Engineering

[Adelee]

Hi Jubeto,

I'm an engineer as well, and I'm wondering do you have any tips for using synapse spring? Right now, I use it on CD and I'm wondering if you do special things like if meta is almost ready and you wait for meta to use your synapse spring. Same goes for demon soul.

Thanks a lot.

[Jubeto]

Using stuff on cooldown is a bad idea. However stacking cooldowns is sometimes risky since impending doom is a RNG talent, which I find completely retarded as it makes planning my playing based on luck sometimes and lowers the potential skill cap quite a bit. At my gear level I can wait stacking synapse springs with satanform for ~30s to be better than using them on cooldown and Demon soul: felguard/succubus/imp for ~1 min.

The math behind this is rather simple. Satanform gives me something like 52% damage boost so during that time every stat we get is 50% more valuable than normally. Obviously pet suffers some dps loss if we do not use synapse springs on cd, but that gets equalized when you activate immolation aura and refresh BoD with all these supah cooldowns up.

Felhunter DS is quite tricky and I haven't really given it a thought yet, but stacked up with meta it gives BoD a massive dps boost.
None of this stuff is set on stone since encounters vary quite a bit, use your common sense and act according to situations.

[Adelee]

Thx, Jubeto. That wait time calculation is rather insightful.

[shadow]

Speaking of using cooldowns...do you use any of them in macros for spamable abilities? affliction wise

[Jubeto]

What could you possibly gain by doing that, Slightly more uptime with possibility of using it in a terrible situation?