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I discovered missing IL crits a while back and had to retrain my fingers to wait for the GCD from the flurry. was hitting IL too quickly.
it's a thing.

I'm trying to calculate in each encounter how many IL casts I theoretically should be making. I always track my IL crit % (want it to be 100%), but just as importantly or moreso, I want to know if I am ignoring or munching any shattered IL casts along the way. I have always used: BF procs + FoF proc...

Not a direct answer to your question, but if you're 100% sure you're not going to benefit from a 2nd lust, I would suggest you use Raidbots and sim your gear options with shard excluded and run with that.

I'm sad. I just simmed GS v. IV at my gear level and it is 4.5% lower dps.

After trying frost and never really doing well with it even following this guide to a T - I think I have found the problem and it may help alot of other frost mages. Having mained a mage for many years I am used to ABC (always be casting) and queuing up spells, and keybinding my spells I use all th...

if given that scenario, i'd launch the orb and immediately fire off the EB. odds of getting more than 1 FoF before you're done with the EB->FL-> IL chain seems low.

Looking for data points on how folks approach gear swapping in heroic antorus raid. the factors for me are: a) when we lust and how that impacts if/when I can use shard b) aoe v. ST v. priority boss and my role in the raid (portals on PK , e.g.) I would appreciate any specifics you can share about t...

a) It might well be, because versa has a worse conversion, so losing a combined 5% of haste and crit is less than 4.9% versa. The worse conversion is the reason why versa is not that great for some specs, but becomes better the more you have of other stats. b) How do you loose int by changing rings...

I know it sounds blasphemous to even ask, but I must. is there a single fight that CmS might be better than IV? I was simming myself for "aoe/cleave" fights to figure out my best gear set up, all along, thinking my talents of Splitting Ice/Arctic Gale and of course Icy Veins would be a constant for ...

I sim everything and currently my optimal ST Light Movement set up is 4pc T21 and no T20 pieces, with legendary Helm and Shard. Helm has consistently simmed better than bracers for me. The 4 T21 pieces I have been lucky to get are: 935 Shoulders, 915 (LFR) Back, 950 Gloves and 960 socketed chest. (1...

The same way you know how to respond to a post but not how to read one.

" I'll sim it but thoughts are appreciated. "

derp

I'm strictly a HC raider, we won't do mythic raiding. I love GS and was committed to it until the "great destruction of mastery" killed the scaling potential of GS then reverted to IV build and have been running that. HOWEVER... in the past couple of weeks, my weekly chest has been very generous to ...

Was pretty surprised to find that 900 Spectral Thurible and 905 Charm of the Rising Tide simmed higher for me than 880 Whispers + 860 Arcanocrystal. not a lot, but higher. in fact, an 880 Int+ Vers stat stick simmed higher for me than the arcanocrystal; I guess my main stats are high enough sans arc...

EDIT: I was able to change the Mr. Robot stat weights to match my sim results and now can sort by proper stat priorities. I still struggle with how best to "use" my sim results - what am I looking for, is it just running different gear set ups and such to compare output? thanks Can't tell you how mu...