Infraction for MinorPandemic: 16. Don't break all the rules in one post.

• Vulajin · 04/23/09, 1:45 PM

Post: Raiding as frost
User: MinorPandemic
Infraction: 16. Don't break all the rules in one post.
Points: 2

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

In your post I count infractions for not reading the first post of the thread, unnecessary random introductory crap (no one cares you're a first-time poster), posting your random spec no one cares about, begging for hand-holding, and not reading the thread (especially the first post). Oh, and signing your post.

In summary, have a day off, read the first post a bit more thoroughly, and break fewer rules in your next post.

Original Post:

Dear EJ community:

I am pretty new to World of Warcraft and am not yet at the point of raiding, but I am getting close and am interested in speccing frost in raids. I was referred to this site by a friend and find it a very valuable resource and so feel that this is the perfect place to ask my question.

I have been looking over the talent trees and have noted that the use of Brain Freeze actually lowers DPS as of this patch, according the first post in this thread. I have been toying with frost builds and was wondering what a 27/0/44 build would do as far as DPS in a raid situation. I have done no real theorycrafting before so don't expect good quality, but, under the assumption of Frostbolt spam and a crit chance I chose randomly, I did a bit of math, which I wrote down in Word.

46.7% Chance to crit
Assuming Ice Shards and CSD, critical damage multiplier: 209%

Normal Frostbolt Damage with Talents: 1
Frostbolt Damage: (.533*1)+(.467*2.09) = 1.52903
Frostbolt Damage with Chilled to the Bone: (.533*1.05)+(.467*2.1945) = 1.5844815

Spells effected by Clearcasting: 10%
Arcane Potency crit chance increase: 30%

Frostbolt damage with Arcane Potency and Clearcasting:
(.1*((.233*1)+(.767*2.09)))+(.9*(1.52903))=(.183603)+(1.376127) = 1.55973

As you can see, I found taking Arcane Potency to be a DPS loss because you must skip Chilled to the Bone. The results seem pretty clear but, being that I have done no raiding, I am unsure as to the realism of what I found. I was also wondering how things such as crit chance would effect the results.

I would greatly appreciate any input into the viability of the spec and/or the realism of my or (maybe) your results in a similar test, even if said input is all of you telling me that I am a scrub for thinking that this build would work.

Thank you for your time and effort,
MinorPandemic