So… bloodmallet and hero’s damage dont show it as top corrupt but top mages in M+ stack this corrupt HARD…
Why?
Im no firemage expert, heck i do like max +10 on mine but
Isnt mastery like … rly gud? 
i expected glimse x1 to be on the top ( You can store up to 3 stacks and get 3 insta pyroblasts )
It is good but bloodmallet and hero’s damage don’t rank it that high
The thing with masterful is that it mostly increases your burst and your cleave.
Bloodmallet sims as if you’re a turret standing still and just perma casting, that is not how real fights work, and in real fights with more downtime masterful will get more value.
Also many fights in this tier use fire mage’s ignite to efficiently kill adds, and masterful just increases your cleave damage by a lot.
That’s why top mages stack it, even though it doesn’t sim incredibly on bloodmallet.
OK, that makes sense, thanks for explanation…
Now is versatility corrupt or crit corrupt good?
I mean, I have tier 3 tentacle, tier 2 infinite stars and t1 twilight devastation as way-to-go… but I have masterful gloves I can use instead of twilight devastation… should I get rid of tentacle and use my crit/versa/haste corrupts instead?
Als, is stacking masterful good just for M+ or way to go for raids/pvp as well?
Mostly because it has insane synergy with blaster master. Blaster master gives you extra mastery, and you’re going to keep that at 3 stacks during combustion, and with masterful that mastery increase is just going to go higher, which results in insane combustion ignite damage. You generally do not want other mastery corruptions though, because they’re simply not that good, and more importantly do not synergize with blaster master.
Stacking masterful in any fight with more than 1 target is the best right now, strike through is also great (increases crit dmg = bigger combustion again). You can also see masterful/strike through stacking even in single target fights, although at that point if they’re only pure single target fights infinite stars can pull ahead.
what about tier 3 tentacle? it does insane damage on its own
It’s another option for single target. If you want to know what’s the best, you need to sim it at raidbots.com, because sims differ based on your character, and how much of a single corruption you stack.
This is not necessarily reliable information, because I’m theorycrafting a little: but I think that the tentacle corruption is better if you don’t have a lot of corruption, but if you can stack infinite stars then that surpasses it (because I believe only the proc rate increases past rank 3, and infinite stars is really good at 10 stacks, so with higher proc rate you’ll get more value from 10 stacks).
Bloodmallet and herodamage are still set up for pyroclasm build. Infinite stars is technically better for ST but not by much and masterful is better as soon as there’s any cleave which is the majority of nyalotha and everywhere else.
Also haste proc, infalible truth, crit dmg and clarity are all strong partners to mastery.
Versatile is also good, but you masterful is really good because of the 3k mastery from blaster master, whereas you have no really big source for versatility, but if you need to fill out your corruption budget, then it’s still good.
Crit not so much, as fire mage you don’t really want crit, but if you’re running suboptimal build with TA and IS, then it could be decent, since they give crit a lot of value.
You would have to sim it, but generally stat corruptions don’t always match up to TA if you’re meassuring rank 3 TA vs rank 3 versa. This is partly due to that TA costs 3 times the corruption, so if you would be left with too low corruption without TA, then i would probably keep it, cause it’s still good, just not as good per corruption as other options.
Also TA is very inconsistent, so that is something to take into account aswell.
I personally play twisted appendage r3 for extra immersion as a void elf mage
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hah, that’s the spirit!
Well, thanks for answers, guys.
I like twisted appendage since it’s basically free damage
And i only have 2x blaster master anyway ;v
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