In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I’ve provided fairly concrete suggestions for changes that should be made - specific changes to specific abilities that address specific problems that the class is having. And I have a fairly good-sized list of such proposals remaining; I could go several more weeks posting that sort of thing, and at the end of it the class would probably be better off than it is now. But having thought about it for a few weeks, I don’t think that’s the right thing to do....

• Aldriana

Continuing my series of posts in which I lay out basic theorycraft topics (see more here: http://elitistjerks.com/blogs/1152-hamlet/tc101/ ), here's one on mana regen and throughput.

This is a bit different from the previous entries; I'm not laying out much in the way of game mechanics, just describing a technique I often see mishandled in healer discussions. There's no general formula here since applications will be class-specific, but the principle applies generally. As before,...

• Hamlet

This is a minor update to my prior post on haste breakpoints, with a revision to the rounding formula that results in a slight change to a small set of breakpoints.

The previous post is here. You should familiarize yourself with the basic results if you haven't yet:
http://elitistjerks.com/blogs/1152-h...ints_rounding/

There I gave this description of how the rounding works:

• After haste is applied to the tick time, that

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• Hamlet

So following a twitter conversation with Hamlet following this series of tweets

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Binkenstein

I was curious who had the best chance at winning GSL August, so I wrote a little script to simulate the entire tournament, using the approach described here: Dreamhack [E-Sports Prospectus] (Basically: take each player's ELO and ELO vs. appropriate races from TLPD - SC2 Korea - Player Index and simulate groups, then the various RoX through to the finals).

After 10,000,000 simulations, here's the group stage (the numbers are % likelihood of obtaining that position):
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alcaras