I'm currently working on blood optimisation. I have already made some progress by tunning the disease reapply. I guess it's time to add Cryptic Fever as a buff.
Vangarr, select blood priority.

Edit: sorry, missed the post about this issue. Please delete.

For the non hit/expertise segments of the EP calculations, it automatically puts you at the hit/expertise caps, regardless of the character profile it's working off.

For the hit/expertise segments of the EP calculations, it subtracts X hit/expertise (50, I presume) from the maximum, then calculates the dps loss to figure out the EP value.

So, it's working as intended.

On another note: I'm curious - would it be possible to add an option to run X simulations of Y duration back-to-back-to-back? This was recently touched upon (slightly) in the Unholy thread, and I personally think it would be of a lot of use, specifically in regards to calculating the value of GoD (among other things). I understand the reason simulations run several hundreds of hours - to rule out RNG (be it crit rng, weapon damage range rng, etc) - but fights are not several hundreds of hours long (thank god!). A five minute simulation, on the other hand, is much more realistic, rng and all, and being able to run, say, ten thousand of those five minute duration simulations back-to-back and have the results automatically combined/averaged out would be much more informative.

Of course, if it is technologicly complex/difficult/impossible, no big deal. But if it wouldn't take that much time to add, it would be a very nice addition.

Should be possible. At worst it's slightly slower then. 5:45min should be a good default value.
What results you you expect from such a change?

Edit: No, it's more complicated. Unless you're happy without a total fight result breakdown.

I think people are wanting duration sims so that glyphs like GoD don't get fake weights.

It may take 20-30 seconds to actually get a perfect disease stack rolling. In a 5.5 minute fight that's possibly up to 10% of the fight where you aren't getting max disease dps. The sims runs for like a 1000 hours and 30 seconds is an eyeblink. This leads to GoD simming better but not necessarily being better in the actual fights.

Short fights seem to work now. You don't get a detailed report though. The fight statistics are initialized together with cooldowns, timers and similar stuff. Seperating them takes a while and will create new errors.

A small teaser:
Blood Standard, DPS: 9645
Blood GoD, DPS: 9168
Unholy Standard, DPS: 9761
Frost Standard, DPS: 9201


1.0.9 Release notes

* Sigil of Virulence works now with Death Strike
* Option for many short fights (No report generated at the moment)

Put your character file here http://pastey.net/ and anything else that you changed from the default values. I can't do anything at all without complete informations.

http://www.gamerenders.com/uploads/logs/character.txt

Pastey appears to be having an issue in regards to their MySQL DB at the moment, so I cannot upload there.

I did not change any other files but the character settings, and re-running the program again with a rotation over priority returns the exact same results as my initial post indicated above (ran a 100h test this time).

Is there any plans to implement the ArP nerf in some way? Maybe as a checkbox that can be enabled or disabled.

I was wondering what method Kahorie's DK Simulator is using to calculate the 4P T9 Bonus at the moment.
As pointed out by a posted in the Unholy discussion it seems that current game mechanics are giving our 4P T9 a 1% crit chance.

I was curious if the DK Sim uses that 1% crit chance, melee crit chance, or spell crit chance.

The main reason I am curious is because it seems that Unholy Obliterate only wins against DW Frost when simmed in Best in Slot gear when 4P T9 is applied. Otherwise when both Best in Slot sets are set to only calculate 2P T9 DW Frost wins by about 50dps.

Seems like the Sim is not using Hysteria when simulating Blood dps.

I ran 2h Ulduar gear set with the default Blood talent spec (moved one point from Epidemic to Necrosis however).
I used the "Many" setting with 350 sec fights over a 100 hour simulation. I used Vengeful Heart and the default Blood priority. Set bonii were 2t8 and 2t9 (pretty sure that is in the default gear set as well).

Result: 7000 dps.

Next, I simply took one point out of Hysteria and put it in imp Blood Presence with all the other settings the same.

Result: 7000 dps.

So keep this in mind when evaluating sim results for Blood vs other specs if you do use Hysteria on yourself.

Is it possible to put in an option to let the sim use Hysteria (esp timed with DRW) ?

This might seem a bit odd at first glance, but I was wondering: Would it be possible to add Rejuvenation to the buffs you can check on/off?

The reason I ask is because of Revitalize, of course.

If your resto druid isn't running out of mana (quite possible, depending on the fight) and has the free GCD every 18 seconds (pretty likely, certain fights/phases aside), keeping Rejuv up on a DK (or a Rogue/Feral Druid/Warrior) is a direct dps increase, so why not do it? What I am curious about is how much of a dps increase it in fact is (so I have a number I can toss at my resto druids, of course!). Rejuv costs somewhere between 350 and 450 mana (depending on whether or not the druid is using Idol of Awakening and/or Spark of Life), which casted every 18 seconds comes out to ~100 mp5. Over the course of a 6 minute fight, that's only ~7500 mana, the equivalent of a single innervate. It's not much. What if it adds say 100 dps to a DK? Or 150? Or 200? Or really any amount? If the mana is going to go to "waste", why not convert it into dps? It's not like the DK won't benefit from the healing at certain points on some fights anyways.

I know the sim already has an option to add X runic power every 60 seconds, but that doesn't model Revitalize accurately. The feature works one of two ways (I'm not exactly sure which, to be honest, as I rarely use it myself) - either giving you X runic power instantly every 60 seconds, or X/60 runic power every second. I'm assuming the first, which makes it fine for the "AMS" factor of fights, but Revitalize is quite different. Getting 16 RP every handful of time is better than getting, say, 80 RP all at once, as the latter will probably overcap you (depending on where it falls in your rotation), and thus lose value. As such, yeah, it can't really tell one Revitalize's value.

This isn't a huge deal, but it would certainly be interesting to know, if it isn't terribly difficult to add. Not only could it be used in arguments with one's resto druids, convincing them to keep Rejuv on you at all times, whether or not you need the healing, it can also be used for those resto druids who already do toss Rejuv on the melee if they have the extra mana purely for dps, convincing them to make sure it is up on you over a Rogue/FDruid/Warrior.

Edit: To the below - duh. I'm an idiot. That's what I get for thinking about this at 430 am ><. Feel free to delete. God I feel stupid.

Unless there is a bug, both fields that set the RP gained over the fight the should be editable, not just the value of the gain. Default value is set to 60s but you can change it to what ever you want.

I can't work out something, perhaps because I'm a tank not so familiar with EP.
What is the significance and meaning of the different EP 50/10/0.1 values?

Do they mean every point of Attack Power equivalence is worth 5x that of each weapon DPS point?
I can't work out how to compare across the EP50 values to the EP 10 and 0.1 values.

Im getting some weird Haste and Expertize values on the EP figures after runing the 1000h test, similar to Asphyxialol.

The expertize one is the weirdest cause im above the cap.

Edit: typos

That is the value added to the stat to calculate their EP value, however this is not a very useful information.

Not possible, due to the way the sim is done internally.

Ohhhhh. That's good to know.

I believe the weapon speed value goes by 1 second intervals, so if a weapon suddenly became 1 second slower, it would be worth 539.68 more attack power for you. The difference for most weapons is likely to be closer to .1 or .2 seconds, so just divide accordingly for a difference of about 54 or 108 attack power respectively.

The speed and dps numbers are in no context with each other or anything else but themselves. Some people like to have numbers to compare weapons.

Hi all,

I'd appreciate it I could get a second-opinion on my conclusions on TANK DK threat stats. The complete post is here. For convenience though, I have put an extract here.

I am fairly sure my conclusions and analysis are right, but do not want to spread misinformation if I've got something wrong. Also, readers may find it useful in its own right.