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  AlnilamE

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  I use the MS staff instead, and BSW in jewelry/clothing pieces and I'm happy with that.

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  JustMeAgain

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  raaphor wrote: »

  With the BSW destro on the front bar, the proc will remain active when you swap to the backbar with e.g. a maelstrom destro. So you only temporarely loose the 4th piece bonus. With MS destro on the front bar you loose the 4 & 5 piece bonus while on the backbar.

  
  They asked do you need a BSW staff for the proc. The answer is no, you just need 5pc BSW. If you have MS jewels and staff, and 5pc BSW anywhere else, for example, you wont drop the extra spell damage when you swap, because it's triggered by a flame damage ability and runs on a cooldown.
  
  "When you deal damage with a Flame Damage ability, you apply the burning status effect to the enemy and increase your Spell Damage by 490 for 8 seconds. This effect can occur once every 12 seconds."
  
  So, regardless of how you have the BSW configured gear-wise, the proc will not drop if you swap. You only need to have 5pc and a flame damage ability on front. When swapping any front barred set will drop the 4&5pc bonuses, but not an active proc. This also works when going from back to front, eg, MA staff, etc. You drop the opportunity to proc it, but if it's already active, swapping has minimal affect.

  Edited by JustMeAgain on July 18, 2021 7:33PM

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  raaphor

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  JustMeAgain wrote: »

  They asked do you need a BSW staff for the proc. The answer is no, you just need 5pc BSW. If you have MS jewels and staff, and 5pc BSW anywhere else, for example, you wont drop the extra spell damage when you swap, because it's triggered by a flame damage ability and runs on a cooldown.

  
  correct you only need 5 pieces of BSW in whatever combination to be able to proc,
  but BSW destro on front bar instead of MS destro has an advantage of 1528 spell crit if you can keep high enough uptime on the BSW proc. (this is true for every proc set that stays active when you drop the 5 piece bonus from bar swapping).
  
  BSW front bar:
  you loose 657 spell crit fom the 4 piece bonus and the ability to proc the 5 piece bonus as long as you are on the backbar
  
  MS front bar:
  you loose 657 spell crit from the 4 piece bonus and 1528 spell crit from the 5 piece bonus as long as you are on the backbar but you can still proc BSW when it's off cooldown.
  
  It's perfectly fine to not use BSW flame destro but if you want to optimize everything you should consider it.
  
  Question 2 from OP: yes the flame damage enchant and BSW proc stack (unless they changed it since 2 patches ago when I was using the set)

  Edited by raaphor on July 18, 2021 8:24PM

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