Ladies and gentlemen let me introduce to you the lazy mage build.
Thanks to a new option in settings you can press and hold a key instead of spamming it.
With this build you barely take your finger off the pyro button. The only other keys you will press are fireblast to convert heating up procs and the odd meteor and combustion (maybe the odd shimmer to survive).
You will auto proc SKB and fire frenzy (frenzy wasnt working for me on beta yesterday) with pyroclasms and meteors chucked in for free. Surprising fun but will be great for farm kills when you can’t be bothered .
Feel free to trade the 3rd charge of PF for cauterize so you can ignore the odd mechanic.
Disclaimer: Untested with a damage meter and may do awful dps.
This is the kind of thing that should be an open possibility in a good talent system.
That being said, I can’t see it, nor any of the other options competing against full CDR (Shifting Power + Kindling) with RoP and extra Combustion procs (SKB + Time Anomaly).
I think even this sort of hardcast pyroblast build will want to play Improved Scorch. Having 12% extra damage during your execute phase is insanely strong.
There is a problem with the autocast system, it produces a substantial gap between every cast, which would over time cascade into a significant dps loss.
Is that bug something that’s been confirmed to exist by American players? It could simply be a latency thing. EU players got high latency on the beta, just like they would on the US realms.
Yeah I’ve had a few US gamers confirm it.
I suspect its an intentional part of coding so that things like Hotstreak can function properly, alas the gap is too wide at the moment.
I noticed that on hot streaks, 2 pyros with a delay instead of together. I thought it was a bug fix for the skb buff counter lol (firing off an instant pyro with your hardcast skb activator won’t count the instant as a stack). It fixed that lol
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