me to play fire and i fucking love it
Hey thanks a lot for the video, really helpful! Just a question, on the FFB talents, why would you choose 'Improved Fireball' in the fire talents if we are not using Fireball at all? Would it not make more sense to take 2/2 and 3/3 from the left? Thank you :)
Imp Fireball isnt needed. Talent spec links in the description are correct but unfortunately I missed that when making the video. Copy pasted ttw spec and only changed frost tree quick when recording. RIP
@@Crateria Thanks a lot for your correction, I was a bit confused at the beginning. I'm swapping for FFB for first time and I think I'll go for the AOE spec with Blast Wave and Dragon's Breath. On HCs with small group of mobs, would you get closer to the tank to do your rotation of BW-FE9-DB-FE8 or simply drop a few Living Bombs and keep shooting your main spells? Thank you again, discovering your channel was the best thing I could do for my mage, really apreciate your videos :)
@@Dablast230 for heroics i living bomb to help pull or as they come in and then do firestarter sequence, unless its only 2 mobs
@crateria hello and thanks for video, i'm french , it's hard to understand all but have one question, when u delay Pyroblast with macro after Fireball, why you talk about TTW, he works with ignite or i misstake something? thanks
Not sure what you're asking but ffb travels at different speed than pyroblast so the macro is only need with fireball
How do i get my action bars to look and stack like yours? Im new to wow and still learning everything. Is it an addon?
you have the crit buff from warlocks, till execute phase. we don't refresh isb, it's dps loss.
true it's something I'll toss into an Ulduar guide that once we go fire and get to longer fights with lengthy execute phases that we need to start scorching once it falls off and we're in execute
I swore back Fire Blast spread dots in WOTLK. When was this feature implemented?
As a noob who is currently lv 62 mage, what talents or trees should I be going down. I don’t play pvp just pve, currently frost. ?
Frost is great for leveling, just respec to FFB once you're at lvl 80 and raid with that until you get hit gear for fire ttw, and then I recommend fire ttw
Is there a combustion AOE rotation. Or is that only for single target?
Awesome video where can I get the macros at ? Is there a copy / paste
did they fix munching at this point or not yet ?
Objective benefit to playing FFB: FFB is easily the coolest looking spell in WoW history😉
How is ur timer addon called? To see which ability is ready
hey mate thanks great work, I am new to fire mage but look for an addon or so to show me the instant procs better on screen , any help? well done keep going!
check the weakauras section
@Crateria what weakaura do you use to track your trinket/enchant procs?
merfin equipped items, type !weakauras in my twitch chat and click the general pastebin, or join my discord and check pins in weakauras channel and click general pastebin
@@Crateria Thanks! Appreciate all of the hard work you do!
what addon do you recommend for monitoring trinket and lightweave procs?
merfin weakaura
I ve noticed on your stat sheet that your mage features a 19.x% crit chance and I simply dont understand how you ever gonna reach the "70-80% crit chance for raiding" featured in various raid guides with that baseline? Yeah like buffs and all will obviously enhance that but still....could somebody break it down for me`? I always assumed I d have to sacrifice haste in order to get my crit up.
how is he an undead pirate ? ive never seen that before - i cnt believe nobody asked that
great vid though !
1:05:00 are you sure PI doesn't stack with BL? I thought it was only AP that it didn't work with. I see it constantly being used during BL, do you get the buff but it doesn't give you any haste?
I should've specified that what I meant was that you don't benefit from both in terms of haste. You can have both heroism and PI active, and you do still get the mana reduction benefit from PI, but you don't get the haste of PI.
is fireball spec better or FFB?
How should LB be handled inside combustion windows? ie if LB is to expire before combustion has been consumed - should it be refreshed prematurely?
Yeah this is one thing I missed but is also something I didnt want to maoe too complicated for ppl and I will release a 2nd video with an update on advanced things as ulduar gets closer. Ideally you want LB refreshed right before combustion, but prematurely refreshing to avoid the explosion consuming a combustion crit is too much of a dps loss. To me its best to focus on procs but ideally if LB will explode soon and your procs have enough duration then yes you should wait to cast combustion until after you refresh LB.
Hello, i dont know if You still answer but is being troll necesary? i hate how the trolls look and would prefer to be a blood elf, is that a massive loss?
It's pretty significant, yes. I hate how trolls look as well so it's up to you how much you care about your character's strength.
Hello sir!
So with those rocket boots, do they break?
and if so do you just re-enchant a new pair each time they do?
wotlk rocket boots don't break and inside of raid they never fail
@@Crateria Awesome!
really appreciate the reply sir, all the resources you've put out have helped me so much since i've started playing.
much love
@@Crateria my boots just blew up mid pull :(
*Can send clip if needed
@@Frank_UK_was_taken you're either not using wotlk boots or you weren't in raid instance
@@Crateria
Ok, I'm unsure how to verify whether they're the WotLK version or not
but the boots I'm using have 41 armor and I'm In Utgarde Keep doing the farm at the end of the video.
So RE: re-enchanting etc.
I guess you just have to keep buying enchants for them, seems a bit risky using them if they can just blow up on you sometimes, or is that just a risk you take?
Cool weakaura but tbh i dont think i could play wrath the rest of the xpac with microstutter using it, hopefully CQS isnt much of a loss vs using the weakaura
Isn't cqs the same as this weak aura except you get the delay everytime you cast pyro? From what I understand this WA will only delay your pyro when you are casting fireball before instant pyro so there is absolutely no reason to not use this WA over simple cqs macro. I'm not sure if my writing is too confusing or not so tl;dr WA>cqs macro
@@Avelek1 correct, but the way the WA actually stutters your game is I think what he means, which does take some getting used to
hey dude great video! Do you know how to add the pyro munching macro into my other macros? I just tried putting it in but the delay does not work T-T
hmmm, might not work with other macro items, would have to ask exo
@@Crateria ahh kk I will ask around
Thanks for the guide, I got a queston, I am spell hitcapped and almost all of my spellcasts get resisted by a small margin, for instance, Pyroblast crit 21K gets 1.4K resisted. I have full 400/400 on all weps and 399/400 in unarmed. how do I fix it?
Partial resists are just part of the game for non-binary spells unfortunately and you can't get rid of them. Make sure your warlock is putting up Curse of Elements and that's about as good as you can do.
Hey man, great video. Can you please link weak auras for your trinkets, i notice that they tracking icd also.
check the pins in my weakauras channel in my discord
Thank you so much for this video
Commenting because your work is absolutely amazing I wish I could get this for warlock too. I hope your channel does well keep it up 🙌🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
ty for the kind words, be sure to check out crix for warlock!