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Regardless or not, arcane's burn dps outside of ap/rop is not as powerful as you think. The reason why Kilt/Soul and Soul/Shard are powerful is because they capitalize on maximizing damage in the ap/rop burn. Soul increases ab casts under cds, shard the same as well as amplifying TSM as it scales wi...

Just some quick things. If I were you, I'd play Kilt+Cord for legos. It's a decent combo. As for talents, there is little to no reason to play anything but RoP. Learn to play with RoP, it'll help you a lot. Plus it has nice synergy with MoA+cord. As for your opener burn, you're doing quite a lot wro...

You're really only seeing IF on DI and Sashimi, and that probably has more to do with sustained aoe/cleave, where IF can sometimes out perform rop.

I think the thing is mastery isn't bridging the gap. Top arcane logs are evoing randomly and only for 2 ticks. You simply do not need mana the same way you did with quickening when you have Overpowered, MoA returns and kilt (if you're using it). It's not devoid of value, for instance it has a larger...

Mastery is more valuable because, as you said, you don't regain mana when you barrage. Also, you probably don't have much mastery since you've been playing with kilt. I can't say how much mastery you want to get without being feelcrafty, but the stickied post has the reforge plot for haste and maste...

You dont clear with ABarr during conserve, instead choosing to AB at 4 charges. This means a larger percentage of your ABs are at 4 charges, meaning you spend more mana on less ABs, meaning less AM generation. Each AB does not cost more, but you end up with less AM generation during conserve. Then y...

You get a second mana bar to burn with spiral.

You also spend more mana per AB, which results in less AMs. Its my understanding that this is the real problem with GS.

I've noticed you can capitalize on it best by moa>rop>barrage>ap+pom when gcd ends.

After getting my t20 tp, I was doing some fishing around for some insight into openers. Initially I was doing 4ab-moa-rop-ap-abarr-pom(at end of GCD)-am>ab. However, looking at some top logs I see some precast moa-rop-ap-pom-am>ab, like the CU opener. Additionally, the new arcane apl defaulted by si...

You want to hold it for ap/rop/hero. It's interaction with haste is the important part so thats what you care about.

This is entirely based from experience, but aoeing feels weird with kilt+shoulder. You just naturally sit at really high mana if you do AEx4AB with kilt. That being said, I have done zero simming or real testing since I haven't raided this week or done much m+. I'm curious if it would really be bett...

He's correct, the 900 will be better. In the future, you can use this link to sim relics. It helps to make decisions relative to your own gear etc.

Agreed, would have loved to see something more for ST for some more options. That being said, this does look pretty insane for m+. We'll have to see, there are some clunky things to consider since you need to worry about the direction you're facing, and orb flies pretty far so you'll have to be care...

It is nowhere optimal. I am 913ilvl, 2ivlls higher than u. Here are my logs: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/rankings/character/20079585/latest" target="_blank Normal rotation > everything else Figured I would finally make an account to chime in. I agree, it is not even close to being optimal. Anyone ...

See above, not a sim issue it is understatted to the extreme in game.

Yeah I have no issue with the sims, for the record. I understand why the new ring is under-tuned. I was trying to be polite about the distrust of the sims.

If you've found a problem with the sims for ptr, be sure to contact the research team on the discord so they can make the necessary corrections.

Sims are already out on ptr stuff and the ring isn't very good. Currently it has too few stats to make it better than most other options. However, it was also simmed with faux stats from Shard, and it performed the best. Here is the image, credits to Searix I believe from the discord. I'd expect som...

Perhaps try again with amplification? I remember the math on WoP being really bad when some people discussed it in 7.1. It was something like 2-3 more missiles proc at the cost of AF mana (and MoA damage). You might see better results. I do like trying to work around MoA+RoP on cd, but that can be t...

Prior to this AB was still better because of AM procs.

Wait really? With this trait arcane should just stop using AB?? For ST?

Did you read the the above posts? They clearly state that it appears to be that AE>AB on 2 targets, because the AM proc chance is now the same as AB. There is no mention of ST.