Rawr is awesome, thanks for creating and maintaining this great tool. Any estimates on when the next release will become available?

No estimate at the moment, but it's going to be a while still. Personally, I've been rather busy lately, and haven't had as much time to work on Rawr as I've wanted to.

Question about getting new items into the Rawr Database. How exactly do you do it? I've been looking for info on this everywhere but can't seem to nail it. I tried the Update Item Cache, but that ended up giving me constant error messages to the point I have to nuke the folder and download a new one.

Tools -> Edit Items -> Add...

Enter the item ID of the item from wowhead, click OK and you're done.

Thanks a ton. This should help out quite a bit.

Now the question is: How do you add enchants ? I tried to compare ZG shoulder enchant with honored scryer shoulder enchant for my warlock alt, but it seems ZG enchants are not in the database. I found the enchant id from wowhead and tried to add it like an item, but while the import worked, it did not make it available as an enchant.

ZG enchants are head and legs as I recall, not shoulder.

edit* Ah, so there are also ZG rep shoulder enchants, my mistake.

You can actually represent Concentration Aura in the mage module using the pushback option in the Options screen. It's not listed in the buffs screen (and probably won't ever be) because most of the models don't care about/model pushback.

Yeah, I know, but it's a bit of pain... Especially since you have to take into consideration your own talents which will screw up build comparison, since concentration aura stacks additively.

Are they any plans on making RAWR defalut to Alliance Pallies or as always Horde get everything. At least away for it detect it when you download from Armory? It has almost cost ema few times

There are both. Head/legs is a tokenized drop, and shoulders is a rep reward for exalted with Zandalar.

Yeah, there's no editor for enchants in the current version, but we're working on that. You can just edit the enchantcache.xml as described above until then.

Pretty sure the mage model does calculate pushback, so I don't see why concentration aura couldn't be added as a buff. Kavan?

Comments about the Ret model (detect alliance vs horde), please PM to Zurm, here on EJ.

So...I have been using RAWR for a couple of months now and have a question.

I have a MH/BT level ARCANE (40/0/21) mage. I really enjoy playing as arcane and want to make sure I am gearing/gemming as effieciently as possible. The way RAWR works, it is always trying to attain a spell hit of 126 to provide the hit cap needed for both the arcane and frost schools.

When raiding I do have to fall back on Frostbolts now and again, but the percentage is fairly low in comparison to my arcane blasts. Is there a way to make RAWR ignore the hit cap requirement of the secondary school? The best I have been able to do is to spec RAWR so that my talents are (61/0/0) to get some idea, but this is obviously not the ideal solution.

Thanks!

I added concentration aura for next release.

For Malacrass I'm not sure what would be best, just doing the average should be the closest that is possible to do with the current parameters. It'll probably overestimate the interrupts a bit since it assumes there is at most one interrupt per spell and further interrupts in reality are shorter, so do a bit lower than average I guess.

I'll try to get adjustable BL and drums, I'm just not sure how exactly to handle it. For drums I have to distinguish between self-cast and others as one self triggers global cooldown. Also have to figure out how to enforce the packing restrictions. For self cooldowns it's easy since activations have to be separated by cooldowns, here they can be one after another so it's a bit more tricky.

If it is saying you get more damage with more hit then that must be the case for the settings you have. It seems like based on what you're saying that AB uptime does not match your ingame AB uptime. One possible cause for this is too low mana regen estimate. Check some WWS parses to see how much mana you get from shadow priest and any other possible mana regen and see if the settings in Rawr match those values. After the AB uptime is more representative the valuation of hit beyond arcane cap should be more accurate.

If I may ask, I do not see anywhere that I can set this as a value, so I am assuming that this is would be a calculated value. Any settings that I should change to estimate a higher AB uptime?

Right now, when raid buffed, I have between 13k - 14k mana with an MP5 of 500+ OOC and 300+ during combat.

If it helps, my armory link is: The World of Warcraft Armory

Ever since 14.0, whenever I edited an item, upon returning to the main interface, I'd get an error doing pretty much anything. ie. trying to select a new item or even shutting the app down.

I was in contact with Astrylian as he tried to debug the problem but he couldn't find a solution.

However, today I made sure to update my machine with the newest .net update from windows updates (it's a 'non-essential update so make sure to look in there) and it has fixed all my problems! Sorry to bug with that error Astrylian, I know it must have kept you up at nights lol.

Maybe add a comment in your main post concerning updating .net?

Thanks again for a wonderful tool!!

You could add a "number of drums" field, with a "own drums" checkbox, from an interface point of view...

I just want to start out by saying thank you for such an amazing utility. My one complaint is that Executioner has yet to be included in the prot warrior version.
Edit:
Just saw that the EnchantCache needed to be edited to include other enchants, and noticed Executioner is included but without the proc. Just need to do a bit of editing. Keep up the great work.

Is it possible to just double/triple/etc. the duration of the self cast drums? That would fit the self-cast model, but I'm not sure how that affects things if all drums are "external".

Quick bug report: Using Rawr.mage 14.1 with the following XML file: http://anyoneeb.net/~nathanbp/Issabella.xml the [Waistwrap of Infinity] is reported as 0 dps w/ incremental optimizations on (and all other optimization options off). Turning incremental optimizations off takes it to a reasonable value.

I got a fix in for next release.