September 21, 2008, 03:20 PM
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Re: Casting Rotation for 3.0.2
If you're talking about destruction, I've been doing a bit of testing over the last couple of days on the dummies (in Theramore of course, the ones in cities are all 80 now >.>) and thus far the rotation I like the most is essentially:
Opening with Imp autoattack -> Curse -> Chaos Bolt -> Corruption -> Immolate -> spamming Incinerate until Chaos Bolt comes off cooldown -> Chaos Bolt -> Corruption -> Immolate and repeating, refreshing Corruption and Immolate when neccessary, turning the Imp off to regen his mana whenever he's close to going oom and using Chaos Bolt whenever it's availible.
I was doing this with a build something along the lines of: http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warl...00000000000000
I've tried other rotations that involve using both SB and Incinerate (one rotation I tried was along the lines of Immolate -> Incinerate -> Conflag -> SB * 3, both with Corruption kept up and without), mixing Conflag into my current favorite rotation (tried using it before Immolate expired and every time it came off cooldown), and this one seems to be the least awkward to play, it also seems to end up with the most DPS on average after 5 minutes of nuking, it also seems the most mana efficient.
I've been travelling back and forth between IF and Theramore multiple times a day and been standing there hitting dummies for hours a day so I've got a feel for every possible rotation and consistantly this one seems to turn out the best in terms of DPS, mana efficiency and ease of play. It's not the most stable rotation as it's constantly changing due to differences in cooldowns and the durations of Immolate/Corruption, but despite this it seems to feel smoother than others to play. You make the most of your Molten Core procs with this build too, as it'll only be proccing from Corruption and all other damage you are dealing is fire based.
You can try adding Conflag/Backdraft into the rotation if you like but it's almost certainly a DPS loss, makes you burn your mana faster and doesn't really net you any extra DPS as the damage lost by using Conflag isn't really made up for by Backdraft from what I've observed.
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