Demo or Affliction?

[Kildragon]

Welcome to being a warlock. The last time we weren't shoe-horned, every spec was equally bad (Dragon Soul).

Warlocks were bad in T13? Man, why wasn't I aware of this?

[Caltiom]

you are completely right, whydrood, while hit is simmed lower than haste and mastery in general what ppl forget is that it is nothing more than a simulation where the best conditions are met, meaning that you refresh dots instantly after a miss, and unless you have reaction times faster than a human being(which is an impossibility) is capable of, hitcap will ultimately benefit you more. [...]

Once again: SimC has very high reaction time, exactly for things like missing a dot application. It's a exgaussian distribution with mean 650ms. I wouldn't call that "faster than a human", on the contrary.

Whydrood's Min/Max numbers are a great example of interpreting more than just the DPS number. In Simc you shouldn't use the min dps, but rather something like the 5% percentile ( to get a statistically more realiable comparison ). Comparing the variance of the DPS can be very important for high-end raiding guilds which depend on constant performance delievered. On the other hand, questioning such fundamentals as "hit is always best" is a good thing, to clearly understand the reasons for ones gear decisions.

The whole thing really is a good example showing how people usually just look at one single number, instead of taking a closer look at all the detailed statistics SimC provides. Really can't blame the program for that.