Okay, I am posting, here, once more to possibly get an answer. If I get slapped in the face with an "infraction" again for asking a simple question I will, simply, look elsewhere for my information and no longer use these forums.

The best in slot relic, as it stands, is the [Bizuri's Totem of Shattered Ice]. Now, I know it's a preference between haste and attack power, or at least used to be. I would like to know what the math is that leads up to this conclusion; EP weights, up times, and DPS between using the two totems.


As I have read in a multitude of other posts that the difference in the two (haste and AP) was that haste was somewhat unstable and could result in a very high DPS, on one occasion, but low DPS on another. Also that AP was a steady curve as haste was more of a 'roller coaster' with higher peaks. Another post said that AP was better on fights where you moved around a fair bit and haste was clearly the winner on fights where you stood still. Either way. my question still stands and I will reiterate:

For what reasons is the haste totem BiS and is the AP totem equal, or far inferior to the haste totem?

Disclaimer: I don't have the Enh sim tool, nor the time to learn and run the sim properly for myself. Condemn me if you wish for being a busy person, but I do have a life outside of WoW.

Thank you.

Mmmm i wanted to ask if anyone's planning to stick to the good old 14/0/57 spec and not going to the frost subspec...

Well, in the OP, it is stated to stay with the 14/00/57 spec if you're using a non-proc weapon. However the few tests I've ran in the simulator still show 00/17/54 to be ahead by a few dps with Shadow's Edge, a non-proc weapon.

Same for me, and I think 00/17/54 it's better cause of the free interrupts and higher dps at moving/AoE.

CH on Valithria requires me to press different buttons, to a questionable benefit (timing it might be not so good). I dislike pressing different buttons, since context switching involves additional delays in my mind =)

Topic-deviating, glyph-related ramblings below (not Valithria-specific):
I run with HW glyph (ES, CH, HW), occasionally replacing CH with LHW (10-man one-tank healing on Blood Council). HW glyph isn't something that's useful on all fights, but it's pure gold when something hits you and you need to heal someone other (25N BQL air phase, 10H Saurfang when you're marked and BP is 75+, 10H Valithria 15+ stacks and random damage, 10H P3 Sindragosa when other healer[s] are entombed or have Unchained Magic, certain bad cases of Infest when your partner healer is inside the Frostmourne, etc.).
While there are fine competitors for this glyph slot (LHW, RT and even HST), none of them give you an alternate healing mechanic, they merely improve upon existing ones, all being a flat increase ranging from "not-very-useful-if-you-have-a-druid-or-two" (HST and RT) to "pally-HL-spam-FTW" (LHW). The HW glyph, on the other side, creates a very powerful version of priest's Binding Heal at no additional cost (BH isn't the cheapest spell in priest's arsenal).

But i think people who are significantly under the expertise cap will have some problems with hte new spec, in the 14057 we had free gcd's to use in case of dodges and now with the 01754 it's going to become a problem..

"Glyph of Mangle: This glyph now provides 10% increased damage done by Mangle instead of increasing the duration of the debuff."

Any chance that with 3.3.3 (tomorrow in EU) it will worth to spam mangle over shred?

Short answer, No.

A bit longer answer was posted a few pages back

Any idea when a new version will be available ?

Very nice UI Texty.
An upload would be very much appreciated.
Cheers

I agree with the above.
I'm not a mage expert myself, so i won't make a thread, but if anyone is well into the fire mechanics, it would be awesome with such a thread!