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Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:00 pm**

No conclusions or anything here. Need some reliable ET%'s to math it out.

However, this is basically the best gear profile for frost based off hitting 19.3k breakpoint then getting about 19k mastery as well. It's pitted against my scary (nobody is reacting to it well) idea of breaking 2pc and going for the maximum LB breakpoint of 28.4k.

Honestly, I think we're just seeing more of the same trends. No matter at what point we analyze, haste and mastery do consistent tradeoffs. It's sensitive to the ET%'s and I still don't think anyone is going to find a true answer.

I'm breaking 2pc and going max haste because I'm Akraen, no other reason really.

Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:00 pm**

I was in a flex run the other day rocking like 16k haste affter reading the thread about trying different reforging. I was then kicked from the flex because I was a bad player for wasting haste. I pointed them to this forum and IV and then was laughed at. I find it funny that other classes do not understand that there are mages out there that are trying to get every last little bit from their gear and spec.

I was doing more damage with the monster haste build. and I think I want to go back to be other be damned.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:47 am**

Next week I will be unleashed:

http://www.askmrrobot.com/wow/gear/cfa7 ... b34b6dc2fd" target="_blank

Yes that's a normal BBoY, my guild is slooooow.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:09 am**

That looks sick. I'm having to reforge into some more haste since the hunters in my guild will not run a spell haste pet

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:59 am**

That looks sick. I'm having to reforge into some more haste since the hunters in my guild will not run a spell haste pet

WHAT!? No spellhaste? Slap their faces and make them summon the pet

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 8:13 am**

Well you see their wolf matches the transmog. So they have the wolf out even though I bring the crit.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 10:38 am**

Well you see their wolf matches the transmog. So they have the wolf out even though I bring the crit.

Jesus Christ

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:59 pm**

Haha, if the raid leader don't make them change pet, there is something really wrong about that team =P /gquit

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:00 pm**

Well you see their wolf matches the transmog. So they have the wolf out even though I bring the crit.

Send them here. We will finish them.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:15 pm**

I can't run simc at work but curious what happens if this profile gets run, understanding full-well that the APL is wrong:

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Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:55 pm**

"wrong" probably isn't the right word for the Frost APL. Most def incomplete though.

Results:

Your profile"439k+/-352 dps
My profile (nowhere near as well geared): 455k+/- 421

I'd have to go through the APL a bit more, but at a really quick glance it doesn't look like it's even 2pc holding an FoF charge, so the difference is probably larger (unless I'm just misreading it and it is doing it)

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:34 pm**

I'd need it to be a 40-50k dps gap before I'd say 28k isn't worth it because of the other benefits.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:30 pm**

What other benefits? It's a significant DPS loss, even without the 2pc being in play.

Maybe I'll have some time tonight to add better 2pc camping into play to the frost APL. Lately I've been getting home right as raid starts though >.<

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:59 pm**

Because fights in SoO, particularly the tougher ones, are not single target and involve a lot of stutter casting and in cases like Thok, extra procs are godly. By all means, quantify those if you can - but a sim output isn't going to show them.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:16 pm**

Because fights in SoO, particularly the tougher ones, are not single target and involve a lot of stutter casting and in cases like Thok, extra procs are godly. By all means, quantify those if you can - but a sim output isn't going to show them.

You can get an idea by applying latency and using the movement models. I'll run them now.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:35 pm**

I wasn't aware SoO fights involved stutter casting since that can be almost entirely avoided with either ice floes or better positioning.

NT multidotting as frost really only applies to protectors and galakras at the current gear level (nazgrim and spoils adds die too fast) and frost NT is weeeeeaaak, plus you lose a ton of procs with NT ticks occuring so frequently if you were to stack wacky amounts of haste.

Fire doesn't multidot NT and frost shouldn't either. Mage sims aren't terribly accurate, but stacking haste is going to continue to produce inferior results as you go beyond reason with it. What is worse is people trying to follow the example of haste stacking and then wondering why their DPS sucks, deciding it must be the spec rather than their stacking of haste to ridiculous amounts.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:39 pm**

Because fights in SoO, particularly the tougher ones, are not single target and involve a lot of stutter casting and in cases like Thok, extra procs are godly. By all means, quantify those if you can - but a sim output isn't going to show them.
You can get an idea by applying latency and using the movement models. I'll run them now.

Try this one:

Spoiler:

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Also please try this one:

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The latter is a crit BiS profile.

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:42 pm**

wait I linked you the wrong ones

ok updated

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:37 pm**

You might want to consider doing that stuff by PM. You should be happy our moderators are temporarily absent :p

Interesting idea though, I wonder how far you are willing to go to make it work. It also makes me wonder what the stat weights for crit are for you in a 3 target fight..

Posted: **Wed Jun 04, 2014 10:12 pm**

You might want to consider doing that stuff by PM. You should be happy our moderators are temporarily absent :p

Interesting idea though, I wonder how far you are willing to go to make it work. It also makes me wonder what the stat weights for crit are for you in a 3 target fight..

I prefer an open dialogue for experimental theorycraft. Gives people an entrance point for further discussion if they have any ideas or criticisms.

Edit: However, spoilers tidy it up a lot!

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