TheoryCraft-o-Matic Lite Updated
The TheoryCraft-o-Matic Lite has been updated with 5.2 spell data and the changes to Arcane Charges. Everything should be current; please let me know if you think any numbers look off-kilter.
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How to Solve Frost's Soft Cap Problem?
Many specs have a soft cap on one of their secondary stats: an amount they try to reach and not go over, because past that point, the value of the stat declines significantly.
Frost deals with not one, but two soft caps: haste and crit.
PvP Stats Added to TheoryCraft-o-Matic Lite
In response to the eternal run of threads about spell damage in PvP, I’ve added support for PvP Power and Resilience to the TheoryCraft-o-Matic Lite. If you set “Target Player(s)” to “Yes,” fields will appear for the two PvP stats. I currently have them set to default to 45% PvP Power and 60% Resilience. Changing these values should alter the calculated damage numbers appropriately.
Please let me know if you spot any problems!
The State of the Sim
Thanks to everyone (there were many of you, some on the forums, some here, some via email) who helped improve the simulation profiles. No sim results can ever be considered "final," of course, but between profile improvements and bug fixes to the sim itself, I think we can say we're zeroing it in pretty nicely. And so I wanted to show you where the Mage simulation numbers stand at present.
Top build for each spec, with stat values
Twenty-seven combinations of spec, L75 talent, and L90 talent
Arcane Crowdsourcing
I've put in a fair amount of time the last couple of days working with the SimulationCraft devs to get the Mage profiles functional. Not good and optimized, just functional. There's work to be done on all three profiles to improve both the gear configuration and the action priority list.
If you'd like to help, there are a couple of ways you can.