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On Mythic Kargath RoP is meh as there's lots more movement (tiger fixates for example). Same on Twins, i don't think you have enough uptime for it to be ahead of IF.

RoP on butcher and non mythic kargath, IF on anything else.

It really isn't a big deal at all.

Cold Snap is for the iceblock reset so I can soak the fixate twice:)

Ah right, we just have hunters take care of that if they get it but mostly we just go for pillars to avoid it. Gz on your kill!

I really really want to try fire, possibly going arcane if there's any fights that require lots of single target damage

"Teo that was the highlight of my night" - our bear tank

The reason why Pyro+Fireball doubles the chance to proc another Pyro is that both those spells have a travel time, so they both hit at the same time. Scorch on the other hand doesn't have a travel time, so it doesn't work like that.

I think it would. Also scorch has a fairly low crit chance, as it's not affected by Enhanced Pyrotecnics. We don't even cast IB there, so i don't see why Scorch would be a good spell to cast.

Yeah, you should definitely go in the stands with LB, in which case also go for IF. I guess LB would still be nice for the tigers, but i haven't played that fight as fire yet because my gear sucks for it, so i'm not sure. I don't think Cold Snap is particularly useful, and on that fight the damage i...

I ran a rough sim and it showed to be basically identical: http://altered-time.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1009#p10647" target="_blank What you are missing is that since Frost Bomb doesn't do damage on its own, casting it when you could be casting something else instead is less than optimal. You w...

The only thing i can think of is that holding on to 2 FoF procs before casting Bomb might lead to some munching. As i said, i tried changing that last line from buff.fingers_of_frost.react=2 to =1 and nothing seemed to change dps wise, but frankly i have no idea why that is happening. My idea origin...

Saying that RoP will now be the go-to talent is really unrealistic. All it takes is a small break in its uptime, or extra forced casts, for IF to be better, which is already the case in the vast majority of encounters. My guess with that tier is that they want to go for choice of talents that give m...

It will be perfectly viable still

The wierd thing about both fire and arcane is that they are very fight-specific specs (arcane much more so with fire's 4set), and so they are heavily balanced by fight mechanics. Arcane looks ridicolous on sims, but BRF fights look less Patcherk-y than HM, and on any fight but Butcher it is nowhere ...

Why would the MI change make frost worst? Doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me

The big issue when people say "SimC isn't including this!" is that they misunderstand exactly what SimC is doing. This is how it works: https://code.google.com/p/simulationcraft/wiki/FormulationVsSimulation" target="_blank Whatever clever interaction you think of (including syncing trinkets with maj...

I agree To be honest formatting and ordering things properly is one of the hardest things in writing a guide like this

Yeah it was, you confused me for a second. Running a quick sim shows it's not the case anymore

On Thermal Void, you might want to mention that you want to unglyph Icy Veins when running this talent.

Are you sure of this Ber?

Yep i'm pretty sure. Iirc it's better on the boss IF you can guarantee that icelance will always cleave on him, but that's pretty optimistic these days unfortunately, so might as well cast it on PC.

I ran a bunch of rough sims for all lvl 100 talents with reforge plots for haste, and there seems to be some kind of break point between ~500 and ~800 haste (the haste values for the hc and mythic profiles respecitvely). It's most definitely due to 4set for the most part. I ran these with Meteor, bu...