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So for starters, it's not just you btw, but people's obsession with linking pulls and commenting about how they parsed is just silly. You can't determine how you parsed unless you kill the boss. The Rankings tab of warcraftlogs doesn't even work if you don't actually kill the boss. Also full fights ...

I didn't say always do it or keep frostbolting if you get a BF proc. If you only have 1 FoF proc and are sitting at 1 IF stack there's literally no reason to fire off the FoF charge. Even if you just threw out frozen orb you can wait until you get to 3 FoF charges before launching an IL. There is a...

You don't have to use frostbolt before expending FoF procs, but what you can do is if you're only at 1 FoF charge or 2, you can fish for another proc with frostbolt casts while waiting for your Incanter's flow stack to get closer to 5 before you consume the FoF procs. That's assuming that the buff ...

You don't have to use frostbolt before expending FoF procs, but what you can do is if you're only at 1 FoF charge or 2, you can fish for another proc with frostbolt casts while waiting for your Incanter's flow stack to get closer to 5 before you consume the FoF procs. That's assuming that the buff t...

There isn't a secret. It's RNG. Each tick of it while it's out has a chance to give you a FoF charge. That's it. You can't game RNG.

Did you by chance catch what ilvl those top frost mages were when they logged what they did? They're likely close to, if not already, 930+ ilvl which would account for at least the intellect difference. As for dmg, could be they have better legos than you or they're doing something different. It wou...

I can't see your stats and you didn't link an armory so I'm not sure if you're at shatter cap or not. If you're at shatter cap the biggest difference between my pull on gorath and yours is that you aren't shattering your ebonbolt with the free flurry you get. Flurry travels faster than Ebonbolt so i...

For starters, linking a log where you actually kill the boss would be helpful. Getting rankings is something that can only be done on a fight where you actually kill the boss so there must be a log somewhere that is a boss kill. Those are better to analyze because fight length plays a measure in how...

Straight up, my 890 T19 4p+915 T20 2p is beating my 915 T20 4p+890 T19 2p. Thats 25 ilvls. Wtf is going on. I have bracrer and belt. Im stunned that "ask mr Robot" is ignoring this 915 T20 4p bonus entirely and keeps putting my 890 T19 set as "best in bag". What a mess... Try Raidbots.com instead. ...

I get my legendary brazzers today so one question: I must keep 6 stacks up in entire fight, even if i dotn got flurry or ice lance proc ready? You posted this in one of the other threads as well and I replied to you there already but just for the sake of covering our bases. You don't want to cast u...

I get my legendary brazzers today so one question: I must keep 6 stacks up in entire fight, even if i dotn got flurry or ice lance proc ready? The post above yours is my answer to someone else who asked the same thing..... You do not want to cast unempowered Ice lances just for the sake of keeping ...

The issue with blizzard is that if they make too many changes the possibility that frost will not be viable at all. I remember when fire was really strong, maybe it was because of xavius padding but all i know on ST i was on top of the charts. So pretty sure it wasn't just the padding. See what hap...

Hello, Guys I have short question about legendary bracers buff. Do you casting "raw" ice lance (without fingers of frost proc) when you got 6 stacks legendary bracers buff and it's going to expire? Is it worth casting that one low dmg ice lance instead building 6 stacks again? Or you just doesn't t...

I keep thinking to myself "maybe i'll get fire legos and swap back to fire come later into T20 or T21 maybe". Then I read it's still in an awkward and shitty place and wonder why I bother with those thoughts. I am geared for frost and started as fire in legion. Never got one of the good fire legos t...

Boss: Kil'jaden Difficulty: All Difficulties Spec: All specs Tip: During http://www.wowhead.com/spell=240910/armageddon , you can use http://www.wowhead.com/spell=46604/ice-block to soak even the large ones solo without picking up a debuff. If you need to soak a second time before the cool down has...

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 sta...

I've seen quite a lot of different opinions on the last 2 pages. Like people suggesting not to shatter ebonbolt and similar stuff. Everyone can try to be a hero on forums, but do you guys have proof those rotations and strategies work? I'd like to see some logs that prove these theories. Especially...

Currently I don't think so now that they "fixed" GS. They're both still pretty close in numbers, but TV is definitely slightly ahead (and easier to play). I would agree. I've found the same. I actually sim 20k lower now on GS where as before their "fix" I was 20k higher with GS and proper gear. Fee...

I've been retracing some replies here and I wanted to add some input to the opener with T20. Sims are pretty funky when it comes to pre-combat so it's not easy to find the best way to do an opener. I've been doing this: Frostbolt -> IV (during travel time) -> FO -> Frostbolt (during Frozen Orb trav...

Will do. I wasn't sure if Simming takes into account set bonuses.

Sims wouldn't be worth it if they didn't properly account for set bonuses. So yes, sim away without fear.