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.

Post from: WOW Obsessed

Molten Armor now causes 170 Fire damage when hit for all ranks (Up from 75/130/170) and also increases your critical strike rating by 25% of your spirit.

Glyph of Molten Armor — Your Molten Armor grants an additional 15% of your spirit as critical strike rating. (Old – Your Molten Armor spell grants an additional 2% critical strike chance.)

mage casts molten armor

So while mages finally have use for some of that spirit that comes with their gear, it’s probably not the kind of change they wanted. The most obviously affected are those people who don’t really stack spirit since their crit chance will go down when using Molten Armor compared to what it currently is in live. This includes those people who do a lot of PvP since PvP gear doesn’t have a lot of spirirt and crit is pretty important in PvP. In PvE, it seems like this is also a problem since mages will be forced to stack a lot of spirit just to match the crit they currently have.

I think this would have been a nice idea if spirit just added to the existing 3% crit chance molten armor gives, not replace it. After all the idea was just supposed to give a bonus for having the spirit and not to force mages to stack it.

Post from: WOW Obsessed