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Just tested on PTR. Set bonus lasted the full 18 seconds on my toon. (4 traits, 2 relics and 2p) So, how much does this increase the value of the combustion trait? I know my current prio is still: pyro dmg, ignite dmg, fireblast dmg, combustion time, but will the increase of the dmg boost also bump...

As me and Potaetoe mentioned Koralon's is very noob-friendly legendary and since legendary upgrades going quite fast (you will have like 3-5 moment you enter mythic) you can go for Koralon's first because: 1. As I mentioned already it's noob friendly so it's hard to mess up (for example mages in my ...

thank you for your quick reply. It warms my heart to read that i only miss about 75k due to fails :) That's not how it works :) Sims doesnt do any mechanics just stay still and fight so whenever you move slightly you already are supposed to do less damage than patchwerk sim. On the other hand sim n...

I like conclusions from your post, unfortunatelly I can't really help you because I'm mostly Mythic raider and don't put much interest into normal / heroic raiding, although can try to point out some things. According to current sims data we may be switching legendaries a lot, and since they vary a ...

infernal core and bindings the new go to?! Remember all this sims are patchwerk, there is no such a thing in this instance. Legendaries should be switched according to fight prob. I'd say Pyrotex will be used mostly because they are not bad on single target and skyrocket to the top on 2+ fights and...

Things like that will always be a DPS gain unless you sit on full stacks or miss them for Combustion or any other burst phase.

Ofc it will, point was to use IF stacks and time burst around it. There is difference because single EB hits harder than IL and you always fire it @ 5 IF stacks if possible. If you can't dump all FoF stacks for Flurry -> IL combo, and you do as I said (FB -> Orb -> EB) you will always fire EB at 5 I...

Learn frost/arcane with fire. but only pick one as a main spec to level and after you reach 90% parse you level the other one. I would really not agree on that. As far as I know Fire and Arcane are comparable. Id say either learn Fire AND Frost because they vary a lot, or if you wanna be good at ev...

Do we still precast Ebonbolt with T20 Twopiece? Or use Frostbolt into Orb and then ebonbolt during the buff? I found better results doing the second option. prepot->frostbolt->frozen orb->icy veins->spend procs->ebonbolt->flurry hmm I find that using EB -> Flurry -> IL is close to impossible during...

That's prob because if you have nicely procced pieces of T19 it's still BiS. It's very hard to tell because not everyone get 925 T19 piece, that's why some sims may tell you that Head is better than 6 PC but if you get nicely procced T19 pieces it will be different for you and head will fall behind ...

You have maybe the Simcrafts with Glacial Spike again? when i Look now its TV Sim´s Yeah well I only ment to take % of GS dmg out of total damage without putting number out of the hat, but I do agree link is outdated. But if you sim urself for ST Patchwerk GS should be around 30-35% of your damage ...

Crit to shatter cap (33.34%) > Vers ~= Haste ~= Int > Mastery I'd argue with that. Mastery weight will be reduced by ur scalling things so: ~7% Versa ratio (less versa you have, less mastery will loose value) ~3.3% Chilled to the core - (not sure here?) ~10% Frigidity of the Tirisgarde and 20% * su...

Not sure how you got the numbers you did. But this part .... 3 Corrupted: FB + FB + GS 7 sec = 1000 + 400 + 36 = 1436 % SP (normalized to 10sec - 2051 ) Are you not taking into account the time to cast the 3 frostbolts that generated the 0 value icicles? Because you don't do it. When you have Corru...

Also I don't think it's 20% DPS loss either, id even boldly say that it can be DPS gain, using very napkin math: GS: 3 sec cast + 1000 SP FB: 2 sec cast 204 SP Icicles: 18% of FB with 0 mastery Normal rotation: FB + FB + FB + FB + FB + GS 13 sec = 1000 + 1000 + 180 = 2180 % SP (normalized to 10 sec ...

If I understood Zulandia correctly high haste scenario won't "corrupt" your icicles for long, only will fire it with next cast so you don't have to track it because you can't do anything with that that will result in dps gain. The only terrible scenario is when your target disappear between firing F...

Thanks a lot Zulandia that clarifies a lot!

Lavok if you track icicles you can see that you have more than 0 after casting GS Since there is delay depending on range from the target, between getting icicles and doing damage WeakAura would be hard to track it

The GS Guide thread has a lego sim list in it and Helm/Shard are top with 6PC T19/T20 plus Shard/Bracers simming very close to it.

How can you get 6 PC with legendary Helm?

I have a question, I'm not sure if I'm missing something or experiencing a bug but sometimes I'm stucked on some Icicles after firing GS. I use to run VoTW and for some times I kept getting 3 or 4 icicles after GS (or more like loosing only 2-1 because buff did not disappear for a second) . At some ...

Does this also mean (if one goes for the GS built) that besides gloves bracers als lose value? Since you won't be lancing as much as you would while using the TV built? You have to sim your self. Shard is still BiS regardless, But I've seen people have success with Shard/Kil'jeaden, Shard/Magtherid...

I don't get it..From 10 to 30.... not 15 not even 20 but straight to 30? was it so OP? I think this will be lowered. It was mentioned before that it's the way blizzard is balancing things. Nerf to the ground, then buff slowly to reach certain power level. First version was prob just random number t...