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I patched my SimC with the hotfixes before it got into the current nightly version, so I had the opportunity to run some tests and dumping all FoF before Flurry was a gain for me (even if you were already casting Frostbolt). It was also a gain not to do the full combo (Frostbolt -> Flurry -> IL) whe...

GS absolutely works with Shatter. Make sure you're checking GS damage vs Winter's Chill application, since WC is applied slightly after first Flurry bolt hits.

So you cast FB w/ brain freeze, with the intent to fire off BF followed by IL. BUT, your previous FB that was flying procs a FoF, so you are mid-cast with the intent to BF>IL, but now you have the FoF proc. Do you munch the FoF proc? Or do you burn the BF procs first? Frostbolt generates procs when...

You can poke around the source code to confirm that's how it's done. "Why dont they just do without it altogether?" is a weird question. How else would you do this? You're basically trying to find the derivative of a function f(x) = "DPS with x amount of stat" and to do that for a function like this...

Nah, Metronome and Whispers are also the best trinkets for fire and arcane. But the difference between them and the damage proc trinkets (Star Gate and Fury of the Burning Sky for fire, Star Gate for arcane) is definitely bigger on our side.

hey guys, just checking if anyone else is experiencing the same thing about shatter cap. The shatter cap is 33.33%~33.34%, however, it seems that sims devalues crit slightly before the cap. Specifically around 31.XX% I havent been able to figure out the exact figure but im wondering if anyone else ...

The legendary trinket is actually not affected by any paragon trait. It only works with target-based modifiers such as Colossus Smash. It's not that bad this tier, as some of the best trinkets don't care about your paragon level (Metronome, Whispers). But yes, going forward, I'd like to see paragon ...

Yeah, you're not hitting 2 Frostbolts into Water Jet.

Water Jet is kinda hard to use on some bosses, especially Krosus. Do you have any logs we could check?

You absolutely don't want to delay Icy Veins.

And all RPPM stuff is reset at the start of the fight as if it just proced (i.e. time since last proc is set to 0 and time since last proc attempt is set to 0 as well), so procs are not more likely to happen at the start of the fight.

GCD cannot go below 0.75, which happens at 100% haste. If you add more haste after that, it does nothing to your instant cast spells. Frostbolt stops benefiting from haste at 166.7% (at that point, cast time = GCD). However, you don't spend most of the fight GCD capped, so it's not enough to just ma...

Why does Zann's+AG sim lower than Zann's alone?

With AG, the APL casts Blizzard on cooldown and that can be a DPS loss for some profiles (like the NH mythic profile used to generate these numbers).

Incanter's Flow is applied when the spell lands (for basically all Frost spells) or when the cast is finished (for Arcane/Fire).

Change this APL line to

As usual, sim for yourself. I'm getting slightly different results.



BC/IF/FT/x/TV, only legendary is the belt.

You still use it on CD against 2+ targets. Not sure about the second question, probably not, but sim for yourself since AG Blizzard is sometimes worth it on single target, sometimes not.

If everything happens faster, you do better DPS (or rather: damage per real-world seconds). That's the point of these buffs.

Say you're on a boss with 5 minute enrage timer. If you had the option to do all damage over the 5 minutes in 2.5 minutes, you'd surely take it.

I haven't used Ray of Frost on those fights, but I assume you mean that the 10 sec RoF buff runs out faster than 10 (actual, real world) seconds. Because then that's intended; the time stuff isn't just a haste buff.

It includes 2.

Blizzard is worth using on 2+ targets even without Arctic Gale. Against a single target, the cooldown reduction is not strong enough (if you have AG, it depends, sim for yourself to be sure).

When you reach 4 targets, you want to cast Blizzard as close to cooldown as possible.