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What extra talent do you use with the legendary ring?

You would take Splitting Ice if you're using the Archmage ring since that gives you Frozen Touch for free. Honestly even if you're not using the Archmage ring you should take SI.

The reply was literally above yours. Yup. I disregarded your reply and posted my own just to spite you. /s It was a mistake and I didn't see the previous post. I'll compare our answers and delete mine so as not to offend your internet sensibilities. It isn't worth holding Ice Lance procs for Incant...

Icy-veins or wowhead doesn't have anything? Not sure where else would have something if they don't. An easy thing to find on logs is how many shatter ILs you should have had vs how many IL casts you did. If you click on yourself in the dmg breakdown, then go to dmg done, you will see how many IL cas...

A second of typing "how to read warcraft logs" into youtube resulted in this: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+read+warcraft+logs&page=&utm_source=opensearch Have fun. I've personally watched the Preach Gaming video on it and think he does a pretty good job of explaining it but th...

Are the sims for shard of exodar showing two lusts over the fight duration or three?

Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it the Sims are assuming lust on pull and then a lust again before the fight is over.

Not sure where else this fits in but since it's mentioned here. Does anyone know why we get pushed to dead side for completely immuning spear but Hunters and Rogues both don't go to dead side for immuning?

i avg about 1.5 to 2 milliom on goroth and demonic inqusition thats why im feeling real shit about my dps on kiljaden °~° Ok. I was trying to find a simpler fight for an easier analysis. It's hard to tell on KJ because of how the fight plays out and all the downtime. I'll see if I can find the last...

I'm doing my rotation perfectly im following all of the mechanics but my dps is just pretty shit. Any suggestions? https://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/area-52/deathgripzz Two things. There's a help section for these types of questions. Second, if you were doing your rotation perfectly and fol...

happy to report the shatter did wonders! My dps for harjatan was a steady 1mil and dropped to 900k but was so much better!

That's awesome! Congratulations!!

For AOE how do you handle "Bursting" it seems like we don't see it too often but I've seen it at least once in the last few months and the ele shaman in the group could not control his AOE. You either don't pull giant packs or you don't immediately start blowing up the giant pack that is pulled. It...

If you are looking at just yourself and you go to the buffs tab you can see all the buffs you've had over a fight. Brain Freeze and FoF count as buffs. I took the total of those two to come up with the 87 chances as a BF proc should be followed by an IL to shatter it and of course the FoF procs all ...

Thank you very much for taking the time to look that over and give such a well thought out answer! I do have other legendary items, including Prydaz. The way I'm equipped now is to a.) keep my T20 4 piece set bonus, and b.) to keep me at the 33.34% shatter cap. My hope is that as I get more epic dr...

So I started playing WoW during the WOTLK era, and after that took a break until just after Legion came out. After that time I thought I knew my stuff...I have a high item level, my stats are well balanced (I think), I sim myself frequently, and I've studied a lot about opening sequence, rotations,...

I am asking how much dps loss do others consider acceptable in favor for other factors like survivability. It's a personal preference thing and I'd wager most on this forum are for min/maxing, which means a 5k dps loss is still a dps loss so don't switch gear. Even though a 5k dps loss when you're ...

Thank you, will try to remember that for the ebonbolt and flurry...I don't think i honestly give flurry much of a thought which is a big mistake on my part. Also thanks for noting the pot, I potted some of the fights but not all...thanks to a tank that doesn't know dbm pull numbers and just goes......

Yeah you look to be doing fine for 910 ilvl (what you were in the heroic goroth kill). It's hard to compare yourself to guildies who don't play the same class as you for starters AND have 10 to 15 ilvls on you. That makes a pretty drastic difference from fight to fight. Ok cool. Im just kind of one...

Thanks for taking the time to point a few things out. The opener you said is the same opener my guildie told me so that's not an issue there. Also I don't believe I casted Time Warp in that fight but it could be possible. I do have a tendency to forget that I have a second blood lust at my disposal...

So for starters I'm using your sisters normal kill. It's not pure ST but it's pretty close. You have gloves and shard in this parse. 1. Your crit is really really really low. At 916 ilvl I would hope you'd be closer to the shatter cap of 33.34%. That's likely a large reason for your low dmg so if th...

So I'm at work but just a quick glance I found a few things that stand out. I am using your Goroth Heroic kill for reference as that fight at least has more mechanics than normal so there's the chance for more forced movement that you have to adjust to while DPSing. 1. You're using FT over SI. You c...

1. One question I did have that I forgot to include in my original post was should I be using the BF proc from Ebonbolt to shatter itself every time? I've been going using the proc from EB to shatter a FB immediatly after for the IV cd reduction. My opener usually goes Pre-pot, pre-cast Ebonbolt, I...