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I'm sitting at an average ilvl of 331 with crit on each piece of gear except for weapon/pants/trinkets. I have 21.06% crit right now. I could see that climbing to 26%-27% with the addition of weapons/pants/trinket from uldir and heroic uldir upgrades. But definitely not 33%, that's probably going to...

I have a feeling its so that they can get a forced crit on fb and bring up their IV that much quicker. With the crucible and good luck on relics, it's possible to get 3-3.5 sec cd reduction time per fb crit. I myself am sitting on 6 ranks of it right now and its super nice to have it on a 1:10 to 1:...

Mod edit: Moved to Q&A So I have a question about relic upgrading. I have a 915 Ice Age (+Flurry dmg) relic that I am thinking about replacing with a 930 Shield of Alodi (+Ice barrier) relic. The pure replace will net me +5 ilvl as well as swapping the traits. Here is the comparison in the netherli...

I have seen a number of people posting around the internets that you should always prioritize brain freeze procs over ice lance. That seems intuitively wrong to me as you're giving up anywhere between 1.4 to 2.5 million free, instant cast damage (depending on if IV is up, stacks of bracers, and stac...

This is one area where sims actually do a really good job. Change the piece out and SIM the result.

So just swap out the gear to break the bonus, log out, and run Simulationcraft? Man, if its that easy, then thanks!

Hi all, long time mage player (since vanilla) and former hardcore raider (Midwinter) but first time poster! I took a break at the start of pandaland and came back about a month before Legion and I am wondering when is the best time to break the Nighthold set bonus, maybe even set bonuses in Legion i...