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1) If you don't have 3 stacks of AM yeah, below 70% mana you should just AB. This allows you to sync your evo better with all your other cooldowns 2) If you have 3 stacks of AM and you are like at 1 or 2 arcane charges, yes you should AM. Otherwise i believe you want to AB. Never ever ever AM at low...

With that amount of haste you can fit in 3 pyros instead of 2 assuming pyro procced from an instant like IB, certainly not 4 or 5. That's calculated with full raid buffs since it's all that really matters; you need to have ~13-14% total haste, and which comes down to about 800-900 haste. The precise...

Yes, it's dps neutral or a loss. I wouldn't take LB for Flamebender because the adds aren't alive for very long and they aren't that close to each other. Maybe Mythic is different (i haven't run it yet), but i doubt it.

That would have made 4the set absolutely terrible, and potentially even a dps loss at least for the first proc on pull. Combustion with trinkets+ring+tw is absolutely huge for fire st.

Just wondering, is LB a dps loss even after the haste buff?

Sims done! It appears that the breakpoint is worth gearing for. These are the scaling plots for the default heroic and mythic profiles, which have respectively 674 haste rating, or 12.86% haste raid buffed, and 773, or 14.02% haste raid buffed: http://i.imgur.com/rXkiUkh.png http://i.imgur.com/mjIG4...

Just wondering, how would i do that in simcraft? Enable plots > check say mastery, haste and crit?

I'm re-running those sims right now, i'll do it for all the stats as soon as these complete

If you want to be certain about haste value, you'll want to make a scaling stat plot instead of just computing scaling factors. That way, you will be able to see if it's a bump in the line (ie. breakpoint") or actually genuine scaling strength. I wouldn't be surprised if haste is among the stronges...

Keep in mind my sims were really really rough (not enough iterations), and they were done before the 4set nerf. I can rerun them; i guess the APL has been updated?

So essentially with AO/NT, when burning you want to keep AO on cd and Abar before casting it to cleave as much as possible?

Fire particularly seems to be very comp-dependant in the amount of damage it does. The last time we had a fairly bad cleave comp on Darmac i had a pretty obscene log (51k dps compared to 35-40 i normally get), while still topping boss damage done.

The way those are done is with the "automation" tab under import. The Simcraft online documentation has good explanations for it iirc

Great post

Re: haste and 4piece

This is a really strong breakpoint, and for some gear sets it can be your strongest stat, even above mastery and crit in some situations, as shown by these few posts: http://altered-time.com/forum/viewtopic ... =40#p10906" target="_blank

Having played a mage for so long (started in 1.12), at this point respeccing for me is fairly easy. I initially have a few pulls where i mess up because my muscle memory isn't there or i need to adapt to new things, but then it's just smooth sailing.

I guess i'm lucky like that

Haste does strange stuff with 4piece, but it's not worth worrying about; i got some similar whacky sim results a while ago, but it feels really situational and not something you can realistically go after: http://altered-time.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=750&start=40#p10906" target="_blank. Just st...

I delay my PC/AP until the wolves are dead, unless the one in melee has higher hp in which case i just help bursting it down. It may not be optimal for boss damage, but it really helps in actually killing the boss and that's all that matters.

Yeah, you need to let the explosions go off on the adds before spreading again. If you don't do it, the dot will be refreshed on the adds but LB will only explode on the boss.

1) Evo Pre-pull is a dps loss because it means you can't go into a burn phase during AP/PC
2) You can't burn without evocation off cd, 2p simply makes your conserve phase stronger
3) 4p doesn't change your rotation, cast AM at 4 AC stacks wether you have the proc or not.

http://altered-time.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=749" target="_blank this has updated sims (assuming 4set). Without 4set iirc CmS is about as good as PC

Are these results with or without 4set?