Living Bomb/Hot Streak Change Hotfixed

Blue poster Crygil became the bearer of bad news to the mage community as he posted the announcement of the hotfix to change a Hot Streak mechanic concerning Living Bomb. Hot Streak will only proc off non periodic damage

Living Bomb

and only off Fireball, Fire Blast, Scorch, Living Bomb, or Frostfire Bolt.

Blizzard hit two birds with one stone here, the first being solving the bug concerning the periodic damage from Frostfire Bolt and Fireball being counted towards breaking the Hot Streak. As you know you need two consecutive crits from the spells above to trigeer it. The second is that since Living Bomb can be cast on multiple targets now, the devs thought that the crits from the periodic damage of Living Bomb (Glyph of Living Bomb allows the periodic damage to crit) on multiple targets is overpowered. I guess the only Living Bomb crits that will count towards the Hot Streak is the damage that comes at the end of the spell when it “explodes”.

This change affects both Fire mages and Frostfire mages since they both use Living Bomb and Hot Streak. I’m sure they would rather have the crits from periodic Living Bomb damage count towards the Hot Streak rather than allow Living Bomb to be cast on multiple targets. Well we just have to adapt and move on.