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Changed Fire Breath's total damage, instant and periodic, should now be consistent at all Empower ranks (Patch 12.0.1)

When Using the Pandemic mechanic you can start a new cast after the 3rd damage tick, which transfers the remaining duration and 4th tick to the next cast; this is how you spell queue Disintegrates.

When Cast Living Flame if you have either Burnout or Leaping Flames, or with 2 stacks of Burnout or a single one that is about to run out; cast it until you have enough Essence to cast Disintegrate.

Changed Living Flame healing increased by 25% (Patch 12.1)

When Cast Azure Strike to proc Essence Burst, or until you have enough Essence for your spender.

Changed Damage increased by 50% in Patch 12.0

When Cast Pyre as the Essence spender at 3+ targets (Flameshaper) or 4+ targets (Scalecommander); it costs 3 Essence unless you have Imminent Destruction active.

When Rank 1-4 hits 1/2/3/4 targets, or 2/4/6/8 with Eternity's Span. Hold both Empower spells when Dragonrage is about to come off cooldown for proper Animosity extensions.

When Greatly enhanced by the Season 1 Tier set, making it a core rotational spell in all situations. Cast it as filler with the Season 1 tier set; pick Power Nexus or Shattering Stars instead until you acquire the tier set.

When Cast Deep Breath with no Melt Armor up on the target, or when Strafing Run is about to run out.

When Can be used to cast Eternity Surge matching the target count.

When The goal of the opener is to maximize your Dragonrage window and extend it with Animosity while trying to avoid overcapping on Essence or Essence Burst.

When Cast Shattering Star in the opener and send it on cooldown.

Changed Midnight Season 2 tier set

When Unbound Flame may be cast 4 times before Dragonrage finishes its cooldown.

When If you chose Flameshaper, use Engulf after applying Fire Breath to avoid overcapping charges.

When Always use Mass Disintegrate after Empower spells even if you are fighting higher target counts; on 2 targets choose different targets with each of the two consecutive casts to apply Bombardments to both.

When Press Tip the Scales to gain the buff.

When Take it for more Tip the Scales casts.

Changed New Talent in Patch 12.0

When Keep Verdant Embrace HoTs out.

When Take it to press Temporal Anomaly more often.

Changed New Talent in Patch 12.0

When Adds a lot of passive healing in a Chronowarden Mythic+ build.

When A Chronowarden damage and healing addition.

When Take it for stronger Verdant Embrace.

When Take it in a Chronowarden Mythic+ build.

Changed New Talent in Patch 12.0, removed in Patch 12.0.5

When Take it for longer Echoes.

Changed Redesigned in Patch 12.0

When Gives more frequent Dream Breath and Fire Breath casts over a fight.

When Take it in a Chronowarden build.

Changed New Talent in Patch 12.0.5

When Gives Chronowarden enhanced mobility.

When The better pick when you can benefit from extra defensive capabilities; you need to time it well.

When Usually the better choice unless you specifically need Temporality's defensive effect.

When Very useful in raid to maintain the HoT across more targets; much less valuable in Mythic+.

Changed Updated in Patch 12.1

When A stronger throughput option when you don't need the HoT extension, like in Mythic+.

When Take it to boost Chrono Flame.

Changed New Talent in Patch 12.0

When The list of abilities it affects is detailed in a separate section on the page.

Changed Changed in Patch 12.0.5

When Increased to 5 targets with the Bountiful Bloom talent.

Changed In Midnight, Emerald Blossom will no longer consume Echo

When Damage can break this effect.

When Rotate Obsidian Scales and Zephyr for heavy damage events.

Changed Renewing Blaze was changed from an active button and is now baked into Obsidian Scales

When Use Expunge or Cauterizing Flame to dispel Toxic Spores, Tempest and Cytotoxin.

When Use it during Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar to jump to an ally and soak their orb instantly.

Changed Healing increased in Patch 12.0.1 and Patch 12.1

When Use it to stop enemy casts for the benefit of the group, especially the tank; it is highly recommended to use a Focus Kick macro for this.

Changed Moved to the Augmentation and Devastation talent trees in Patch 12.0

When Use Cauterizing Flame (or Expunge) to remove the healing absorb from Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour.

When Damage has a chance to break this effect.

When A standard pick in the raid.

When Very potent for long periods of medium-high damage, as it keeps your health pool high and limits your risk of dying.

When Take points out of Innate Magic and Enkindled to pick it up when you want greater control.

When Great during Howling Maelstrom for your raid to optimize dps.

When Take it to give the group extra mobility.

When Rotate Obsidian Scales and Zephyr for heavy damage events.

When A great talent for M+ tied to Deep Breath, allowing you to have another defensive against large hits in boss fights.

When One of Devastation's three main AoE stop abilities; works great on Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant orbs.

When Useful for interrupting groups of casts; works great on Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant orbs.

When Press it as the group's haste cooldown.

