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On the note of min/maxing crystal, what is the actual time of crystal?

It's obviously listed at 12 seconds, but experimenting with a weakaura that sets a timing bar it seems to be like 12.2-12.3ish seconds?

Wrote about it earlier: http://www.altered-time.com/forum/viewt ... 160#p21413" target="_blank

2285 should be crit cap

If you're doing a 40 second fixed_time sim, 250K iterations is nothing. Your variance is still way too high to make any meaningful judgements from the output, and it's not even good data because robomage will do a end-of-fight burn. You didn't include the distribution or sigma values in your screen...

Used as many data points as i could in as few plots as possible in 250k samples

You can enter commands in the Override tab in SimC in order to force it to do certain things which you cannot do with the built in drop down menus. One of these things is dictating fight length. Courtesy of Frosted, here are three commands which you can use to do so: vary_fight_length=0 fixed_time=...

Yes

It's ok to desync it for a few seconds but not having Sandmans kills your burst

Been meaning to ask does Warcraftlogs have official "in"s with blizzard or something? Has seemed super high and mighty.

Question is whether the gain to switching to mastery for PoF damage, which hits first doomfire, is enough to warrant recommending other mages regem/enchant mastery

It's not worth dropping a lot of haste to those levels unless your fight length is extremely short, which typically means well under a minute. Not that this is a thread about such things, let's not derail further. I just wanted to clarify. This is pertinent, we're talking about how much to gear for...

well this explains that one parse

So i was reading a 'why can't we skip 2nd doomfire' thread on reddit, and i was making the argument that mastery > haste for phase 1 burning, but couldn't back it up so i checked simcraft. What i found was quite shocking # Gear Summary # gear_ilvl=743.53 # gear_stamina=7056 # gear_intellect=5310 # g...

The original author also said using the macro possibly decreases the chance of it working - apparently the original version is to manually remove the glyph right as you use AP. Probably need a more consistent version for this to be useful, and it may just have to do with finding the right way to ma...

Tried it in Warspear, worked so tried to pug with it. Gave it a try twice in pugs, first time glyph didn't go away so i was stuck with 3 minutes APs, 2nd time glyph didn't go away and i still only had 15 second APs the first time. Edit: 3rd try same thing, 15 second AP, glyph stayed on and was stuck...

Interesting

Question: During bloodlust, Evocation appears to replenish 40% mana pools almost immediately. Is it better to drop mana below 50% at that time? I remember someone here or mmo suggesting to do that but I never saw that confirmed or denied. Something that occurred to me - isn't it better to rune of p...

Something that occurred to me - isn't it better to rune of power pretty much every fight since the ring burst is so much of our damage?

Even if it means recasting it 10 odd times?

I also have a sneaky suspicion that spamming AB > AM with PoF if you'll be mana capped at end of burn against one target

Guess i should clarify - im using troll racial/mythic class trinket/t12/t3+t17/crystal at -2 and move to boss to crystal opener. Even still it seems like going AB/AM seems optimal over AM spam at capped mana

This trick is used on the pull, and since on the pull mages usually get doom procs and often 2 or 3 arcane missiles, they will often be high on mana without the trick for the most part of Arcane Power, possibly making it less worth it to get a chance with it, possibly losing 1 second or 2 of Arcane...

Its been fixed, whenever you switch the stuff arcane power disappears. im talking about the 10% damage not the mana reduce, this one still works.

What 10% damage?

Just tried firehawk set again and it still works just fine - everything works like it has for months now