What is Rawr
Rawr is a modular program designed to load your character stats from the armory and advise on upgrades by calculating what change in your DPS each piece of kit would make. The Enhancement module Rawr.Enhance does this calculation for Enhancement Shaman.

I've also added an Export to EnhSim option to Rawr.Enhance so you can create custom kit setups test the dps results in Rawr and export to EnhSim to get very detailed breakdown of your stats for those that demand extremely detailed analysis.

Using Rawr

1) Unzip Rawr v2.X.Y to a directory you have write access to - in Vista this will NOT be c:\program files. If you have Vista or Windows 7 I'd suggest c:\users\YourUserName\Rawr v2.X.Y

2) Run Rawr

3) Use the Load from Armoury option and load your character

4) view the charts to see what items would be upgrades, NB. you can use the filter options to filter out content you are unable to do (eg: T9 Heroic perhaps) or content that is too low level (eg: non-heroic instances)

5) mark gear you have available (eg: in bags/bank as well as equipped) this puts a little green diamond next to the item, and any alternative gemming of that item.

6) Run the optimiser to select from the marked gear and built a best in slot set from that gear. Rawr will regem/reenchant to get the best possible dps from the items/gems/enchants marked as available. NB. if you wish you can mark items with a blue diamond to say that this one shouldn't have its gems/enchants changed.

7) View your character in 3d for fun.

You can watch a video of how to make the most of Rawr on youtube.

Download Links

Main Rawr Website for instructions and usage. Download of Rawr main application : v2.3.5 release

Rawr.Enhance.zip - extract to Rawr directory overwriting existing files

For clarity - Download the main application, then download the zip file and extract the files to your Rawr directory overwriting the existing files with the newer versions. Then and only then run the application and confirm the version number on the splash screen and on the Enhancement module page (see graphic below) matches the latest version.

NB. If you wish to report any issues please scroll down the stats window until you see the version number, you MUST quote this on any reports you give.

Picture shows how to find the version number.

Version History

Version 2.2.27.25495
                     Fixed issue with graph option moved to another tab not being bound to actions
                     EnhSim export now recommends v1.9.1.2 or higher.

Version 2.2.27.20990
                     Add support for Boss Handler multiple targets - implemented for Magma totem dps so far
                     Rework options panel moving graph to another tab and deleting fire totems options (now based on priority ticks)
                     Tweaks on option panel - fight length wasn't updating right.
                     Change Hide Professions to use global setting
                     Added Disable All Buffs option to tools menu
                     Added display of Professions to Main Form
                     Unique gems now show in list with zero value if they would disable other gems. This allows selecting a new unique gem without having to disable it in the other slot first
                     Fix bug where health from buffs wasn't being counted.
                     Add default mixology buff on Flask of Endless Rage if Alchemist

Version 2.2.27.29872 - Fixed BossHandler
                     Added initial support for Fire Nova & Fire Elemental - doesn't affect dps at present.
                     Fixed bug where BossHandler changes weren't doing anything.

Version 2.2.27.29943 - Base model new features
                     Preview release for Enhancement Shaman. New Rawr base that includes ability to view your character in animated 3d wearing whatever you equip in Rawr. So if you download Wowhead PTR data you can view your character in Icecrown gear today.

Version 2.2.27.19991 - Hit Rating Fix
                     MAJOR breakthrough - I finally managed to identify the issue with hit rating. It was in the white damage dps section. I was inaccurately taking the total white damage (hits+crits+glances) and adjusting it for the miss rate. Crit and glancing damage shouldn't be affected. This was making hit rating appear to make a bigger influence on damage than it should have. Note its only a minor change in total dps but it's enough for hit rating to drop down below AP & Haste as has been seen in EnhSim.

