

This filler shift only occurs when Keg Smash and Breath of Fire are both on cool down and will recharge at the same time and will take some time to figure out when to switch fillers.

While storing a charge of Blackout Combo, you cannot cast Tiger Palm, which would consume the charge, so you have to switch your filler spell to Spinning Crane Kick while you are waiting for Blackout Kick’s 4 second cooldown. You NEVER want to spend your charge on Tiger Palm (only spend on Tiger Palm if you have >8 seconds CD on Breath of Fire and >4 seconds CD on Keg Smash, otherwise, “store” the charge to prevent casting delays in the future). Spend it right away if you have Keg Smash, Breath of Fire, or Celestial Brew available. You always want to use Blackout Kick on cool down to store a charge of Blackout Combo. I realized that you can weave between two “fillers” to be able to “store” a charge of Blackout Combo. Last night I finally had a moment of insight. We want the empowered abilities but we don’t want any delay. If you played like this, then Blackout Combo becomes worse than High Tolerance.

Ideally you would like to use BoK -> Keg Smash -> BoK-> Breath of Fire but because of the 4 second cool down on BoK, this would cause many delays in the cast of Breath of Fire whenever the two abilities recharge together. The most important factor in this scenario is that by design the cool down values of Breath of Fire and Keg smash cause these abilities to reset at the same time very often. However, if you actually take Blackout Combo and play around with it, you will notice that there are some funny timing issues with Blackout Kick, Keg Smash, and Breath of Fire, which makes it SEEM like it’s impossible to empower all of your big abilities without any delays. If you do the math, the bonuses from Blackout Combo make it a better talent than High Tolerance on the assumption that you can empower every single Breath of Fire, Keg Smash, and Celestial Brew without any delay (the bonus to Tiger Palm is a trap and rarely should be used). Hey everybody, had a moment of insight last night and got excited to share it with you all.īlackout Combo is a really cool talent that empowers several of your abilities if you cast Blackout Kick before that ability.
