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6 seconds is between 4-5 gcd's and if you pre cast MoA and RoP, you can still get a lot of work done in that 6 second window. Much better than a free "charged up" talent.

My guess would be that because in 10,000 iterations, being that close to crit cap will yield extremely good results still. I would expect that if you actually got to crit cap what you would see is the shape of the dps graph tighten up and be more consistent.

Perhaps look at the sample sequence table after your sim to watch mana percentages and see if it matches what you are doing on live. Might be easier than interpreting the entire APL.

Did you use the askmrrobot sim to get those results? If so I think there is something wrong with it. I was looking at it myself last night and when I excluded all previous tiers except ToS it still didn't suggest that I equip T20.

I would advise learning how to use simcraft.

Did any of you adjust your spell queue latency thing that people had to do to get double IL to work? (sorry can't remember the cvar off the top of my head)

I feel like the t20 2pc just isn't very good without the 4 pc. Mostly because PoM has a 60 second cooldown and AP has a 90 second cooldown. Not sure what the math on this is, but you need essentially 4 AM procs every 45 seconds to reduce the CD of PoM enough to get an extra activation in between eac...

I think they have done it the way it is for a reason. That being, balancing. It's a lot easier for them to balance encounters around assuming everyone has at least one rank of concordance. Also if it was a flat amount to gain the next rank some people would have a ton more than others which presents...

Things they could have done to the mage class hall mount that would have made it not a complete disaster: 1) Allow us to use it in our order hall. Like they showed in the cinematic when you get it! 2) Its a flying disc. They could have given it water strider treatment and allowed us to glide over wa...

Did you test t20 4 set at all? or just t19, and 2+2. I believe the simple fact that it will be easier to obtain high ilvl t20 pieces will outweigh any potential benefits of using old tier with perhaps the exception of some ridiculously titanforged gear obtained in the future from farming old content.

I would suggest a target runeseer counterspell macro as well, last thing you want is to be explosioning accidentally target jarl and CS him instead of runeseer. Not sure what the point of your focus arcane blast macro is, as you focused sigryn for polymorph.

my best suggestion would be make 2 gear sets that swap your shard and your KJ. Most boss fights in Mythic, you either A) don't need aoe, or B) don't need two lusts. It's more important having one lust for every boss fight if possible (some dungeons don't allow it due to boss spacing). As an example,...

1. MoA->RoP->AP-> burn 2. MoA->RoP 3. RoP whenever you have 2-3 missle stacks and enough mana to burn further till RoP expires Thats not entirely accurate. As doing so can leave you in a position where you don't have one for AP or MoA. It works after you pair MoA with AP, you essentially get one fo...

You are suggesting shield shield shield, yet also saying shimmer here and there. Aren't both of those talents on the same row?

Another thing you can do for rotational help is sim your character. After you have run the sim, scroll down to where it says Action Priority list and click that tab. A bunch of stuff will pop up and scroll down to the bottom of that and there is another tab you can click called "Sample sequence tabl...

I think it could be interesting if they added a buff or a hidden effect that after we cast arcane explosion we get considered melee for a short amount of time. Say 6 seconds? This would allow us to help out with melee mechanics if needed, providing we hit AE once every 6 seconds. It also wouldn't tu...

Would it be possible to set a damage threshold on when the sound procs?

ie any ice lance that's around 500k or lower would have not benefited from the shatter effect.

What makes Arcanocrystal so good is that it is Overbudgeted. You are not wrong that Padawsen's has int on it, and that is good... but does it have enough? ( Pawn: v1: "Tipsey": Class=Mage, Spec=Arcane, Intellect=15.66, SpellPower=14.67, CritRating=14.51, HasteRating=13.68, MasteryRating=13.83, Versa...

Unless things have changed, I would advise against nochanneling macros. I believe you literally have to wait until the entire channel is done to queue your next spell, which over the course of the fight adds up to a lot of split seconds lost and ultimately yields lower dps. As a previous poster sugg...

I think you are putting too much stock into having AP and Evo Synced. Or perhaps I have become too reliant on my kilt. If you are using overpowered you can definitely get a full AP burn with around 30% mana. Arcane is all about mana management, and sure having evo up after a full AP burn is a nice q...

Curious what other Kilt-owners would choose for a second legendary from a pool of Cord of Infinity, Sephuz's Secret, Belo'vir's Final Stand, and Prydaz. Of those options I would choose either sephuz or prydaz depending on the opportunity to proc sephuz. If there is a ton of spike damage in the enco...