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Wasn't it like this even in 5.4, the only difference, as far as i can remember, is that the cut-off for mastery was much higher (100% or 120%) than this. Should definitely try it in the raid :lol: In 5.4 we needed 130% mastery and 50% haste. I.e. impossible. This was only true with local analysis (...

Where are you getting this? This is not the behavior I have heard or observed. Player shields, including Ice Barrier, are always depleted before the barrier. From the raid leader of my guild. Do I have to question him and link him to this post? The fact that Disc Priest is at an significant disadva...

Fire blast can be used to make the spec a little less button spammy, in the sense that when you fire your AB at 4 stacks and have no AM procs, you can queue fire blast instead of spamming AM in case you get the proc from AB. Since Fire blast is instant you can also react to if it procs AM too. I thi...

It's more about balancing stats rather than stacking a single stat. And power is just another stat in pvp. I never done the proper maths on power, but it always felt somewhere between secondaries and primary. Stronger than haste and weaker than int. So I didn't gem for it because of double budget on...

2. Yes, to bring down a decent healer you need coordination with your teammate. Generally it's either cc dps and bring down healer, or cc healer and bring down dps. The latter usually works better at lower mmr. But generally you need to cc the one that is easier to be cc'ed and nuke the one that has...

Sorry for the (extremely!) late reply, because I intended to reply after the weekly training session on Monday. The training session was postponed, however, so I tried them out on a few reckless Horde pigs that harassed Stormwind and the Shrine on my realm. I'm glad to report that the tips from @ly...

As Vog said, stats snapshotting for spells is usually done at the end of casts, or for each tick during channeled spells like AM. The only exception to this that I can think of is Frost Bomb, which calculates damage on explosion. If you use Ice Floes to finish an AB cast within RoP, it will receive...

Also remember that arcane is just theoretically higher. If you can't play it in a progress raiding environment, you'll end up doing worse. I on 10m progress you can't get away with even half the scumbag things that 25m arcane mages can get away with on farm. This is very accurate. But, half? More c...

Hard to say. There's isn't a real guide to arena, it's more about knowing your opponents and how to counter their abilities. In 2s didn't play with a hunter, but only with wars and rogues. But here is my general mode of operation: 1. Take cold snap. Especially since you don't have a healer. 2. Decid...

Thanks for checking further into this and refining the ideas! Maybe I'm nitpicking here, but on average 1 FoF should be generated per 6.67 Frostbolts (with median being 5). Or conversely in 8 Frostbolts you should get on average 1.2 FoFs. This does reduce dps though, will take another look a little ...

Thanks for verifying and refining it further!

I did use 548-6 default APL (it's not the one I posted before) in my latest experiments.

Thanks for the crit correction. I checked in game, simc and TCOM and you're right, while the data on Wowhead/Wowdb is wrong. Correct coefficients should be (from in game): 419 + 0.402 * SP TCOM is off by 1, but it doesn't matter. Data in simc is hot fixed, by applying 20% on the coefficient. Was com...

That's odd, as I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything. Assuming 50% haste and 25% crit with meta up. FoF-IL dpet: (A0 + 0.335*SP)*1.25*4*2*AMP FrB+Icicle dpet: (A1 + 1.5*SP)*(1+M)*(1+0.25*(2*AMP-1))*1.5*1.3/2 Since A1/1.5 ~= A0/.335 ~= 1040, solving for M: M = 3.5812 - 6.87179/(1.5 + AMP) ~= 1.05679...

I've played around with the new frost APL and made some changes to it: actions=counterspell,if=target.debuff.casting.react actions+=/cancel_buff,name=alter_time,moving=1 actions+=/cold_snap,if=talent.cold_snap.enabled&health.pct<30 actions+=/conjure_mana_gem,if=mana_gem_charges<3&target.debuff.invul...