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Master of Flame Rimfire Bug
yperkeimenos
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Hi all,I'm posting this because eventhough it seems that the rim-fire bug is fixed,in mod 3,there is no mention of it at the patch notes. From what I've observed, slotted conduit of ice no longer constantly refreshes the smolder effect which used to reset it. Now both damage types,cold from coi + fire from smolder(rimfire),apply at the same time,as they should.I'd appreciate some feedback or confirmation from the community on this,if possible.
It's BUGS bunny i tell you.
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But had moved on to a full Renegade build for testing at that point, so only got to look at the SS Thaum Build, MoF Thaum Build, Hybrid MoF, Renegade Spellstorm, Spellstorm Hybrid.
I never retested to see if this was corrected and saw nothing in the patch notes.
Chill should now change Smolder to Rimefire which should continue to fire without pausing. Also, any successive application of Chill should "refresh" Rimefire, replacing the current Rimefire with another that which has a new set of 4 ticks same as Smolder.
Below is a clip from a recent log:
As can be seen above, Rimefire Smolder does indeed fire along side Conduit of Ice. Prior to this update, Rimefire Smolder damages only appeared at the end.
Also, according to Grimah, Smolder fires at roughly 1.5 seconds depending on your level. I do not know how he got that figure but it would explain why there appears to be an offset between when Conduit of Ice and Rimefire Smolder are firing.
Thank you, Cryptic, for finally fixing this.
I truly enjoyed playing as a Master of Flame. I wanted to do this once IWD went live and had planned to move over to MoF full time, but as far as I know its still bugged in my favorite armor (Champion) which I generally use in PvE. On Preview I was using High Viz for the most part because the mobs hit so hard and I had to do a lot of solo stuff.
I have two sets of armor I switch between,
Champion with Soulforged (helps survive those nasty one shotting mobs, and gives ARP, and Health with same stats as VZ, plus very good recharge speed for one of my favorite techniques, Sudden Storm, I like it close up and personal)
High Vizier with Barkshield (just enough protection to get you in range to be able to steal mobs defense and put it on yourself)
EDIT: One of the reasons I reported this one originally was because when you had a Spellstorm Thaum using a lot of Tabbed CoI which is a common configuration with those builds, and an MoF using a lot of Smoulder, the SS Thaum would end up delaying the MoF's damage in HEs until the mobs were dead. So MoFs never got the credit they were supposed to for the HEs.
Now they will, This is a HUGE fix for MoFs as well as many times Spellstorm Thaums were getting more credit for damage than they deserved in really all aspects of DPS when in reality they were both equally effective when operating alone. The tactics with the MoF are different than with a SS Thaum, but both are equally effective.
Now the MoF will get proper credit for what it can really do.
I have not had a chance to test whether or not another mage can still steal ownership of Rimefire Smolder if they apply Chill to your Smolder first. I will test it this weekend hopefully. This could still be a problem with damage credit.
I was actually wondering this myself...should be easy enough to test in a parse as long as you don't use any ice spells in your rotation while the other mage does. If rimfire appears in your log in any significant way ownership isn't being stolen.
I'll have to test that, but I'm glad to hear it at least is doing something now!
But the truth is I was really hung over this morning after going out last night and had to log prematurely so didn't think about it. I repec'd to MoF last night, as my MoF builds were honestly better at longer range damage than my normal Spellstorm builds which tend to be close combat builds.
In Dungeons, everything is within spitting distance for the most part, so when I use specific Spellstorm powers for AoE they work great if you're right on top of the mobs, while incredibly dangerous to the mage, its also highly effective. But IWD you're doing a lot more ranged stuff which I find the MoF plays into better where even though my Spellstorm builds tend to still be very effective, the MoF's longer reach tends to work better. So I respec'd to MoF.