BW Proposal - Combustion & Meltdown

[Zaxxond]

A question to begin. Combustion seems to proc more than then tool tip bar of 35%. Has there been any recent updates in the past 45 days with percent of chance to cause an explosion?

Problem - At 100% Combustion there is a advertised 35% chance to cause a 750 damage explosion to yourself on the action bar. This explosion can proc multiple times in 1 timestamp and doing 3750 damage to yourself in 5 seconds is the norm. You are not getting an equal value of offensive damage to your target when you use meltdown @ 100% combustion with 750 damage to your target.

Proposal Suggestions to ponder.

1. Double the existing meltdown damage across all tiers of combustion to make it worth dumping your combustion.
2. Reduce the percentage chance to explode across all tiers of combustion.
3. Reduce the damage of explosion across all tiers of combustion.
4. Remove the chance to proc combustion explosion on each tick of a dot.

These changes are requested for Sorcs as well.

[Wiede]

Or you could use your mechanic to control the damage.

No one ever said you have to be at 100 all the time.

This thread is reason to make the selfdamage even higher and more dangerous because BWs/Sorc seem to take their 90% uptime crit-rage-mode and timestamping enemies as granted because the drawback is neglectable enough. OFC we need a mechanic like that and it's okay to have it, but demanding buffs for that is ridiculous, sorry.

edit: as far as i know (probably not up-to-date), combustion only can proc for applying a dot, not vor every dot tick. BWs/Sorc would just explode when applying their AoE-Dot xD

1. Double the existing meltdown damage across all tiers of combustion to make it worth dumping your combustion.
2. Reduce the percentage chance to explode across all tiers of combustion.
3. Reduce the damage of explosion across all tiers of combustion.
4. Remove the chance to proc combustion explosion on each tick of a dot.

1. You have one of the best scaling and damaging mechanics of the game. The price is high (imho not even high enough) and there should be no reward in form of more damage for dumping your mechanic. You should not dump it, because that benefits you in form of damage. You should dump it, cause it destroys you while having it up.
2. Every third cast is not much tbh. No reason to reduce that.
3. Also here: why rewarding the player having the mechanic up even more? It's meant to be dangerous, thats why its such a good mechanic.

What could be an option is, to make the proc chance permanent 100% and lower the damage drastically. But then i think the mechanic has to be nerfed too. 250% crit damage and 35% critchance is unbelievable good for having a small chance of blowing yourself up or in this case doing some lower self damage every cast.

[teiloh]

If it's proccing at 35% it's working as intended. As it is, the tradeoff seems justifiable.

Quick note wrt Combustion/Dark Magic mechanic strength, BW and Sorc tooltips (or contribution) are a bit lower considering their mechanic, so it's not too strong either imo.