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Hey guys, today I go over the changes coming to the Firebird's set. It's one of (if not the) highest performing sets currently based on its completely unique playstyle where you actually want to skip trash until you engage an elite pack, then drag that elite pack as long as possible - the exact opposite of most builds. There are lots of build and gear variations here and I may explore some of them, but for now I'm rolling with Disintegrate/Energy Twister for insane crowd control (i.e. Pull Monk from afar). Enjoy & discuss!

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Does the new etched sigil work with black hole? as in, will a black hole be cast every second while channeling Disintigrate or does it only work with secondary AP spenders?

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Does the new etched sigil work with black hole? as in, will a black hole be cast every second while channeling Disintigrate or does it only work with secondary AP spenders?

Didt test with blackhole, but tested with wave of force the 1 with a cooldown, and cooldown was accounted for while i was casting it, so assume its same for blackhole, else wise it would be OP ^^

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Does the new etched sigil work with black hole? as in, will a black hole be cast every second while channeling Disintigrate or does it only work with secondary AP spenders?

Spenders with cooldowns only proc when on cooldown (so if it's 10s, it'll proc once every 10s). So kind of useless unless it's a very short CD.

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Is there maybe some room to squeeze in a Zodiac ring to lower the cooldown of e.g. fire black hole or molten impact meteor? These 2 spells are kind of interesting as they have relatively high weapon damage % and help with getting to a permanent fire dot much quicker. I suspect that we still want to move around quickly and just channel until we have the permanent dot up, then continue to the next pack.

Molten Impact may have a use, maybe, but still a pretty long CD. Black Hole is generally not necessary if you use Energy Twister + Ranslor's Folly (with upcoming nerf to Star Pact you probably will).

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That's some interesting mechanical insight. If it stays like that, I agree we should put a spender without any cooldown and twisters with Ranslor's offer some great CC.

Yes I think with the coming nerf to Star Pact 'bug', most will be switching over to ET because eventually it DOES deal good damage and the CC is incredible.