So. I made a glass cannon boomkin a long time ago in a futile effort to feel the kind of glory I imagined 24's felt when pressing starsurge and seeing the bright yellow numbers "1,600" show up on their screen.
It was hopeless, I knew it, I couldn't get the kind of crit rating required while preserving the spell power necessary to reach those numbers consistently, but I was hitting 1,200 two or three times per match, and while that made me happy, it also served to remind me how far I was from my ideal.
When I looked at the scoreboard at the end of the match and I was still below all 4 of the hunters in the game and that one 24 boomkin was so far out of my reach it almost always made me immediately reach for the log out button, the temporary joy replaced by a melancholy dejection.
Even after all the effort, all I could hope for was to stealth behind a fight and get one eclipsed surge off, praying to see that glorious one-shot crit, before I was turned on with my glassy 1200hp and immediately ripped to shreds.
But now... Everything has changed. The dream is real.
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Without even trying, moonfires and sunfires somehow hit for 500 damage, 3 starsurges in a row fly in for 1200 each, everything is dropping left and right and my opponents feeble burst trickles my 2700 hp away so slowly that I can darkflight away at any point with almost no risk of being caught, only to return fully healed with 3 more charges of starsurge and a plethora of targets to choose from.
It's the dawn of a new age.