You should throw hydras on for the source of burning and conjuration mastery bonus, also the crits from hydras activate the destruction glyph if you use it. Also I'm curious what your burning damage I'd in town and when out of town with conflagration active.
In Season 4, when I had the two legendary rings, it was around 1475 in town, then 3.2-3.4k outside of town, then as high as 4.5-5k when channeling (conflag). With the Starless/unique ring instead (so 1 legendary ring), that dropped by about 600-1k on the upper end. On the PTR, I think it was a similar starting point (1 legendary ring), which is around 1250, but the out of town channel was WAY... WAY... lower. I think it was topping out around 3.5k; around 1500 short of previous. Hydras is a good idea. I thought of that when trying to figure out what I should use the extra points removed from the Ice Armour passives for. But I didn't want something else to have to hit buttons for. Eventually I just put it into Warmth and Teleport. Also can just replace destruction with another glyph that doesn't need an active trigger (unleash, pyromaniac, etc).
@KestonCharles yeah I have been considering replacing destruction as well, but I like the hydras for activating the concentration aspect for 25% DR as well. I'm going to keep tweaking my build.
@KestonCharles I've not played in the ptr since I'm a console pleb, but in running my number through the calculator I should be very close to where I am now bit slightly lower and then higher once I reach 50% health to activate engulfing flames. But the big thing that has me worried is the all damage double dipping that they said they had fixed in the patch notes. I'm not sure how much that factors into my calculations that I'm not accounting for.
@@BosleyAaron depending on the setup it’s not too bad. On my builds I only had 170-230% Damage % stat for instance. Which is not too huge. We did get a bunch of new aspects which mix conditions for increased damage though. ALSO I forgot, the meteorites that fall on the FS activation are direct damage and can Crit. So don’t need Hydra if you wanna trigger destruction.
@KestonCharles well l, I bought a pc today and have been playing the ptr for about an hour. I don't have the same gear as in the live server so I can't do a one to one comparison but I've got it as close as I could and ouch. Boss damage is very low, it will take a long time to activate engulfing flames. I did replace destruction but still am using the hydras for Dr and extra burn.
It looks like the enchantment part of the firebird aspect triggers when you lose 100% hp and has no cooldown? Is that right. Cause i was wondering if it triggers through the hp loss or whenever it comes off cooldown.
@@kevinsims5791 It gives you the Flameshield enchant for free. The flame shield enchant still abides by the rules of the passive, which includes a 30s cooldown. The aspect doesn’t give you a free flame shield cast, it’s just giving you the enchantment. Once the enchantment triggers, regardless of the source, you get a 30s cooldown debuff on your status bar.
@@kevinsims5791 yea I am using Yen’s Blessing (per 8s), and Sly Steps aspect (per 32s). So there are 3 different aspects rotating there. Which totals about 20s of Flame Shield coverage (25s if I manually cast one) in a 30 second loop (4 procs). That’s why it may seem like it’s going off a lot. That
