04-06-2006, 05:40 PM
GenericKen,Apr 6 2006, 08:22 AM Wrote:At lvl 29, the highest arcane explosion does 60 damage. I'm not sure that's worthwhile.
The case for improved flamestrike is that there are very few talents in the game that reduce cooldown, and that the lower you reduce the cooldown, the more each fraction of cooldown reduction counts. In fact, the more points you put into improved fire blast, the greater the % cooldown reduction with each point. It's not quite as dramatic as having NO chance of getting arcane missles interupted, but I was somewhat under the impression that at least 30% of my damage in WSG would be coming from fire blast on the run. 5 points in fireblast reduces the total cooldown by 18.75%, upping the DPS of the spell respectively. That's better than the % improvement 5 points in improved fireball gives (14.29%).
What's the avg HP of an enemy at 29, anyway?
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Dunno about 29, specifically... but I remember I do have a 35 warrior with, at most, 1500 hp, un-twinked. Don't have much experience with the realm of uber-twinked level 29 WSG battles, but I doubt they'd be able to get much higher than that.
The problem with improved fireblast is that the situations in which you'd just chain-cast it tend to be pretty few and far between. And unless you're just throwing a fireblast and standing around waiting for it to come back up again, then you are quite likely to be casting/channeling another spell right as it comes up, or frost novaing, or blinking, or just not in a situation that would need another fireblast. Dropping whatever you're doing to make use of your shorter fireblast cooldown may not exactly be conducive to victory--maybe the longer range scorch or fireball on the distant target is more important, or maybe sheeping that healer would be more important, or just up and leaving to help your flag runner, or intercept an enemy flag runner. And if you don't fireblast within that 1.5 second bonus cooldown, then you might as well be wasting the talent.
With a few points in Burning Soul instead, you could be more effective with all of your other fire spells while under fire--and you will be under fire; mages can be top of the kill first list, part for dying so fast, and part for killing so fast--and you could just throw in another hard to interrupt scorch, or a cone of cold, before fireblasting again.