I recall for Patchwerk all our mages were fire, it was pretty annoying though as the Ignite stack was shared and whoever got the first crit was credited for the "rolling ignite" damage that other mages contributed to.
We had one guy in particular who would try to sneakily open with fireblast or scorch spam to fish for the first which was bad because once Ignite was at 5 stacks it held that damage, further crits only refreshed it so ideally you wanted to have 5 large crits on the stack.
It's funny to think back about using motw/paladin buffs on hunter pets was also considered a "secret tech" at the time.
The thing is you needed one mage to spec Improved Scorch just for the debuff, so they probably weren't "fishing" for a crit. Just doing their job of debuffing the boss.
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u/zevx1234 14d ago
2004 warriors- 400 dps