FeenixServerProject/Archangel_2.4.3_Bugtracker — Issue #201: [Class] [Ability] [Talent] mage: interaction between arcane concentration (clearcasting effect), arcane potency and arcane missiles
Author: lawnmover
Created: 2012-01-28 17:56:01+00:00
State: open

now: on arcane missiles cast, clearcasting have a chance to proc on any of the missiles, while getting wasted on the next missile of the same volley. clearcasting triggers arcane potency.

it should be: (quoted from wowpedia)
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-Clearcasting can only proc on arcane missiles at the moment before the first missile where the mana is consumed, NOT on each missile individually.

-The 30% additional critical strike chance from improved clearcasting IS in effect for the volley of missiles that procced clearcasting. This can be confirmed by opening your character info pane, which will show that your crit chance is 30% higher.

-The arcane missiles you cast after an arcane missiles that procced clear casting will ALSO get the increased critical strike chance, in addition to not costing mana. Therefore, assuming a mage was spamming arcane missiles, and one procced clear casting, his next TEN missiles (two volleys of five missiles) will have a 30% higher crit chance, and cost the price of five missiles (one volley.)

-If the mage in question is particularly lucky, and clearcasting procs on two arcane missile volleys consecutively, the 30% critical strike chance DOES stack. For example: a mage fires an arcane missile volley that procs clearcasting, giving that volley and the next volley a 30% increased crit chance. He then fires another arcane missile volley for no mana that also procs clearcasting. The 30% increased crit chance from the clearcasting that was just consumed as well as the 30% from the new clearcasting that just procced combine to give that volley of arcane missiles a 60% increased crit chance, meaning almost every missile in that volley should be a critical, if not all. To top it off, the third volley will also have a 30% higher chance to crit and cost no mana, and the same thing will happen again if that one somehow procs clearcasting. NOTE: Unlike the single clearcasting buff, that shows your crit chance is 30% higher, the 60% stacked clearcasting will not be seen on your info pane, because once a clearcasting is consumed your crit chance returns to normal, and only the spell that consumed it has higher crit.
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links:
http://www.wowpedia.org/Talk:Arcane_Missiles on date april 2008 (2.4.3 patch running, as t.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft says) main article with links to test on 2.4.3
http://www.wowpedia.org/Talk:Arcane_Potency another confirm
http://www.wowwiki.com/Arcane_Concentration again on the "on cast check"