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I just simmed my guy this morning and int/mastery are simming as the two highest talents when before i was perfectly optimized for crit/haste. Guess those 975-985 mastery rings might come in handy.

I got the trinket over a week ago and it's been treating me well, most of parses are over 80% for my ilvl and quite a few 90%+

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Has anyone been simming at which point we can get rid of the T19 Shoulders/Legs? I have a number of 940+ haste/crit/versatility pieces and no combo of them even comes close to my 4 T20/2 T19. I'm thinking I won't be able to really switch out any gear until I get the 4 PC T21 which kind of sucks sinc...

Anything vs relic traits available to us to use as a tool?

When I played fire I had the same crap, bracers don't proc until 2 mins into the fight and i get an under 10% proc rate for the fight and my dps is absolute crap. For frost even if I go through a crappy rng period I'm still mid to top of the pack.

what are the stat weights now? I switched to TV because all my mastery gear in 7.1.5 all of a sudden became useless, the spec was clunky an seemed unintented when i was above 60% mastery it started simming so poorly so i simmed TV and by replacing some mastery pieces with crit/haste i got like a 10...

Just looking at the GS thread, it looks like Shard/KJBW is the 3rd best legendary combo for ST, best for 2 targets, and 3rd for 4 targets. Being able to use those two legendaries really free up a lot of Tier slots for properly itemized pieces. Plus you only have to worry about getting an 880 arcano ...

I was thinking about using Shard+Trinket (I dont' have helm/bracers and the shard+trinket is the 3rd best legendary combo according to sims). This leaves open all my equipment to potentially use T19 2 pc, is that going to be worth it to farm mythic NH T19 pieces and at what ilvl does it make sense t...

What is the owl trinket, sorry for my ignorance?

Since I switched from fire my gear has the perfect crit for Frost (33%), but my haste/matery are skewed. I'm like 48% mastery and 15% haste 6% versatility. Do you think since my mastery is so inflated glacial spike would be better dps than TV? Right now I'm 897 and pull between 625k-750k per fight n...

I switched to Frost last week, the dps is so much better and the spec feels so much smoother with the NH gear stats. I was thinking the same thing about what if they buff fire, but at some point you have to do what is best for your raid and Frost is just so much better for the majority of progressio...

Is it more likely fire gets buffed or frost gets nerfed. I was going to switch to frost all out, but if I have to go through another nerf wave like fire I'll prob just quit.

This was my preferred build in beta, but the pure dps was never there to main it. Are you concerned with the 7.2 changes to artifact weapons losing your 20% frost dmg making this build sort of irrelevant again? Also is it intended that Glacial Spike is doubling dipping from % dmg stats, if not are y...

Last night I finally got two piece, but I dropped a solid 5-6% crit in the process. The playstyle just feels very boring almost never getting 2 crits back to back without using a fireblast. Not sure my dps is actually going to go up from using the 2 pc rather than my old gear.

I wonder what the difference in DPS is between a perfect RoP rotation and using incanters flow, if it's within 5% I'd def rock IF all the time. The chances of using RoP perfectly every time throughout these longer NH bosses is almost impossible, something is going to go wrong.

I have the same issue others are having where the Oakhearts (880) is simming highest, but the damage is really inconsistent, most of the time my 845 shock baton (socketed) performs better in fights/target dummies. Clearly the number of fights/attempts is pretty small since we are talking less than 2...

I'm not the greatest mage, but I can attest that MI is super strong when you don't know the fight in and out, losing one RoP due to some heavy movement is just really disheartening. Our combustion rotation is also so much more fun to play around when I can just pop it and move/blink anywhere and not...

Has blizzard fixed the underlying issue with gear for 15 or even 10 ilvl gear gaps are always upgrades? Has anyone had any scenario where if they equip something 10 ilvls or higher their dps has went down?

We needed those changes. I have 887 ilvl in my bags but I only equip 875 because of how much better crit is compared to everything else. It's a matter of quality of life so that when we get to nighthold, and the gear is very light on crit, we don't pass on everything because of it. But we're not ba...

It just feels unfair when you look at shadow priest topping the leaderboards in every fight by a wide margin. then you have hunters whose AOE is built into their single target rotation and they press 5 buttons who are neck and neck with fire mages. No other class has to deal with something as annoyi...