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Broedest, TY for the link. If you updated that sheet you're amazing. Sorry to see WitD was nerfed a bit. Still looks very strong as a stat stick. I'm surprised Terror is simming so high for ST. I rolled greed on my guild's normal clear and got the Spear trinket because nobody else wanted it. It's ve...

Most gearing going into TOS appears to be pretty straight forward for frost. My only question going into tonight with up to 9 bonus rolls at my disposal is which trinkets to use. With the removal of double IL the metronome seems to have lost some practical impact. WitD at a high ilvl looks like it w...

I had probably 50 tries in with the approach used in most of the videos. Kite, kite, kite, kill karem late in p3, then Raest is a pushover when everything else despawns. Then I tried the burn Raest starting with the second imprison on Karem, and I got it on the 2nd pull. 910ilvl. It was so easy to b...

If you thought the bracers/ring combo was good for frost before, wait until you realize that means you can 4+2pc wearing them. I honestly expect there will be come outcry and that will be changed at some point because the massively predominant best legendary pieces for many specs are in tier slots. ...

Sims I've seen indicate the lastest PTR build frost is getting some nerfs aimed at reducing IV uptime, but an increase to the base damage output of the spells and should still be pretty good. The devs clearly don't envision Icy Veins as something that should be extended for a minute+ and would appar...

I'm at the point that I don't run as fire for high level M+ anymore. My frost aoe has now gotten strong enough that combined with my FAR superior boss damage I'm doing more damage over the entire course of a dungeon than I could/can as fire. The 2M dps big trash pack pulls are great still on lower l...

Step 1 is learning how and when you can double-lance. Step 2 is figuring out how to do it in a fight when you're getting procs like crazy. It's easy to find yourself suddenly under the boss because you keep running up so you're losing the shatter. Having blink/shimmer so you can go back is helpful b...

Right now I have weak auras on the right vertical of my UI for cast speed, the dutchmagoz double IL, WitD proc (plus and minus), IV, and lust. What I've observed with my current gear is that WitD pushes me over 70% and metronome procs will push me over 80 just on world trash pack pulls, and I can do...

Has anyone broken haste down to a raw number or percentage where it works in the 15-20yd range if you run in for the 2nd IL? There are too many possible buffs to haste right now with metronome, WitD, lust, and IV. The red/green WA is very well done, but I feel like it's missing some situations where...

Yup. I'm not as geared as you, but I pulled 600k+ on Skorpiron and a few add fights. Get to Star Augur and I'm working my butt off to parse over 400k. The bracers and a stat stick trinket really help for single target. Even the few adds who pop late aren't enough to justify any multi-target skills. ...

I have sort of the same question. I'm at around 1800 unbuffed haste right now. Since I run frost on some fights I've enchanted into multi which according to simcraft has a pretty strong weight for me compared to mastery on arcane, (0.80 versus 0.72 for multi). Are you all still eating haste food or ...

Just registered and giving it a go. Most of what I want from simcraft is for it to tell me which piece of gear is better. Askmrrobot is really bad for mage this tier. I may try to input the stat weights from Beotorch over there and see if it works with the best in bag feature.

Has anyone run through the CM's yet in 6.2 as arcane? I'm wondering what gear you used and maybe what skills you went with. I'm not much of a Simcraft guy, so I'm not sure how you'd simulate gear for CM's because all sockets, set bonuses, and tertiarty stats get ignored for CM's besides scaling to 6...

Awesome answer. Is there a cap on mastery I should be worried about in the meantime?

I'm hoping someone who runs simcraft extensively can help answer a question or two for me about secondary stat priority. I ran a few 4/4 crafted pieces through most of BRF Heroic. Itemization of some of the drops was bad, and the drop rates on pieces like cloth belts were really bad for my guild. I ...