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Originally Posted by Hakasa

Lightweave has literally proc'd off of running for me. doing nothing but running.

Originally Posted by sighmoon

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so for 8 secs I gain 110 sp. If I work life tap into my rotation and cast it every 8 secs providing I have the 4set bonus.

if I miss casting it I lose 45sp til i get the buff back up that is providing I get it back up in 12secs lol

While in Ulduar last night i was going to try this but with improved life its not really possible is it. We only have so much health.

But then I was thinking about something that someone wrote here somewhere.............use rank 1 to activate the buff?

min health decrease every 8 secs to get the buff.

Now my question is how to work into my rotation and is working into my rotation worth the effort?

Can someone plz help me with this?

Originally Posted by dyson

Hi Sighmoon,

Yes, as you correctly hypothesize, Rank 1 will activate the buff too

In fact, you will find that a low rank life tap will be what you use most of the time. Or rather alternate depending on if you need mana or not while also getting the SP boost.

In terms of working it into your rotation, unless you have a lot more spirit or 4/4 valor without losing significant SP gains in Ulduar, I would suggest not trying so hard to work it into rotation because you lose GCD for every tap. To have 100% uptime you lose about a chunk of time every 60 seconds to maintain this.

With that said, in order to generally equal the dps boosts glyph of immolate, activating this once a minute is not really that hard to work in. A lot of fights in Ulduar are movement based and since you don't want to clip Curse of Agony, and it can be inefficient to clip corruption, you may as well boost your SP while moving out of that damaging zone on razor scale, moving to the haste light beam on hodir, running from eye beam on kolgarn, falling from being thrown in the air by flame sear on ignis, running from lightning charge on thorim, etc..etc..

Not to mention that while you run to position yourself for the boss fight pull, you can just low rank life tap right at the start.

In practice, it's not really hard to naturally keep the buff up a lot depending on the fight. Also considering that towards the end of the fight when you are in Execute mode for decimation, this is when you may need your mana back anyway, this is where the life tap buff will have a much higher benefit than forcing it to stay up all the time through the whole fight.

Originally Posted by Dunwich

I think its wonderful. Standard 2717 spellpower, lifetap 2988. A gain of 271, and everytime I tested this the lifetap procs eventually set off my lightweave for an additional 250. Value may go down with T8, but still, this is a good little glyph. Besides, I use Meta, and felguard already; What else is there? Shadow Bolt? Immo? meh.