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it has a lot of sense disregarding of gear and curren stats. Frozen touch is the ST talent and SI although is not strictly an AoE talent logically has to be slightly worst for pure ST. Generally speaking you should use Splitting Ice and Arctic Gale this is the best combination for Antorus and any ra...

is terror from below that good? I am currently crit capped the set of trinkets i am wearing is a pvp versa badge (925) with socket, brinewater slime with crit (helya) 930 with socket. got a 920 terror from below with socket. Judging from zulandia's chart the terror should be a lot better than the sl...

Boss: Misstress Sas'zine Difficulties: All but specially Heroic+ since there are no tornado free gaps. Spec: All Tip: all the debuffs on this fight are removable, in phase 3 you can avoid the consuming hunger debuff but also if you get hit by a tornado or your raid is unable to kill the adds fast en...

the meme of the forum is sim yourself but this is yet another case... if you have low mastery it will sim as the highest priority stat so the best you can do is sim every time you equip an item.

Simmed with raidbots GS and mastery shows as 1st stat O.o. I have low mastery 42% 33,5% crit 25% haste and 4% versa. My sim is Mastery>Versa>Int>haste>crit i was gearing for TV during NH. Looking at guildies that have been stacking mastery their sim is the opposite haste main stat and mastery lowest...

what about trinkets? i don't know how to sim all of them just replacements. I think tarnished medallion might now be an absolute BiS since mastery has been weakened. pretty sure u got a typo there and that you ment "might not be an absolute BiS". I asked myself the same question. Since it just prov...

what about trinkets? i don't know how to sim all of them just replacements. I think tarnished medallion might not be an absolute BiS since mastery has been weakened.

rotation is a bit on the fly now as a rule of thumb: -Drop as much IL when frozen orb is up, guaranteed crits. -Flurry frostbolt only if icicles are <3 , if you have 3+ icicles save the flurry to shatter glacial spike. -If ebonbolt is up you can shatter al frostbolts, and when you are at 5 icicles c...

One question is if flurry still empowers the icicle. I am not sure about anything but if mastery is the worst stat then at least we can look for crit/vers crit/haste items which are good for both TV/GS, just in case blizzard messes up again. They have a problem with scaling, Windwalker for example a...

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 100...

what the actual fuck... mythic starting in hours and they possibly ruin the best working spec¿ How can we sim this change? why is nice that SP's can deal 1,X millions of dps but a mage can't under some conditions? I see that he is pretty far ahead from the other logs but some specs are dealing also ...

The ring is very weak, the new TV is mainly holding IV for ~40 seconds and casting many FB, with IV relics you can IV every half a minute or so, haste weight has taken a dump, with the 2 IL issue you needed something like 30% haste, and this way you were able to keep IV uptime almost forever if luck...

BiS legs. are the new helm and the shard. If you don't have them, bracers are the close 3rd.

after i got concordance on frost weapon i have started investing in the fire weapon. Without any active Ap farming i am 2 traits far from concordance on offspec too. I think this is the best you can do, if there is any skorpyron style fight in ToS (which should as they like to put at least 1 purely ...

Question regarding to new sims: I have an arcanocrystal of 860, after 9 months into the expansion i don't know if i am lucky or not tbh,right now i am using a 900 whispers in the dark and an 885 erratic metronome, mainly because im playing TV should i swap metronome with arcanocrystal? Apparently th...

what i don't get is why at first we were encouraged to get mastery when it sims at the very bottom for everyone

same here, was using it with comet storm now you've to click

What i find more strange is that top TV builds are using lonely winter (which means 2 less charges of FoF due to no elemental), and splitting ice a lot of time which means 40% less ice lances (i don't know if double hit ice lances mean double IV extension, then is probably worth taking SI on nearly...

i have the legendary gloves and when we are running normal/hc farm i use TV to test, i have high mastery/versa gear (55% mastery/11% versatility) and some light haste 15-20% don't remember exactly, 32% crit which is a must on both builds. I barely pull the same dps on ST/Cleave which is around 600-7...

I have been running simulations of Glacial Spike vs Comet Storm because i have noticed my dps is almost the same on ST using comet storm than GS. On most real fights my top damaging specs is Ice Lance followed closely by Glacial Spike my current stats are: Crit: 31% Haste: 22% Mastery: 51% Versatili...