When Starting a cast such as Disintegrate at the very end of a Hover buff still lets you finish that cast while moving even if the buff runs out; track your uptime and charges of Hover on your UI.

When Using it optimally requires fight awareness; especially in raids it can often save your less mobile allies from sticky situations.

When You can easily cancel the knockbacks from Raging Crosswinds and Viscous Cyst with Glide on Sszorak.

When Passive; nothing to press.

When It can help with longer AoE CC rotations and prevent mobs from moving.

When Drop its points to talent into Cauterizing Flame.

When Take it to cover repeated mechanics.

When You can use your healing spells during downtime to gain some damage.

When Taken in Mythic+ alongside Quell.

Changed New Talent moved to the class tree in Patch 12.0

When Take it to make Hover faster.

When Take it for empower and Essence economy.

When Makes Living Flame much more worthwhile to weave in.

When Despite Dragonrage no longer having a cap on its duration, you are unlikely to go much beyond 34 seconds due to the diminishing returns on each extension.

When Drop the point in it and swap it to Unravel if there is a shield that has to be removed from a hostile target.

When Passive; nothing to press.

When Take it to make Hover last longer.

When The author recommends taking it, even if it is a minor loss, and continuing to use it until you are very comfortable with the spec.

Changed Panacea healing increased by 25% (Patch 12.1)

When Weave a Pyre cast in between Mass Disintegrate casts to make use of Charged Blast.

When Should be focused down as fast as possible, use Unravel.

Changed Redesigned as a passive in Patch 12.0; damage increased by 300% in Patch 12.0.5

When Take it when getting health back quickly matters.

When A standard pick in the raid.

When Especially useful for optimizing damage while moving.

When The gain at 2 targets is roughly 1.5-2% DPS, so you should be fine playing with Power Swell in a raid environment, but you should always be taking Star Salvo in Mythic+.

Changed New Talent in Patch 12.0

When Cast max rank Fire Breath then Living Flame to generate 1-2 Essence Bursts.

Changed Changed in Patch 12.0

When Take it with Oppressing Roar in Mythic+.

When Take it for more Hover flexibility.

When Use it for the cast-while-moving effect.

Changed Breath of Eons reduces the Essence cost of your next 6 Eruptions by 1 (Patch 12.0 redesign)

When Take it for empower and Essence economy.

Changed Patch 12.1.0: now also reduces the empower time of Dream Breath and Fire Breath by 20%

When You should be fine playing with Power Swell in a raid environment, but always take Star Salvo in Mythic+.

When Use it as crowd control.

When Has strong synergy with Onyx Legacy and Wingleader as Scalecommander.

Changed Midnight Season 2 tier set

When Apex talents are a new feature in Midnight; you can allocate 4 talent points to reap the full benefits.

When Choose it over Shape of Flame for a more mobile feel, at the cost of sometimes overshooting with Hover.

When Usually loses to Expanded Lungs on its node.

When The default choice on its node because of its synergy with Consume Flame.

Changed Patch 12.1.0: increases the healing of Dream Breath by 20% (was 30%)

When Quite a large damage increase, so try to target high health targets whenever appropriate.

Changed Patch 12.1.0: increases critical chance by 10% (was 15%)

When Part of the Flameshaper Dream Breath package.

When Take it for faster ticks.

Changed Patch 12.1.0: causes Fire Breath and Dream Breath to deal their damage 15% more often (was 20%)

When Take it as a Flameshaper Essence Burst source.

When You should pick this talent out of the two defensive choices most of the time.

When Can sometimes be a good choice if you are the squishiest target in your group.

When Do not send out both Fire Breath charges right away, to maximize the damage over time portion to use with Consume Flame.

Changed Patch 12.1.0: Consume Flame heals for 240% of the amount consumed (was 200%)

When Further improved by Wingleader and Extended Battle.

Changed Wingleader redesigned - Mass Disintegrate/Mass Eruption reduces the remaining cooldown of Deep Breath/Breath of Eons by 0.5 seconds/1 second for each target struck, then increased to 1.5 seconds per target struck (Patch 12.1)

When Make sure that you press Deep Breath while at 0 charges of Hover when playing Slipstream.

Changed Nerfed in patch 12.0 to restore one charge instead of two

When Do not spam the Breath of Eons keybind, as you may cancel it before it hits while it still goes on cooldown; use /cast !Breath of Eons and put /cancelaura Breath of Eons in other spells' macros.

Changed Maneuverability's damage over time increased by 40% (Patch 12.1)

When Make sure you are not using abilities that generate Essence Burst when you are capped on charges or capped on Essence itself.

When The damage buff should be spent on Disintegrate instead of Azure Strike.

When You should have at least some flight-time so the Commandos have a chance to shoot out their spells.

When Pool both charges for each Stasis use.

When Take it for more Fire Breath casts.

When Part of the Flameshaper Dream Breath package.

When A Flameshaper source of Essence Burst.

When Take it in a Flameshaper build.

When Take it in a Flameshaper build.