Comments on: How Come Nobody Told Me About Fire Nova?

By: Clickityclop

Clickityclop — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:08:02 +0000

Fire Nova’s pretty fun in raid too, although there’s not so much chance to use it. You know, part of me thinks that Blizz has something against us, they want us shammies use our ankhs in every spec!
-Enh, often dies to cleaves in melee due to having mail armour and relatively low HP pool
-Resto, also kinda close to melee some times to bridge the melee-range gap for chains
-Ele, and now ele’s that want to increase their AoE dps will get in melee too (to put down that fire totem) and enjoy the pleasures of a quick cleave death.

By: Kazgrel

Kazgrel — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:26:17 +0000

Well, if it makes you feel better, I completely omitted Fire Nova in my guide to leveling as an elemental shaman. Now THAT is fail, imo. I r ashamed.

Seconding the advice on activating Fire Nova before the first tick from Magma Totem goes out. You could also use Stoneclaw to shield it, but with enough mobs present, that won’t help much.

I tend to get myself in trouble if I am in melee range because I’m quite capable of pulling aggro off tanks now (which I haven’t been able to do through the previous 3 tiers of gear in WoTLK). Sucks because seeing all that magma + FN damage is hawt, heh.

By: Oleander

Oleander — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:01:08 +0000

Macros can’t check for totems as a part of /cast and LUA can’t cast spells, so the best you can do is improve the feedback. You could make a macro which tries to cast Fire Nova and then adds an error message if there’s no fire totem (where “Spell not ready yet” goes), or plays a sound, or whatever. There’s lots of totem timer addons that can show icons when the totem is up, or you can use something like NeedToKnow to track the fire totem (and flame shock.)

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:42:16 +0000

The great thing about fire nova is that the damage is front-loaded, so you get a big whack, then wait for cooldown, etc. That’s very handy in these days of over-geared AOE-crazy PUGs – you actually get a chance to do some damage before the mobs die.
.-= Sven’s last blog: No lifers =-.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:24:07 +0000

The threat from Fire Nova gets applied to you, whereas the threat from Magma Totem gets applied to the totem itself, so if you're quick and hit Fire Nova as soon as you can after dropping Magma totem, the totem should be ok. .-= Andy's last blog: Worldview: Felwood =-.

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