I got the same problem :/

Accured in 93g & 93i (maybe before)

Before i pressed Recalc DPS
Yfrog - beforerecalcdps
After i pressed Recalc DPS
Yfrog - afterrecalcdps

Excel 2007 SP2 + Windows 7 (32Bit) + Core Duo e8400 [German version of Windows / Excel]

The "strange" think for me is that it is affecting setitems, non set and trinkets (which have no gems), so i really got no cloue what it could be :/.

I can also upload both version of files or post any addtional informations you need.

Thanks in advanace

That looks pretty awesome manapaws. I know I would be very interested in something like that. If often find myself wondering if certain items are worth the time/mats to produce and this would clearly help. Not to mention turn me onto markets I haven't even looked at before. I spend most of my time doing glyphs and have a hard time thinking that I could find other professions as profitable for the little amount of time I have to put in but this could certainly give me motivation to try other money making ideas.

Keep us posted on the progress

Hey guys!

Is anyone else finding ICC Hard Modes difficult to survive sometimes? We were doing Lady DW on Heroic last night and the Frost Bolts that got through and the Spirits were a nightmare.

Anyway, I started thinking about it and checking everyone else's HP and noticed something... every other melee DPSer had at least 4k more HP than me, and DPS DKs in similar gear have about 8k more HP. That's not insignificant.

What I found as a great comparison to explain the difference is the Int and Stam budgeting between me and our raiding Ret Pally. Here is what they look like (unbuffed):

Ret Pally:
Int - 186
Stam - 1827

Me:
Int - 707
Stam - 1406

So a 400+ Stam difference between two melee DPSers who both use mana as a source of damage? I'm sure you can guess the reason we're below the rest of the melee DPSers in HP by 4-5k at minimum... it's our Intellect budgeting. Anyone else find this discrepancy a bit unfair, especially when you tag on the fact that our only defensive cooldown is now a DPS cooldown? We have about the same HP as ranged DPSers and Healers, and no reliable defensive cooldown (with 2 piece t10). That sucks.

I posted about it here on the Damage Dealing forums:
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Enh Shaman - Need serious survivability help

Sweet UI's all of youz

That's pretty much what I was thinking. It seems to me though that with black ice and morbidity, glyph of dark death might be a fairly large dps increase compared to glyph of icy touch (death coil is always one of my top 3 damage abilities next to scourge strike and melee whereas frost fever is usually much lower down the ladder).

Consider's build on the first page, of course, is almost 99% certain to be better than either of ours because, you know, he does the maths.

It's no secret that our items diverse amount of stats has a negative impact on the amount of stamina they provide, it's an issue that will vanish in cataclysm with the stat consolidation - don't expect much if anything to be done before then.

I think it has less to do with INT budgeting than it has to do with AP budgeting. Our gear has AGI/INT/AP and other various stats whereas plate has STAM/STR and other stats. Plate melee is just going to have more stam because that is where a lot of their budget goes because there is no AP on their gear. It's additionally ironic given the fact that shaman base health is only above mages, which means we're just innately squishy. On LDW I focus shock down as many FBs as I can and hope that someone else can get any cast within the 6s CD. While it does hurt DPS to not use SR on CD, a dead DPS does no DPS so you have have to gauge the situation on when is the best time and under what circumstances to use it. Upside is if you're using SR on CD that's a decent amount of reduced damage uptime.

thanks .. very interesting

It seems counterproductive to add Morbidity for the extra DC damage and then not spend 1 point on Unholy Blight which would directly benefit from the extra DC damage.

If you aim at Frostbolt rank 1 as a kiting tool in pvp I haven't seen a Rank 1 Frostbolt in BG's in a long time. However I've been away from BG's and Arenas since 3.1 time and things may have changed.

As a pve tool in a raiding context, NO.

Reason a) Frost mages with icc gear have enough haste already to take frostbolt very close to the GCD
Reason b) Considering Rank 1 of the spell won't be your top rank version of it, its cost (mana) will be higher than Rank 14.
Reason c) Also if you have a spell at 0.8s casting time, you are still blocked by the GCD, making it useless to "spam" that button, you would use your rank 14, get the same effect, and do more damage.
Reason d) Raiding Frost Mages are forced to take Glyph of Frostbolt, wich removes the snare, that applies to ALL frostbolts ranks.

Reason d, is the main explanation of why it's not used.

To answer the second part of your post as previously stated by Neshalin it is not possible to make a spell with cast time "instant" the casting bar will go really fast, but still it has casting time.

Well so far with only 11 people signed up for my ToGC25 GDKP I've decided to take a different approach: For the next couple weeks I'm going to turn it into a pug with minimum requirements. 4.5k+ dps needed to be able to stay in the raid, 5k GS minimum to get in. I'm hoping that turning this into a pug will get some more people interested in ToGC25, and eventually after a couple of weeks of -hopefully-successful pugs I'll convert it back into a GDKP. Thoughts?