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Most likely flame patch dot will be made non stackable and since its DPS yield is lower by this change expect living bomb getting victimized with a nerf to make the talent row with 'more choices' This is the most reasonable way to go about nerfing it. If you use this profile for FS_FP play, http://...

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When you were doing your ABs per AM conversion, did you take into account that on the PTR the 12% dmg aura applies to AB but not AM?

What are those different haste ratings for? Just different conditions for getting certain cycles to fit inside of AP?

Frosted...You have eased my mind because I have been going over different talent situations in my head and I honestly am sooooo thankful you posted this. Question -This a single target priority? I loved using Barrage in my AOE (M+) rotation so I would tend to take Resonance in that scenario, also w...

Since we've actually gotten some tuning I went ahead and threw the sim at arcane talents. With Qking dead I think the standard burn/conserve rotation that the sim uses by default is more applicable now than it was on live (until legendary items come around and force us to re-think things). Results: ...

If you do the math on FoF gen for old FoF on Blizz vs. FO reduction, you get less FoF gen on single target with the FO reduction, but the FoF gen on >1 target scales much better (and the damage now too, since blizz ticks could also be considered partial FO ticks). I agree single target Blizzard isn'...

Aran's Relaxing Ruby has been a heavily sought after trinket since it was released. While strong, the proc rate has been debated over near constantly, especially for Fire vs Frost. The spelldata lists a value of 0.92rppm, however many people reported a much higher proc rate. Previously, I modeled th...

Trinket question. On the four target AOE trinket list, how is the empowered Deteriorated Construct Core simming for less DPS than the unempowered one?

Good question, I'm not sure. Will need to look into the profile when I get home I guess.

This post is garbage, go take this bleeding heart crap to bnet or reddit.

The current master branch of SimC (legion-dev) is missing a lot of mage PTR stuff, including the damage auras. The mage-legion-dev branch should be alright, but as far as I know, there are no executables available for download so you'll have to compile it yourself. I've been meaning to check if the...

Please don't go by what you "think" alone. Please sim or do actual testing to see which ones are better. For instance, my 865 Arcanocrystal with a socket is better than an 880 Ethereal Urn with a socket by 5k dps, and my 865 NST is only 1k dps behind that same Urn. All of this is also relative to y...

Imho the best way to implement this would be other stats also giving a % of crit, similar to how DH get parry out of crit. With the proper number balancing it could easily be done. I think this just makes the problem worse. We don't want to be tied to secondary stats in a world where higher ilvl it...

Updated trinket section of the op

I personally parse 90%+ on pretty much every boss as frost atm, which is telling me that the majority playing frost is very small, and even less got legendaries to back that up You don't need thousands of parses to see frost can back up what sisms show in real world. All you need is one guy, like t...

trinkets Suggested Trinkets I am not going to do sims for every trinket. I will suggest that Stat Sticks are king with this build. You're not creating enough actions for Proc Trinkets to always be thee best. As always sim your trinkets to confirm the best one for you. I suggest Arcanocrystal and Ni...

trinkets Suggested Trinkets I am not going to do sims for every trinket. I will suggest that Stat Sticks are king with this build. You're not creating enough actions for Proc Trinkets to always be thee best. As always sim your trinkets to confirm the best one for you. I suggest Arcanocrystal and Ni...

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AMR gearing strategy sims and SimC stat scaling are not doing the same sort of operation, so it's not surprising that they are giving you different results. I don't know exactly how the AMR sims work, but iirc they are doing a sort of broad approach to stat value. Generating scale weights for a var...

Current Frost APL doesn't use Blizzard without Arctic Gale even against multiple enemies. This should fix it: actions=counterspell,if=target.debuff.casting.react actions+=/ice_lance,if=buff.fingers_of_frost.react=0&prev_gcd.flurry actions+=/time_warp,if=(time=0&buff.bloodlust.down)|(buff.bloodlust....

Updated every section of the OP.