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Comment by rays

Once your crit rate hits an obscene percentage, you can actually get 4 critical strikes with this buff if you use Fire Blast immediately after your last fire spell.

Comment by Chandrialla

I like to keep a set of crit gear handy for farming (rod of the ogre magi, gordok handwraps, etc.)...for fire mages, nothing can make the farming easier than pulling off a greater than usual amount of crits.

Comment by 8004

Combustion makes life a lot easier for mages. Just pop this spell every time it's not on cooldown and you'll find mobs and players a like falling at your feet.

Even the initial 10% crit chance is a HUGE bonus. Fire mages without this are pretty much lame.

Comment by 9151

Since critical strikes can trigger Ignite and Master of Elements, a heavy fire mage would do well to get this talent. Works very well in AOE situations as well, get your crit chance up as high as possible then after 2 successful crits, throw a flamestrike or blast wave in there. Not "on demand" damage like Presence of Mind or Arcane Power, but that extra 10% crit right off the bat is nothing to scoff at. Plus, it actually saves you mana through MoE rather than costing more like AP does.

Comment by skitzosmeagol

Combustion is an amazing skill, with multiple mages in your guild you can initiate combustion rotations (Mage #1 Pops combution and begins to cast and fire a fireball Mage #2 Pops combustion both mages start casting and shoot Mage #3 Pops combustion etc...) With my fellow mages in my guild we have managed to keep rolling ignites up the whole fight (pre 2.0, now you must roll your own ignites) This talent is not PVE only i use this time everytime it is up in bgs and since it is a buff i activate it and im worry free till the cooldown is up again. Crits on fire are devestating, and you can reach alot more DPS with combustion than you ever could with POM.

Comment by 9788

If you're far enough away, you can also use scorch to get the 4th critical (as described in the first comment) providing fireball hits at the same time.

Comment by Thottbot

nobody's got anything to say about this? I think this is a cool spell, but it will be nerfed soon with the new mage talents..

Comment by Thottbot

I don't think it is nerfed so much as fundamentally changed, possibly for the better. Once activated, every fire spell has a chance to crit, and if it doesn't it increases your crit chance by 10%, so you could spam something small first then still end up with your big Pyroblast. It isn't nerfed, and it quite possibly could prove to do more damage than the original had managed.

Comment by Thottbot

You hit this spell. A buff come up and it stays for.. to log of or.. well for very long. When you used 3 crits the cooldown starts so.. Its realy no big use to walk around with it but.. why not?

If you're hitting/critting any firespell for example Pyroblast/fireball the crit chanse of any firespell will go up 10% Notice its hitting/critting

I use to (only tryed one instance yet tho) Spam scorch untill I got 2 crits or over 70% crit chanse. When I made that I use a non fire spell for example frostbolt. Then I tell my party I wanna pull with pyroblast:) It's nearly a defently crit! And with ignite it some damage to pull with. Gotto have a good tank to do this tho. Notice that the crit chanse increeses so if you get it up to 70% your base crit is like 15% its 85% to crit! GOGO
If you wanna get some awsome crits in the bg starts you can go outside for examlpe ogrimmar and try to crit up this thingy so you can get a fresh highly crit pyroblast (to bad you can't have POM and this :/ its a hard desition. My advise is if you wanna grind and go PvE solo take this one. If your going PVP POM is a must)

If anyone has anything to add do it:) Please tell me if you find more ways to use this with:)

Nudel at Defias Brotherhood

Comment by Thottbot

PoM is not a must for PvP, in fact considering the destruction of the arcane tree in 1.11 PoM and ICS are becoming obsolete considering the crap you have to first put points into. With no imp AE or evocation left in the arcane tree the majority is quite useless.

As for this ability, anyone who thinks of putting a point into this for anything other than PvE (which it's marginal for anyway) should be shot, even with a scorch build it's a horrible waste. You're crazy if you take this over PoM or iceblock, it's purgeable too, so if you come up against a shaman, lock w/ felhunter, or priest, kiss it goodbye.

Comment by Thottbot

PoM is still one of the best talents, Combustion is realy good but i think ill take it in BC with PoM togheder. it will be pure imba. anyway arc. tree is not useless if u r going PvE to. cose there ara things like clear cast, arcane resilience and imp. cs. its realy use full but bad luck is u have to spend points on tier 1 talents. they are mostly useless :/
But i think for a fire mage is PoM one of most important talents (for frost is better barier i think)
and doesn't combustion just increases your crit chance for 10% 'till you crit 3 times? and when is CD start running? when you use it or when u crit 3 times? thats the question

Comment by Thottbot

nvm

Comment by Thottbot

I am a lvl 50 fire mage, and it seems like its easier for me to kill mobs or alli when i have this activated.

I just wish I didint have to wait so long after using it, to beable to use it again.

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Combustion

Combustion

Talent

Instant	3 min cooldown

When activated, this spell causes each of your Fire damage spell hits to increase your critical strike chance with Fire damage spells by 10%. This effect lasts until you have caused 3 critical strikes with Fire spells.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Fire

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

3 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 1
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script
Affected Spells:

	Fireball	Fireball	Fireball
	Flamestrike	Flamestrike	Fire Blast
	Fire Blast	Fire Blast	Scorch
	Fireball	Fireball	Fireball
	Fireball	Fire Blast	Fire Blast
	Flamestrike	Flamestrike	Scorch
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	Scorch	Scorch	Fireball
	Fireball	Fireball	Fireball
	Fire Blast	Fire Blast	Scorch
	Scorch	Scorch	Flamestrike
	Flamestrike	Fireball	Blast Wave
	Pyroblast	Pyroblast	Pyroblast
	Pyroblast	Pyroblast	Pyroblast
	Pyroblast	Blast Wave	Blast Wave
	Blast Wave	Blast Wave	Pyroblast

Effect #2

Trigger Spell

	Combustion

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Cast time is hidden
Do Not Sheath
Starts cooldown after aura fades
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