I have several suggestions and enhancement requests for this very useful program.

- Sort abilities in the report descending by % of total damage.
- In the report, provide at least one decimal point precision. (example: obliterate is 20.4% of my total, not 20%)
- In the report, provide peak and average values for DPS and TPS.
- Report on runic power generated per 20s "cycle" and per second/minute.
- Support for individual fight length and number of fights. The simulator currently covers sustained damage over hours or days, but boss fights are actually individual 3-12 minute battles. Shorter fights exhibit different performance profiles due to the use of consumables, higher proportional bloodlust uptime, DPS cooldowns, short rampup due to starting at zero runic power, and so on.
- I'm sure this is already on the list, but accounting for trinkets with use and proc effects would be very useful, particularly when combined with DPS cooldowns like ebon gargoyle.
- Use multiple threads to take advantage of multi-core CPUs.
- The default priority for unholy should prioritize blood fever over frost fever due to the rage of rivendare talent.
- Support consumables in the buffs tab. (fish feast, flask of endless rage, haste potions)
- Support for various combat-impacting racial abilities. (racial weapon expertise, arcane torrent, berserking, blood fury, command, etc)

These two options would be synergistic. Run a 5 min fight 100 times on multiple threads and average the results. This shouldn't require too much of a re-write, especially if shortcuts were used like using temporary files to collect results as opposed to having a master thread.

Other interesting statistics for multiple sims of short fights would be min, max, and variance. Very interesting would be a bell-curve-like representation of the dps plotted on a graph.

Something that would be a great addition would be some sort of integration with Rawr. Either implement the sim as a module or (probably more realistically) implement an import/export mechanism from Rawr's xml format to the sim's xml format. This would, in my opinion, greatly increase the usability of this program.

I, too, am trying a build based on glyph of howling blast, with <FrostFever /> at top priority. <IcyTouch /> is not even in the list, and yet I get quite a lot of IT even if my spell hit is capped.

I think that the problem stays in what the definition of a disease being "about to fade" is:

if you haven't got glyph of HB nor pestilence, it should be "if I don't shoot IT now, it will fade before the next F rune becomes available again"
if you've got glyph of howling blast, it it should be "if I don't shoot HB now, it will fade before the next FU runes becomes available again"
if you've got glyph of pestilence, it should be "if I don't shoot Pestilence now, it will fade before the next B rune becomes available again"

also, with glyph of pestilence you should be extremely conservative with the definition of "before" (if you fall 0.5s late, it's a disaster), while with goHB or unglyphed you really don't care if you sometimes stay 1s or even 2s without disease.

For example, in my goHB rotation, at a certain moment I've got 2 OB/HB to shoot, another OB/HB will be ready in 6 seconds, and FF is expiring in 5 seconds.
In this situation I shoot 2 OB, which I know that will proc at least 1 rime with a 28% probability, and if they don't, I'm staying without disease for 1 second (it's worth the gamble). If, instead, I see that if I shoot OB OB I risk staying 4 or more seconds without disease if rime doesn't proc, I do OB HB instead. I don't think there's a way to model that with the current priority syntax... correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm having a very difficult time getting the simulator to use pestilence the way I would prefer. It applies pestilence at the correct time, but then uses PS, IT immediately afterward. I would like the sim to only perform the first 4 lines of the rotation once, then after pestilence skip right to FSx2. Instead, it's simply going through the entire rotation every cycle. How do you get it to apply PS,IT only once?

<Rotation>
<PlagueStrike retry='1'></PlagueStrike>
<IcyTouch retry='1'></IcyTouch>
<BloodStrike retry='1'></BloodStrike>
<BloodStrike retry='1'></BloodStrike>
<FrostStrike retry='0'></FrostStrike>
<FrostStrike retry='0'></FrostStrike>
<Obliterate retry='1'></Obliterate>
<Obliterate retry='1'></Obliterate>
<Obliterate retry='1'></Obliterate>
<FrostStrike retry='0'></FrostStrike>
<FrostStrike retry='0'></FrostStrike>
<Obliterate retry='1'></Obliterate>
<Obliterate retry='1'></Obliterate>
<BloodStrike retry='1'></BloodStrike>
<Pestilence retry='0'></Pestilence>
</Rotation>

<Priority>
<BloodPlague></BloodPlague>
<KMRime></KMRime>
<KMFrostStrike></KMFrostStrike>
<FrostFever></FrostFever>
<Obliterate></Obliterate>
<BloodStrike></BloodStrike>
<FrostStrike></FrostStrike>
</Priority>

I really want to know that too. Also the fact that most of the standard builds have 500-600 AP specified? Is the calculator created so the AP is what's added from gear and not your total AP?

Uhm, correct me if I'm wrong, but the EP simulation does not seem to regard stats like hit and expertise after their caps or soft caps according to their 'weaker' status at that point. I can't be getting hit being higher EP, expertise being second highest, and strength third while hit and expertise are both soft capped. It appears to calculate them - correctly - from a zero onwards standpoint according to their soft and hard caps. I don't know the internals so I wouldn't be surprised if personal stats in the simulator aren't even taken into account. Can anyone enlighten us? [edit: source code is available]

You take your paperdoll's stats and they include most of your talents. Just do as told in the readme .

One between rotation and priority is grayed out. The one that is not is the one that will be used. Priority and Rotation are mutually exclusive.

Actually, I too needed several time to figure that out. Maybe you could do something more intuitve? Like a Rotation/Priority mutually exclusive hitbox?


AP from bladed armor should NOT be included in your character XML. In fact, if you've got the bladed armor talent and you set your armor in the character XML to millions, you'll get millions of dps.

I wasn't using EP simulation (as I consider it too buggy) but normal simulation and manual calculations.

Hey there, been trying to decide between my old blood spec and dw frost and I figured a simulator would be the easiest cheapest way to figure it out. So I plugged in my stats, spec, and gear for each and ran them through. There was a pretty large discrepancy between the specs (about 3k difference). Does this sound feasible or is it likely that I left something out of a rotation somewhere?

(Link is in the first post from now on)

1.0.1 Release notes

* Several small fixes
* 60rp are saved when the Gargoyle/DRW is not on cooldown
* EP calculation is much better now
* (Negative EP results were due to lower than expected dps results aka RNG)

The EP values shouldn't go negative anymore or very rarely. You can blame RNG then. EP cycles use the same random numbers now, resulting in much more stable results. Additionally I formatted the output for better EJ posting. Just slap the table tags around it.
Unholy got a boost, because the Gargoyle is used more often now. Before it rarely got used, because the sim didn't save the rp for it. Also please test SS vs OB. I didn't touch those, but I think the results are different now.

Edit: Set h to 101+ for EP, I won't fix that now .