Hmm yeah I knew the last bit was 6 seconds and not 10 (mentioned that on our internal forums but forgot to here) but I didn't make the connection that it was just 11 second stages throughout. Thanks.
Anyway it's first post updating time!
I recently made some changes to the first post to attempt to modernize it, since some of it was still living in the past. Let me know if anyone thinks any of the changes were a bad idea, or if you think there should be more. In short they were: removed the suggestion to drop 3 points in nature's focus, increased haste recommendation for a 5-GCD cycle from "180-220" to "250-280", added language about capping your mana on innervate to the Stats and Innervate section, removed references to trinketed lifeblooms from the Lifebloom section, added distilled wisdom and chromatic wonder flasks, removed Bangle, more strongly discouraged spellsurge, more strongly encouraged Boar's Speed, replace Royal with Purified, added a profession section.
Second, I would really appreciate it if a few of you all could download this attached spreadsheet and check it for usefulness and correctness. It was originally something small I made just to calculate some numbers for the first post, but things got a lot more complicated once Innervate mana capping became a somewhat common phenomenon. It's mostly a regeneration sheet, but it does have a short healing output section. The idea is that you put in your stats from the character screen, the estimated fight duration, what buffs you expect to have, and the manner in which you innervate yourself (if you do). The sheet should then tell you, for example, the mp5 equivalence values of various flasks and elixirs, the value of spirit compared to intellect given your setup, how much various heals should hit for, whether you are capped on Innervate and if so how badly, and so on.
The specific areas I'm looking for feedback on are the "Regen Stat Values" section and the innervate cap math. Those are probably the most important part of the sheet.
If you are kind enough to take the time to help out then I think it's somewhat self explanatory, but if you want some details then here are some brief comments. First about entering your input:
- Start by putting in your completely unbuffed Spirit, Intellect, Healing, and Haste values in the "unbuffed" column in the top left. For the "Pure MP5" value you can either add up the mp5 on your gear manually, use a mod to do it, or you should be able to play around with it until the "OFSR SpiInt + MP5" and "IFSR SpiInt + MP5" cells in the "Mana" section match your "Mana Regen" character screen tooltip (they're supposed to match).
- For the talents section, you want "LS" to be 1 if you don't have it and 1.15 if you do. "Intensity" should be 0 if you don't have it and 0.3 if you do. Naturalist should be 0 if you don't have it and 1 if you do. Sorry for the massive inconsistencies, but fortunately if you have a standard spec you shouldn't have to change the defaults.
- For all the buffs and consumables, you want them to be 0 if you don't have it and 1 if you do. Certain buffs have improved versions, and you want them to be the appropriate multiplier (for example 1.35 is imp mark). These should be written on the sheet for easy reference, and there should be pop up menus to pick from. The buffs and consumables should generally be easier to make sense of than the talents section.
- The "Non-MP5 Mana Gains" section is used only to determine what your Innervate mana cap is. Put how much DPS your spriest does, or 0 if you don't have one, and then put whether or not you have mana spring.
- The "Innervate" section is also mostly concerned with determining the mana cap. Put in how much mana you will have when you Innervate yourself, and estimate how much mana you will go through while the buff is active (just for reference, an LB in tree form every GCD will be 2350 mana). If you're in a rotation, you can look at the first post's Healing Strategies section which lists mana consumption for many common ones.
And for reading output:
- Like mentioned earlier, the "Mana Regen" tooltip on your character screen should match the "OFSR SpiInt + MP5" and "IFSR SpiInt + MP5" cells in the "Mana" section.
- In the "mana" section, the "+10 spirit" and "+10 int" numbers are how much raw MP5 you will get from 10 points of either stat on gear. This means it will factor in Kings and Living Spirit.
- In the "innervate" section, "Net mana (-30%)" is how much an innervate restores to you on top of what you would get otherwise. "Mana cap" is the maximum amount of benefit you can get from that Innervate mana. This is calculated by taking your total mana deficit and adding the amount you expect to spend during the Innervate, and then subtracting the amount of mana you would get from other sources during the Innervate.
- Directly below that, also in the "Innervate" section, is the amount of extra mana you will get per innervate by adding +10 spirit and +10 intellect. If you're capped, these numbers will be 0 and 150 (no kings) or 165 (with kings).
- The "Regen Stat Value" section attempts to put together the various things that spirit and intellect do and tell you how much each is worth in terms of MP5. For spirit this will add some combination of its OFSR and IFSR value (based on your FSR time input), and its benefit to innervate. For intellect you will also get its OFSR and IFSR value, its benefit to innervate, plus its contribution to your mana pool (over a 6 minute fight, the 165 mana added by 10 points of intellect can be viewed as restoring the same amount of mana as 2.3 MP5... and the sheet does view it that way).
- In the same section you can see MP5 values of various flasks and elixirs.
Eventually I hope for it to be something linked from the first post that people can use to help determine what gear to get and what consumables to use. If you have some time, please play around with it, let me know if you find anything interesting, have any suggestions, or just think the sheet is a piece of garbage. If you have some feedback, and it is something that other people might have an opinion on then just post it in the thread; for purely technical questions you can either post in the thread or send me a PM.