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Vers or Haste - go sim your stat wights and pick whichever comes out higher :) Not necessarily true. The stat weights that come out tell you how much dps one point of a stat is worth. Int has to be worth a pretty low amount or haste/vers a pretty high amount to make 375 food do more total dps over ...

I wouldn't worry too much about crit cap if you're sacrificing something like haste/vers in order to try and achieve it. At a certain point the odds of a un-shattered IL vs the cost of losing raw dmg increases like vers sort of win out and you don't worry as much about 33%. I would agree with the co...

Ok. I checked your Goroth normal kill and overall it looks ok. You only had 60 procs that could give you a shatter IL yet you casted 69 ILs. I'm guessing they were maybe for movement or when the procs of FoF were flowing in and you hit it one too many times so a non shatter IL casted. You're running...

Your stat weights on armory look perfectly fine. The 33% shatter cap helps but if you had to drop to 31% crit to gain a bunch more haste and vers it likely would be worth it, so just keep that in mind. Simming yourself is going to be the way to get your stat weights, but I'd suspect with where you a...

In the blue posts and in the Q&A with Ion where they talked about the Crucible. You can't get the same trait on the tier 3 if it already exists on the base relic.

Ok. You're casting WAAAAYYY too many icelances. You had 89 total chances to shatter an IL but casted 111 Icelances. Position yourself better in anticipation of movement or save some FoF charges when you know you may have movement coming up. You're using Ice Floes which is fine, but if you can save p...

If I had a specific question, I would have asked it. In truth my guild is asking members to parse higher. I raised them quite a bit this week ( orange parse on Goroth and Sisters... well, now that one is purple after a few hours) and feel like I do well depending on procs, but I just wanted to know...

fire on DI is purely cheese, they have a ton of people go down and come up at the same time and pop all CDS on the adds. There's also the fact that ignite cleaving to the other boss doesn't give your torment but if you hit them with an IL via SI you get torment. So Fire can freely go ham and if the...

You can post your logs here and we can take a look. If there's a particular fight in them you're concerned about.

Just on a per what you get choice I'd stay with the 915 because of how good Frozen Veins is but that's just me. All the shadow/light traits are pretty close to each other after the changes yesterday so I don't think that should be a deciding factor. Just my 2 cents.

Oh yay. We went from a slight bit of difference between all 3 specs to now the "best" all being the same. Though them all being this stupid close to each other shows blizzard probably adjusted appropriately. I doubt any of these become extreme outliers under Frosted's sim settings, given where they ...

Jezrien is right. Most mages aren't shimmerlancing outside of the opener and even then it depends on mechanics that could occur after the boss is pulled. Most likely aren't using shimmer for that more during the fight because of wanting both charges for mechanics.

You can compete at a heroic level and some would say a non world first Mythic level as well with any Mage spec. Just play what you enjoy most. As for least required legendaries to do well, I would give that to Frost still. Arcane benefits more from the legendaries it does get while Frost can remain ...

Unless something has changed that I am unaware of, LB on a single, or even two targets, is a DPS loss. Especially during combustion, every global used during combustion should help you get more pyroblasts out during its duration. Fight lengths also have a huge impact on rankings. For ST a shorter f...

Happy to help and it's not a problem. I just try and point it out when I see it to not link a non-kill log. I hope my explanation of why linking one isn't as helpful and good luck on killing the boss!

Are you using the nightly build on raidbots? Also if you're using simcraft the program and raidbots and they give you drastically different results you're likely doing something incorrect on one of them. Using raidbots just make sure to choose the nightly build under the simulationcraft options sec...

Hey, i read through the post and have to point out that your group is heavy important on what setup is most suited, when in doubt go single target. Next is affixes like bursting where you cant go all out on aoe without Killing the group. The next thing is the orb affix where you have to switch a lo...

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/Y1QD7VgLF6hjM3fr/#type=damage-done&fight=26&source=10 This was my "best" pull on Avatar this evening. We had another mage in the group with me at least 10 item levels lower, and pushing the same dps. I had a look at my logs in comparrison to his and noticed the ...

Are you using the nightly build on raidbots? Also if you're using simcraft the program and raidbots and they give you drastically different results you're likely doing something incorrect on one of them. Using raidbots just make sure to choose the nightly build under the simulationcraft options sect...

Ah ok, i was wondering about that cause it kept telling me to compare another set of gear so i was like w/e. lol There's lots of cool features you can do with Raidbots but the one you'll probably use the most is the stat weights one which just requires your info from in game and will give you stat ...