Warning for Charlyfox: 7. Do not beg for hand-holding.

• bartolimu · 03/19/09, 11:34 AM

Post: The Frostfire Bolt thread
User: Charlyfox
Infraction: 7. Do not beg for hand-holding.
Points: 0

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

I am willing to be lenient about your English for now, as I understand trying to communicate in a non-primary language can be difficult. However, I do need to ask that you please use the Search feature before posting, as many of your questions can be answered without further consultation with other forum-goers.

As far as your English is concerned, the item that most concerns me is your use of punctuation. Please note that unlike French, written English never places a space before punctuation.

Original Post:

Dear EJs,

This is my first post here so I’d likle to thanks every contributor of this outstanding forum. I’ll add that being French I am not a native English speaker and beg for your lenience concerning my English.

Context of my question:

1) I am the scorch bitch of the raid.
2) From readings here I assume that letting the scorch debuff drop will loose more overall raid dps than any personal gains I could make so I need to keep it up all time.

Motivation of my question:

Given the big dps difference between scorch and ffb, and the fact that the scorch debuff has a fixed duration unaffected by haste, I believe that there exist some haste break point where haste doesn t scale dps linearly : basically where you can include one more ffb in your scorche debuff maintaining rotation, you change your ffb/scorch ratio and will expect a non linear gain of dps (a kind of threshold/breakpoint effect). More accurately, the percentage of time you will be dpsing using ffb vs scorche takes a step change when you fit an extra ffb in your routine.

My question is the following :

what is the right mathematical modelisation that can take into account the time spent to cast HS pyro and LB ?

I fell that using an average number of Pyro+LB will not take into account the integer/ arithmetical side of this problem…

I know simulating in rawr will give me a good result for any one gearset but please keep in mind I am looking for the haste break points.