Version 2.2.27 - New General Release
                     Fix for invalid WF calc that allowed fast MH weapons to appear good
                     Fix for magma totem not always 100% uptime.
                     Fix minor display issue for Magma totem hit/crit percentages.
                     Added Fire Totem Uptime display
                     Tweak to WF proc rate to bring it more into line with EnhSim outputs
                     Added Black Magic Enchant (the patch 3.3 haste variant as the old one is poor)

Version 2.2.26.20398 - Special Release to fix WF issue
                     Fix for WF issue showing fast MHs as good

Version 2.2.26 - New General Release
                     Revised GCD interference model - no longer use unstable priority system
                     Added optional filter on professions so that enchants for professions you don't have don't show up
                     Added Option to view your character in 3D.
                     Implemented T10 bonuses
                     Added display of T10 set bonus uptimes
                     Tweaks to ED uptime calcs
                     Small tweaks to flurry calcs
                     Implemented independent uptime displays for MH & OH Enchants
                     Changed WF to use a stationary distribution model - NB. This is the change reverted for v2.2.27
                     Added extra uptime stats and tweaked special effect trigger conditions
                     Added Average AP & Average SP display to front panel tooltips.
                     Modified abilities to have some GCD interference chances
                     Added gemming templates that don't respect socket colour
                     Modified LS spellpower co-efficient
                     Fixed WF PPM display
                     Fixed Feral Spirits crit rate
                     Added a PPM display to assist diagnosing how much GCD intererence affects dps
                     Altered priorities to use .25 sec queueing
                     Removed Amplify magic as relevant buff
                     Added Intellect to stats graph and amended graph to up to 12 stats.

Version 2.2.24 - New General Release
                     Added Flame Shock
                     Added Flame Shock Glyph
                     Added Simulation for mana usage
                     Added user customisable Priority Queues
                     Added Graphing option to view the effect of adding/subtracting stats to/from your kit. With this you should never need EP values again.

Version 2.2.23 - New General Release
                     Added Priority Queue system to model GCD interference - this should speed up calculation times and be more accurate model of GCDs
                     Right clicking an item now brings up the gemming interface as in game
                     Added intial code to support user definied priorities
                     Changed to new SpecialEffect style Heroism/Bloodlust buff calculations

Version 2.2.22
                     Added new BossHandler options to simulate different boss fights.

You can download express versions of Microsoft's development applications (such as Visual C#).  They're not nearly as nice as the higher end versions (I miss the real-time capabilities ), but they'll compile just fine.

Yeah WTB a C#/C++ programming guy who can do a bit of the basics. I'm happy to do the calculation stuff once I can work out where everything goes. The problem with a project of this size is working out what the class hierarchy is (working out the syntax is another side issue ). ie: I look through the code and see references to various variables but not entirely sure where the data comes from. I'm getting there though.

However its just scratching the surface, working out how it fills out the panel in the actual view the end user sees is not something I've looked at yet. Hence the need for someone who is very familiar with C#/C++ to do the needful and add a menu option or export button to save me having to work out how that bits hang together too. If I have an interface to write to I can do the necessary to create the EnhSim export code. It would also be useful to have a module version included so when testing we knew what people were using to get the results they see.

I'm also familiar with C# and my job description says "Verification Test Engineer" 



Where to report Bugs/Defects?
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Ofcourse @ codeplex 

Tidied up this thread a lot and re-worked the original post to be more user friendly, with version descriptions and download link. I also removed posts that referred to the source download and to no longer relevant questions. Idea is to keep the thread focused on the new task of developing the module.

Perhaps 2% spell crit from flametongue glyph?

DOH!!! Of course. I've not tried to implement glyphs into the model yet so they are missing.



Did you bother to read the bit about the Enhance module only having basic stats available at present it doesn't do any reliable dps calcs yet. So you can guarantee that its going to be poor at itemisation.

BTW the style of your report I'm afraid is utterly useless for debugging even if I was at that stage of debugging.

1) You missed out the version number - VITAL info

2) You refer to IODS without typing the name for clarity

3) You mention that "some green ilvl174 axe" which is so totally vague as to be laughable. If you are going to contribute to the thread it has to be a meaningful contribution.

I will leave your post here as an example of what NOT to do. Please guys we all want the model finished asap so we can get meaningful results, let me focus my time on responding to meaningful posts and not dealing with this sort of well meaning but useless post.

Levva, just wanted to give you props on the work you've done so far.  I just did a new comparison and my

health, mana, AP, agility, intellect, strength, yellow hit, spell hit, white hit, melee/spell crit and expertise rating are all showing proper values now.

I can say you've made some quick work of it to not know what you were digging through    Hopefully you can find another coder on the site to possibly help us out with the additional button in MS Visual Studio.  Are there any stand alone tests I can do to help speed up your debugging process?