I've been playing frost this entire expansion. For some reason i can't wrap my mind around Arcane or fire, i'm terrible. However as frost i'm solid dps. I love it, the rotation keeps me on my toes and actually helped my raid awareness. I do sometimes get flack from new recruits that see me spec'd as frost and question my sanity as a raid leader.
I do wish i could convince our rogue to give me tricks, but i get dark intent so i suppose it would be unfair.
Personally I'm using RAWR as a guideline too. The priority lists in SimC are a bit meh and usually only model fights like Baleroc ok-ish. I find myself using mage armor on quite some bosses, usually because there's too much AoE to do without, and in that situation the value of haste becomes higher compared to a situation with molten armor. I'm regularly ranking high on WoL, so I don't think I'm doing it completely wrong.
Which of these sims better?
The Soul Casket? Or the Brewfest Stopwatch? (reforged of course) http://www.wowhead.com/item=71337#comments
I really want to get rid of that Soul Casket, but I'm not sure the Pocket Watch is powerful enough to make a difference. Hopefully I'll get my hands on a better trinket before brewfest...if the guild leader gets back in time. @_@
Last edited by Bombkirby; 2011-09-19 at 03:10 AM. Reason: Fixing Typos
Yea I want to know the same thing as bombkirby, only I have the alchemist trinket, is the stopwatch going to be better than that?
Mage: Klünk @ Area 52
I got 4 bit t12 last night, might give frost a go now so tired of arcane...
I know this has been asked so many times but...I forget the answer. XD
Lose the T11 2 piece bonus in exchange for the T12 2 piece bonus? Or don't lose the T11 bonus until you have the 4P T12 bonus?
Finally in post-it, about time
Oh god what is this shit? Why is this stickied? You guys are really trying to get me to work on the rewrite, aren't you?
@Bombkirby: Trinkets, sadly I can't sim due to issues. Tier, I'd take the 2p12 over 2p11. Try and pick up more crit elsewhere though to get capped though. As always, sim to be sure though.
Edit: 5:10 AM, I got SimC running again after digging through the garbage that is windbg. Sleep now.
Edit 2: Sleep delayed. What the hell happened to arcane with DTR? Pulls ahead by like 4k. Crying self to sleep now.
Last edited by Kuni Zyrekai; 2011-09-23 at 12:17 PM.
I stickied it because it's a very useful guide and it shouldn't get bumped off the first page. The only thing I need you to do is to change the wow-head links to http://db.mmo-champion.com/ so mouseover functionality is restored.
You have some time till 4.3, so don't freak about rewriting (I had to update my old FAQ a bit too...and I had to do it uphill both ways), but just so you know; with the newest SimCraft I was able to determine that the difference between 2/3 NWP and 2/3 FP is 64 DPS in favor of NWP.
Well hello fellow mages, I'll contribute to the Frost mage starting this week end, as I'm part of the French Frost Resistance since Vanilla. I thank everyone contributing constructively to the Frost mage thread. Too bad we lack a 5% crit debuff in our 10-man... forces me to go 25 % crit as of now.
Tis week end I'll probably make with some friends an extensive testing for the exact value of crit cap on boss-level foes, as the accepted value is now around 102% but has not really been extensively tested. I'll tell u the results on Monday prolly (and I also invite all the French Frost Resistance mages to contact me). I'll compare RoZ w/ the Brewfest caster trinket if i also have time for it
If you want to check my char I'm Kythandra on EU-Krasus (not the right to post links)
@Kuni
When you do the re-write/update make sure to include: http://opendevelop.fr/shatter/Shatter.html
It's been mentioned at least a few times in this thread, but it always gets buried. I had nothing to do with it's development, but I use it a lot and I love it. It's an amazing tool for knowing how much crit you need to reach the shatter cap. You plug in your unbuffed int, select the buffs you will have present in your raid, and it automatically includes the int gains from flask, food, and mark/kings to give you the precise amount crit rating you need to hit 34% crit.
I know they are trying to get the DTR released on SimC for the next week. I know currently they have three questions remaining before releasing:
- Is the Flame/Frost Orb Explosion doubled?
- Is the Living Bomb Explosion doubled?
- Is Combustion doubled, and if so does it refresh the DoT ( like Warlock Shadowflame and Immolation do )?
If anyone has an answer to that, send a PM to Caltiom (http://elitistjerks.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=139125) over at EJ
Hey Kuni! Congratulations to the well deserved sticky. Keep it up! : )
I only really play frost for domo / rag and thats do to scheduling and i double df the adds durin trans phase of rag..... However.... I got #2 log on domo this week for frost 25m norm... #1 person did36k! Havent checked out their log / gear yet