The Igneous Flowstone trinket from the Aberrus raid is very powerful for many melee agility specs, but they are unable to get it to drop from their vault or roll from it in raids.
IntroductionSeason 2 brings with it a new raid, and with that, a new array of interesting trinkets to play with. Of particular interest this tier is Igneous Flowstone, an item that drops specifically for ranged DPS specs.
What is Igneous Flowstone and Why is it Powerful?Igneous Flowstone is a powerful trinket that has 2 separate effects combined into one — a critical strike bonus and a damage proc, each of which occur every 30 seconds.
Once equipped, you always start with Igneous Low Tide, which causes your next harmful spell or ranged ability to grant a critical strike buff for 12 seconds. The critical strike bonus Igneous Fury, when averaged out, is slightly less than that of other trinkets at similar item level, such as Screaming Black Dragonscale or Ominous Chromatic Essence.As soon as you gain the buff, you also gain a separate buff, Igneous Flood Tide which gains 1 stack per second until you have reached 30 stacks, at which point it becomes Igneous High Tide.Once you have Igneous High Tide, your next harmful spell or ranged ability will cast Lava Wave at the target, dealing split damage amongst all nearby enemies. This damage proc is already competitive with other powerful damage trinkets such as Dragonfire Bomb Dispenser and Beacon to the BeyondAs soon as this occurs, you gain 30 stacks of Igneous Ebb Tide which deplete 1 stack per second until you are back at step 1.Note that the Flood/Ebb buffs can continue to tick out of combat, but the actual procs can only trigger if using a harmful spell while in combat. This state is only
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