Thursday, December 17, 2009

Blue weighs in on Conflag DOT and Empowered Imp

According to the official word, the conflag DOT cannot consume empowered imp. My own testing was as much on the PTR and live, honestly, so nothing in this comes as news to me. The math given in the thread isn't that surprising, as the conflag DOT crits with the same rate as the conflag nuke, and with a sample size three times as large, there's less influence from unlucky chains, the conflag DOT is one of our two most critting abilities, regardless. Additionally, because of how DOTs inherit buffs from the caster at cast time and not tick time, there should be no interaction between the effects.

There may yet be an issue with empowered imp, but my suspicion is that if there is, it's tied closer to the disappearing soulstone issue, not conflag. As some people have probably encountered, soulstone buffs have a habit of magically vanishing right now.

Meanwhile, a few people have encountered glyph of conflag malfunctions - they have the glyph, but don't receive the benefit. Relogging sometimes fixes it, switching specs, but the silver bullet seems to be overwriting the glyph with something else and then replacing it. At least one person has noticed this happening on glyph of quick decay, as well, and I suspect the issue may extend to all glyphs, though many would be very easy to overlook.

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