Thanks again for the spreadsheet!

I've been having fun playing around with various rotations... I recently went 44/17/0 for fun (read - prep for A'lar) and was kinda underwhelmed by the damage output over time... I'm guessing it scales up considerably once you get 2/5 T5 and TLC.

I'm working on scorching less (it's a nervous twitch... don't want to lose those 5 stacks!), but is there any in-game aid you can suggest guys? I see Elk Debuff Bars mentioned by Manly, does anyone else have any suggestions?

Also, for some reason the AB/Scorch/AM Clearcasts rotation says it can go on indefinitely... Is it because of the clearcasting component? It would be nice to see some comparisons in dpm/overall damage time.

Spellstrike set bonus and Darkmoon: Crusade would be nice additions, but I'm not too worried (I can pretty much calc Crusade as a straight 80 as long as I don't have to move much, Spellstrike a little less accurately).

edit - I was digging a little deeper, and it appears that the buffed max mana value is calculating incorrectly, using 933 as base instead of the value from 'Game Stats'!$B$96, which is 1961.

You can go in and manually update the numbers on the items, and add your own items. I'm sure there will eventually be an update from the author with the new info, but until then, copy/insert away!

Got a question that I didn't think warranted it's own thread. I've tried looking in the the major mage threads on the board, but couldn't find exactly what I'm looking for.

I was wondering if there is a website for mages, similar to ShadowPanther.net - World of Warcraft Rogue Info - Charts, Articles, Strategies & more! where there's equipment sets listed, such as best gear attainable without raiding, best played crafted gear set, best pure +dmg gear etc..

Minor feedback: version I downloaded @ ~4:00 pm 8/17

1) found a small bug resulting in superhigh arcane missle DPS (~4000)... found it in the calculations reference base stats. Rather than a 5 second cast it is reading arcane missles as a 1 second cast while still using the full 5-second damage total.


2) this might sound stupid, but we actually carry along a charity ret pally in our raids and I noticed that the sanctified crusader debuff wasn't an option for debuffs. that adds another 3% crit.

3) I couldn't find any mention of molten fury and wondered how you treat it. Simple theorycraft has always pegged it @ 4% increase, however there's the x-factor of having less time to DPS under 20% which decreases the effect... yet the x-factor of manipulating cooldowns/trinkets/consumables to coincide with the 20% marker which increases the effect (bloodlust, combustion, trinket, flame cap, destruction pot, etc. @ 20%). Seems like there's too many unknowns to make a distinction and wondered if you just left it @ 4%.

4) I noticed you're calculating debuffs multiplicatively, I always thought it was additive from talents and additive from debuffs, only multiplicative between the 2 totals (13% firepower+PWF * 30% scorch+misery+coe). I have no evidence to back it up, just the way I thought it was. Same with +dmg coefficients after the 10% tax. It seems like it could be multiplicative but I've done a few tests that resulted in higher max-hits than should be possible with a 1.035 coefficient on fireball, it seems like all empowered talents are additive which explains why the quick-heals & wrath only got 10%. In that case, mages got shafted even further as a flat coeficient increase to fireball is less DPS than an equal increase to shadowbolt & incinerate, despite that shadow/flame is 20% vs 15%.

edit: to add to #2 and get really fussy, you could feasibly have imp sanctity aura for a 2% dmg increase, but i guess it's irrelevant as it's a flat 2% increase across the board