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I'm not sure if I'm retarded, but the way the Stat prio reads is for 2/4 piece, that Haste to 1300>int>haste>mastery I have a 2 piece, and currently have haste @ 1859 (20.66% unbuffed). When I sim, it shows mastery & multistrike to outweigh haste by quite a bit. My assumption is that Haste to 1300>m...

I saw a mage spamming flamestrike on adds the other day, doing like 170k dps. I guess this increases the ignite, but was wondering what the mechanic is here, and why someone would do that. I think he was using lb/spread and dragon breath on cd also, but i thought flamestrike didn't need to be refres...

Not a fan of nochanneling macros, simply because you can't do the AM spellqueueing trick with them. Not clipping missiles isn't an issue after a bit of practice.

what is the AM spellqueueing trick??

It does appear that. OK, ty The difference for adding the sandman's trink is 32,424 vs 31,917 for the 2 on use. Not a massive difference, but decent. For replacing the copeland's with only a level 1 sandman, you achieve 31,800 For replacing Shards and keeping sandman lvl 1 you achieve 31,365 So, if ...

The Sandman's would be like a very minute upgrade to the copelands if you had it 3/3 (maybe 20 dps increase or something), not worth it. One thing I did notice, Simcraft prioritizes Shards of nothing over copelands for the start of the fight. That seems a little counter-intuitive to me. I would thin...

Just got shards of nothing from the mythic garrison thing (would have preferred runestone, but oh well). Problem is, I also have copelands, and there is a 20 second delay when you have 2 on use trinkets, so you can only use 1 @ a time. I feel like haste is kind of wasteful during initial burst, espe...

Frostwolf has a slight edge over shattered now. Very slight though. 298xx vx 297xx

ok, now it has a slight edge. Does it also scale better on the kargath fight with favor? What was changed in simcraft to change the calculations?

So, my sims are showing that at 665 ilvl, shattered hand still has a very slight edge. Yet, I see most of the mythic mages using mark of the frostwolf for weapon enchants. Will the frostwolf enchant scale better for damage buff fights like Kargath?

Can anyone tell me why this is?

Thank you. Is this to mean that they also benefit from arcane charge, or no?

i feel bad for making this, but I can't seem to find my answer. Mirror images also benefits from heroism, correct? Can anyone tell me exactly how they work so I can stop wondering about it.

Also, open to anyone showing me how dumb I am for not being able to find my answer.

Nice. we ended up getting it down, but it wasn't pretty.

Is berlina's guide still applicable to the arcane spec with the change to barrage? Can anyone give any tips on the rotation? With the evocation and barrage change, seems like there may be some changes to the way the rotation is done. It seems weird to evocate at 4 stacks if you could get a good barr...

It's all comp-based i guess, but wanted to hear some opinions on the best way to manage his damage and shield. I guess if you have too many magic classes, you end up breaking his shield too many times and get too many orbs. If you have too many physical classes, you take too long getting the shield ...

Is there any issue or trick to getting mana after the respec before the pull? Is there a macro that will let you swap specs back and forth? I tried '/usetalents [spec:1] 2; [spec:2] 1', but it only switches to 2ndary spec when I'm in primary, not vice versa. Are there any tricks with shatter for fro...

Thank you, it was very helpful! I tested some combinations of talents (except for Comet Storm which is awful) in the heroic butcher fight. Since it's a "training dummy" encounter, I figured it would be a good way to make comparisons. I didn't get along very well with the IN/MI/PC, doing 17-18k DPS ...

awesome. thanks for all the work you do frosted, cheers.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to change talents within the program. I've just been changing them in-game and using the import feature, but hopefully there's a better way. Can anyone help me out? Just wanting to change talents on the fly, but keep everything else consistent with respect to the ...

it would make sense that you would do that, since you would benefit from 3 definite fof with fb up.

I would feel like TV is the ez mode of frost.

Also still didn't hear from anyone, are people keeping FB up all the time in case of procs, or only when you get procs or know you're going to get them? I'm hearing different opinions on this and want to know what you guys think.