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op - exactly. ever since bc ive felt like this and its worsened with ea xpac

Is there a Ray of Frost build with Chronos Shard?

Like - why is it so hard to test different pieces of gear? All we have is Simcraft and no private servers? This is nuts - this game has been around since 2004.

I also wanna do crit/verse gear only

I want to do a custom rotation as I am experimenting with a high crit gear(52%+), low-mid verse(20%+), low haste0, low mastery0 build. I need it something like this. prepot hero rune of power icy veins frostbolt>glacials orb frostbolts rune frostbolt glacials pot I will not be needing flurries as my...

do you have an actions list - APL?

I want to build one like

prepot
hero
rune of power
icy
trinkets
orb
frostbolt
glacial spike
frostbolt
glacial spike


no flurrying or icelancing or ebonbolting

I am experimenting with a high crit build.

Let me know how I do this custom rotation.

Updates for 7.1.5?

someone told me IF with 35% crit and then mastery

http://puu.sh/srOzc/5d3da5635c.jpg Any idea how he did this? I hit 9M all the time with 70% mastery and about the same amount of intellect and un optimal crits on my frostbolts during raid. He probably got 5 crits on the target dummies, plus he has 90% mastery and a 5% damage ring. Its feasible.

Hey guys, awesome thread - Anyone have sims for infernal writ? it is not listed anywhere in top 20 on our trinket sims? I'm sure it would be higher...

On a different note, is this build being massively nerfed on PTR? I just simmed this build with nightly PTR SimC and the DPS loss is massive. Guess the frostbolt damage loss really hurts this build a lot. They removed Frost Armor (-8% haste). It's a catastrophe to say the least. I honestly don't se...

I am still finding it so hard to believe that BC>LW. How can this be, if your rotation is always inside of RoP?? 28%>6% also pet dmg is only 30% is that really that much extra damage from your pet?

Imo and in the small amount of expirience i got with this build, your running with to little haste. I know haste is not that well simmed for this spec, but i feel like anything under 24%ish haste ruins the rotation, and the dps i pull. My mastery is around 70% and crit is 37% and haste right now 25...

Hmmm, Would a mastery stat stick be better than a crit stat stick? if mastery is the highest weight... Why is crit > mastery for you?

Another thing to take into consideration when simmimg. For some reason, Selphuz's Secret is proccing in simulations, greatly increasing the total DPS of this spec. In real raid envoirments, this ring doesn't proc at all on bosses.

How do we turn this off in sims? How do I make a custom item?

I can feel this nerf a bit. I was not sure if my dps was because my pet was on passive or my casts were slow but something felt like a huge nerf! I am starting to believe there is a live 8% haste nerf for frost. A stealth/silent one though. My dps is definitely lower.

What did they do to my build last patch? I am pulling subpar numbers:( idk what they did but I got 40K dps worth of gear upgrades and I am pulling 100K-150K less dps with this build? wtf??? Something feels strange, but there are no patch notes. I even improved my rotation to not use icelance during ...

So I have an 860 frozen orb dmg relic
2 840 frost bolts
1 870 icy veins

how do I sim these to find out the best one for this GS build?

actions+=/ice_lance,if=buff.fingers_of_frost.react>0&buff.chain_reaction.react>2&(equipped.138140|equipped.132411) does this line mean if we do not have the bracers or the gloves we should not icelance at all?

Did a bit of relic testing. Using Hellfreeze's profile and 25k iterations:


1 target

I do not know how to read this at all.

Does this mean the proc chance is only higher if it is 10ilvls higher than the frost bolt one?

Thank you! I have been running the Mastery build with GS, I fricking love it.