No, BM is not viable. It performs significantly worse than the other two specs in terms of straight damage.

Although you may be wearing mostly 245 gear, you're 2% below the hit cap and have very low armor pen. in favor of excessive haste. Gear choices seem to be the main issue, not the MM spec.

Hello,

Noob Rogue here looking for some advise on what macros I need to have.

Thanks in advance

purefury brings up a good point. How does Simcraft actualy calculate scaling factors (I can't look at the hard code online or i would dig threw it)? I assumed it Added some significent amount of the stat(example 100), ran the simulations with the extra stat. Took the difference in dps between the simulations done before the extra stat was added and after, then divided that by whatever the significent value of the stat was(example 100). My reason for this is, Simply addoning 1 stat to a simulation and running it would not give accurate result even with a large sample size because of the RNG nature of wow(and simcraft). Or is it more complex than that?

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Does the Val'kyr get healed by Fel Synergy?

As Calidius surmises, you have bumped into the largest flaw in any dps simulation architecture. Formulation provides precise numbers that are more-or-less correct. Simulation provides correct numbers that are more-or-less precise.

The accuracy of simulation scale factor generate degrades in super-linear fashion with decreasing stat deltas.

The following formula is NOT truly correct:

Scale_Factor = ( DPS_StatDelta - DPS_Baseline ) / StatDelta

Multiple runs could produce DPS_StatDelta values in the range DPS_StatDelta_Min to DPS_StatDelta_Max
Similarly, DPS_Baseline is really a range from DPS_Baseline_Min to DPS_Baseline_Max.

That means Scale_Factor is also a range:

Scale_Factor_Min = ( DPS_StatDelta_Min - DPS_Baseline_Max ) / StatDelta
Scale_Factor_Max = ( DPS_StatDelta_Max - DPS_Baseline_Min ) / StatDelta

Ideally, you want Scale_Factor_Min and Scale_Factor_Max to be as close as possible. (I do not actually report these values now, but perhaps I should.)

We are squeezed between wanting to create trustworthy scale factors and the fact that DPS is not a perfectly linear graph. The closer DPS is to linear the safer it is to use large stat deltas.

Maybe this will help you "get it": WoW Meters Online - Combatlog Replay (scroll past Putricide)

I agree that finding the top DPS numbers (which could include stacking specifically for a given toon or class) isn't the best methodology, but it's pretty clear to just about everyone that rogues substantially out-dps all other classes (including other pure dps classes) on the vast majority of current pve content.

Being 2k dps above the next non rogue is not a "little bit more damage". I think it was pretty clear to most of us that nerfs were incoming. It's a hard nerf but it should still leave us close to the top of the charts, just not by such a insanely large margin.

This question is about my Arcane mage, that hopefully you guys will be able to help me with without flaming and whatnot.

I have been playing Arcane since level 1, and I have a solid understanding of it. I am a troll mage with a Gear Score of 2665 (5085 by in game addon) and I am constantly getting ragged on by my IRL friends for low DPS.

On a training dummy I hit about 3.2k unbuffed
In heroics I hit about 3.5k
10 Man 4k
25 Man 4.5k

I play the standard 56 / 3 / 12 arcane raid spec, I have 2406 SP, Crit Chance: 18.89% (25% With MA), Haste Rating: 486
and I am way above Hit Cap without even trying (464)

When I pop all my trinks, Icy Veins, and Berserk + Wndfury totem and Bloodlust, I can get my Arcane Blast To .9 (.1 below GCD) And spam that for about 20 seconds.

I was doing ToC25 last night, with several other mages in the the raid, one of which had only slightly better gear than me, but was doing about 7k DPS as opposed to my 4-5k

So my question is, what am I doing wrong? I use the standard rotation, ABx3 - MB, I have decent gear, and all my gems are +23 SP.

Can someone please explain what the problem is?

(Also, InB4 WTF PVP CLOAK?! Yeah, I know I have a Furious Gladiator cloak, I will be changing that for the 50 Frost cloak today)

Hey Larry, I just read your post and checked out your gear. I don't think you should worry about the ArP soft or hard cap that much until you bring your crit up, but keep trying to get that trinket for now. That will solve your ArP soft cap issues as well as give you a decent amount of crit, and don't worry about hard capping until you have a much higher level of gear, preferably Icecrown 25 gear.

The area that I feel is impacting your dps the most is your low levels of crit. You could stand to gain about 10% more crit to help proc your flurry ability more which increases your melee attack speed by 25%, as well as rolling more bleed procs. Both of these will greatly enhance your single target dps.

The weapon damage and speed make it worse than ToC10 normal mode ranged weapons, let alone the stats.

As stated above, this is a Tank weapon, do not use it.