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Until the main guides are updated I'll keep a quick summary of results for essence DPS here to make it easier for people that are looking to make informed decisions. Fire Single Target - Major+Minor https://i.imgur.com/HjhxuRE.png Single Target - Minor https://i.imgur.com/NHdVI7T.png 3 Targets - Maj...

Actually, tracking them and trying to time your spells for it is always a dps loss. You are wrong. Please explain to me how firing everything off instantly is a DPS gain over only using 1 charge of PF+FB and waiting for 10,000 extra int and then firing off everything. It's generally because there a...

Honestly, I don't know why this thread is still open. Unless you want to provide a real argument besides "agree with the obvious, it's so obvious" than you may as well say nothing.

recently switched to fire mage from frost and trying to get my stat priority in order, with that said raidbots is telling my to get insane amounts of haste ? is it overvaluing it because of firestarter and waist legendary? should i just ignore what it says and continue getting more mastery ? Theres...

Below is a brief comparison of the new Netherlight Crucible effects for each of our specs. Master of Shadows: Mastery increased by [ 650, 1300, 1950 ]. Murderous Intent: Your Versatility is increased by [ 1750, 3500, 5250 ] while Concordance of the Legionfall is active. Shadowbind: Your spells and a...

Mastery and Vers should be pretty close on single target. 533/% for mastery, and 450/% for vers - they both do pretty much the same thing on ST. That 1% for ignite is going to be scaled by 16% for the ignite trait - so it ends up being ~460rating/% for ignite vs 450/% for vers. Unless there is somet...

CiS cooldown, some RPPM effects (usually damage procs), flame patch tick speed.

No it's definitely a bug because i've gotten 2 proc from a single cast of AE on the pull. Its impossible to get 2 procs of AM with one AE without the rune on single target. Maybe you just facerolled AE in the cast 6 sec pre pull or hit a some bugs or an add on pull. I have tested this shit in and o...

They are single legendary sims. The cost of running Ice Time, an otherwise very weak legendary, just to proc sephuz is not taken into account there; which really is the most important part of the question. As of last night the sim should be procing Sephuz off Ice Time nova (as it does in game). Runn...

Updated OP sections for 7.2 except for weights/Trinkets.

Updated a few sections for 7.2. Trinkets/weights need to be re-done still. Traits/talents/legendaries updated.

Updated all sections but weights / trinkets for 7.2.
Added Trait comparison for 7.2 introduced traits under the Relics section.

Updated OP ST/4T sims.

Essentially crit is our best stat, with the exception of int, no matter what the sims say and what ever else is on the piece of gear is essentially irrelevant. This is very clearly wrong. If crit were the best stat, it would be weighted as such by the sim. You wanting or believing crit to be the be...

Perhaps you are undervaluing haste. The sim is there to figure something out, not to reinforce what you want to believe is correct.

mastery % = Rating/(400/1.2) So 333rating / ( 400 / 1.2 ) = 0.99% Mastery. The 1.2 comes from the Points -> % conversion factor, which is different from every spec. Arcane Mana/Mana regen has a 1.2 conversion factor. The damage portion of Arcane mastery has a 0.6 conversion factor. So Rating/(400/0....

Conversion Factors 400 mastery -> 1 Point -> 1%/Point I normally trust your knowledge base, Frosted, but I believe it is 333 1/3 mastery rating per 1% mastery for Arcane. I have 8503 Mastery and +25.51%. Deltoramasta has 9181 and +27.54% That makes it 666 2/3 mastery per 1% bonus damage We re-calc'...

Conversion Factors 400 mastery -> 1 Point -> 1%/Point 475 vers -> 1% 400 crit -> 1% 375 haste -> 1% Arcane Charges are an extra (1.0+( 0.6 + 1/2Mastery%)) for damage. Every additional % is therefore 2xMastery, or 800rating. Your math is wrong because you are ignoring the base 60% damage that Arcane ...

Haste is showing low for you for 2 big reasons: 1) Crit is our best stat, up until softcap (33.34%). Having too much crit isn't great, but generally I've found that aiming to have about 2/3 as much haste rating as I have crit rating gives similar stat weights for both. The shorter your Icy Veins, t...

Both mastery and crit have gone above intellect now? What happened there? I did a sim today and it put mastery bottom for me... Your individual stat weights will depend on which legendaries you have. People with Neck/Chest/Feet/Rings/Trinket will find Mastery is high priority for them. Conversely, ...