Empowered Fire

Mage Addon Wonkiness

Editor’s note: Scorchio now works as of 3.3.3. Hooray!

Since I have long recommended Scorchio, I’ve had more than a few mages who use it ask me if I’ve noticed that it isn’t working post 3.3. Yes, yes, I have. The problem with it is that Scorchio2 tracks the procs based on your combat log, not on your aura gained, and for whatever reason Hot Streak and Missile Barrage are no longer recorded there. This means if you’re not watching your buff bar, you’ll miss your procs. The author has opted to wait and see if Blizzard is addressing this issue before overhauling the code for the addon, which means those of us who use it need to look elsewhere for solutions.

Since I was already using PowerAuras, I opted to just make a couple of alerts when I get the procs I need. PowerAuras can be a bit of a resource hog, however, so a very lightweight solution (and the one Ais is currently running with) is installing NeedToKnow to track your procs. Both addons work by detecting the aura you receive when you gain the proc and so will work even with the current combat log issues.

I still recommend Scorchio, however, for the ease of tracking your stacks of Arcane Blast, your Living Bombs, the length of time left on your mirror images, and whether the 5% crit debuff is active on your target: all of these uses are still functional and Scorchio is very easy to set up. I’m content to run with a mishmash of addons to achieve what I want for a little while, at least.

I hope you’re all enjoying the new content! I, for one, have missed massive trash pulls: doing 16k damage on them last night was ridiculously fun. We’ll see how I feel about them in a few weeks, though. Cheers!