February 22, 2024 4 min to read

Combustion Priority

The Prio

What’s our goal in Combustion?

To do as much damage as possible! This means using all of our hardest hitting spells inside Combustion, and consuming as many Hot Streaks as possible!

Spell Damages:

• Fury of the Sun King Hardcast - Pyroblast Hardcast: 713.67912% of Spell Power - 2.3 GCD’s or Flamestrike Hardcast: 261.3757428% of Spell power up to 8 targets - 2 GCD’s
• Meteor - 296.01% of Spell Power - 1 GCD
• Flame Accelerant Fireball - 220.7161% of Spell Power - 1.2 GCD’s
• Pyroblast - 198.2442% of Spell Power - 1 GCD with Hot Streak / 2.3 GCD’s when hardcasted
• Flamestrike - 72.604373% of Spell Power to 8 targets, reduced beyond - 1 GCD with Hot Streak / 2 GCD’s when hardcasted
• Fireblast - 131.538% of Spell Power, OGCD & CWC
• Fireball - 129.833% of Spell Power, 1.5 GCD’s hardcasted
• Phoenix Flames - 77.0537% Spell Power - 1 GCD
• Scorch - 24.4% of Spell Power - 1 GCD

When to Pyroblast versus Flamestrike

• For Ignite or Single Target builds, you use Pyroblast to consume Hot Streak and to hardcast for Sun King’s Blessing
• For Hybrid builds, you consume Hot Streak with Pyroblast if there is a priority target at any target count, otherwise at 3 targets or less. You consume Hot Streak with Flamestrike at 4 targets or more as long as there is no priority target. You hardcast Pyroblast for Sun King’s Blessing at 2 targets or less, and hardcast Flamestrike for Sun King’s Blessing at 3 targets or more.
• For Flamestrike AOE Builds, you consume Hot Streak with Pyroblast at 3 targets or less, and consume Hot Streak with Flamestrike at 4 targets or more. You hardcast Pyroblast for Sun King’s Blessing at 2 targets or less, and hardcast Flamestrike for Sun King’s Blessing at 3 targets or more.

Priority:

The way we play would be as if we were reading this list from the top down, every ms, and actioning on the highest item on the list available at the time

• Maintain all Buffs without munching Feel The Burn, Improved Scorch(If talented), Etc
• Hardcast Pyroblast or Flamestrike for Sun King’s Blessing as appropriate
• Cast Meteor as long as it will land before Combustion has ended.
• Hardcast for Fireball with a Flame Accelerant proc, as long as it will finish before Combustion has ended
• Consume Hot Streak with Pyroblast or Flamestrike as appropriate
• Cast Fireblast to convert Heating up to Hot Streak as aggressively as possible without dropping Feel the Burn
• Cast all Phoenix Flames charges when talented into From the Ashes or talented into neither From the Ashes or Alexstrasza’s Fury, to convert Heating Up to Hot Streak
• Cast Scorch if none of the above

Note: Replace all Scorches with Fireball when your haste exceeds 100%, except the minimum amounts of Scorches required to maintain Improved Scorch

Okay dude, I’m not a friggin super computer. I can’t go down that list multiple times between each button press, what gives?

Combustion Prio rewritten:

This is a lot more simple than it looks. So let’s break it down for a person to read, not a computer. Don’t give up just yet, I promise by the time you’ve finished all the Combustion parts you’ll be able to pull this off with a bit of practice.

• Don’t drop your buffs, don’t munch and don’t overcap Fireblasts
• Hardcast Pyroblast or Flamestrike for Sun King’s Blessing as appropriate
• Cast Meteor as long as it will land inside Combustion
• Use 3GCD combos (These make it so you’re following rule 1!)

Note: all Scorches get swapped to Fireballs when your haste exceeds 100% (in double lust) except what few are required to maintain Improved Scorch if you are in Searing Touch.

Special Note: Combustion and Sun King’s Blessing have unique interactions with each other you should be aware of.

• Combustion should not ever be cast while you have the Combustion buff currently active from any other source, as the spell resets your buff to 12 seconds. Meaning it will completely overwrite what you have left thus losing you those few seconds of buff time.
• Sun King’s Blessing should always be casted as soon as possible, as it adds 6 additional seconds to your Combustion buff.

That’s the prio! I’ll be covering more on how to pull this off without a super computer for a brain over the next few sections, so bear with me!