Everything seems okay but I've got 20k score with those gears. I havnt seen such a huge number like that.

http://yoricome.tistory.com/attachme...366C564C91.txt

Just a heads up -- apparently I was incorrect here and you were right all along. For some reason these rings don't seem to follow the pattern of other items where there is one name for Horde and another for Alliance; here, for Horde, the ilvl 232 version is called Gormok's and the 245 is called Carnivorous, and vice versa for Alliance.

Scores are much higher now due to the inclusion of weapon speed as a weighted stat. Since it tends to have a large impact on the value of a given weapon, including the full speed score for each weapon, particularly for dual wielding, drives the score up. The scores are perfectly correct (at least to my knowledge!) just higher now that weapon speed is being included in the calculations since we essentially 'added' a stat to the gear as far as the program is concerned.

Also, I'll take a look at that file caching issue. It's certainly not something I coded, so my assumption is that Win7 is trying to be helpful and just causing problems. The interesting thing is that I'm running Win7 64 RC and have not had the issue you described when installing the distributable version to that machine. I'll do some digging - but thanks for the heads up on the issue.

I agree it seems like a Win7 issue, if there's anything I can do to help diagnose it let me know. I am on the release version of Win7 from my MSDN and not the RC1, but am unaware of any significant differences.

I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 SP3 and it seems it's caching all the .txt files as well. Deleting the gear.txt file fixed my problem.

hi, i just downloaded ur program, and strangely enough when i input the gear, the stats that come out are different from that of my character panel. why is this so o.o? am i doing something wrong..?

what ill do is select the items / gems, and then use the preset weight given for blood.

if thers something im doing wrong, please do let me know. thanks alot!

Hey Zerack, do you still plan on giving us the option which enchants to exclude from the calculations? I still got the case of 2 specs using AP on boots and one ending up better with Icewalker, and I really can't be switching the enchant every time I change specs (multiple times during a raid). Just wondering if it's still on the "To do" list.

It's on the list. I've been working on multi-threading this week so it sort of got pushed to the back, but it's something I'd like to be able to do as well. On that note, I've got gemming running in multiple threads, so the next step is the candidate set selection. That will be a little more complicated due to the nature of the iteration, but I'm confident I can have that up some time next week.

Just noticed there is no total score in the text files, so it's hard to compare setups when you have multiple text files. Example:

Just pure STR gems + Tear:
STR, STR/HIT, Tear:
Just by looking at it, one would thing that the first one is optimal, but the 2nd one took 3h to calculate and it *should* be better, but you can't know cause there's no total score.

One other thought would be a total score breakdown so once can see how much each stat is contributing to the end score. Example:

Any thoughts?

I always gets stuck after Finding Candidate Gearsets? It shows a full blue bar but never does anything after that. I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem.

Are you clicking 'Show results'?

Hi I am running windows vista ultimate 64 and have the same problem "all ilevels must be numeric" error. I see people have solved this problem deleting the gear.txt file. My problem is I am not able to find the correct gear.txt file to delete could someone please post the path to this file. I read the windows 7 path posted earlier \Users\<name>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files(x86)\DK Optimizer. The path must be different for windows vista I have been unable to get past the error.

I'm seeing a minor issue with the DW Frost weights - I have around 4 One handed weapons, one of which is 1.5 speed (for if I ever want to try out the dw unholy spec) - however, any time I add all 4 of the weapons that I have.... it tries to choose the 1.5 for my offhand (as frost, afaik anyway, you want slow/slow)

I have same OS and the file path is the same as the one for win7. "AppData" folder is marked as hidden. If you install it outside ProgramFiles, there is no need to worry about virtual store and old cache files.

I'm in the process of upgrading / rewriting this utility in Visual Basic.NET, so I'll make sure to address the virtual store issue in the next big release (probably by writing the program they way you are SUPPOSED to write it, heh). I was getting sick of trying to bend VB6 to my will while .NET looked so enticing, so hopefully this will eliminate a lot of the odd compatibility issues people are having.

There will be new features also. The biggest thing will be the ability to save and maintain multiple 'profiles' via file saving so that you can keep a saved set of 'My Gear' vs. a set of 'Optimal Gear' vs. a set of 'Gear For My Friend's Alt' etc. and optimize all of them without having to juggle selections quite so much. I should be able to clean up a lot of little stuff and implement multi-threading fairly handily. I've got a functional UI going that just needs some user-idiocy checking added and then I can dive back into the calculation logic which I hope to improve again.

Just bear with me while I code this up (again) as updates to the existing software will be sparse. Hopefully the third time is a charm.

Edit: If you're really curious, I'm trying to push the code up to google once a day or so. Link Here. Feel free to browse, but realize please that it's horribly incomplete.

Just a quick note, the Faceplate of Thunderous Rampage is incorrectly listed as having 155 strength when it actually has only 131. Pretty simple but it caused me a lot of confusion trying to figure out why the sim loved that helm so much when I have ArP set to a relatively low value.

The stat weights are not going to be the same. Also I think Unholy is back to using Scourge Strike now instead of OB, which will affect the spec's stat weights.

I'm not sure how much this will affect the BiS gear tables. Frankly I'm not sure I can be bothered to re-run them all again just in case some stuff changed in 3.2.2, so I might just leave them be until 3.3.

I just posted a new version of DK Optimize on the main post, so I'm editing this post to reflect that.

This is a from-the-ground rewrite in VB.NET, so there have been quite a few changes - but I think that they are for the better. The functionality hasn't changed, but I've added greater ability to maintain multiple sets along with saving things off differently to prevent some of the errors that happened before. If you want a full summary of the changes you can check the notes on the main page, but I'll list a few of the big things here:

• Multithreading
• Separate save files for different configurations
• Enchant on / off switches for boots, bracers, and gloves
• Large speed gains for gemming
• Functional hitcap / expcap forcing
• New UI
• EJ-ready output format

Current Version: DK_Optimize_2.5.0.zip (~619 kb)

I hope you'll check it out, as I think it's a significant improvement upon the previous versions. As always I welcome reports of errors, etc. Just a note on that since I've added some error logging. If the program actually crashes for whatever reason, a text log should be generated in your application data folder in the DKOptimize directory. That will be very, very helpful in helping me determine the cause of the problem. This has been tested by a few people but I'm quite sure people will find small errors.

Enjoy.

I keep getting the error message that says," No valid gemmed sets could be found. Please try again with different settings." Not sure what to do about that. I have the gems checked that I use, and full gear selection in. Along with all the other settings. Advice please!

Please send me a copy of the save file that is generating the error. I'll check it out tomorrow.

Edit: Without looking at the save file, I'm going to presume that this is the problem: You're forcing a hit or expertise cap but not selecting any / many gems with hit / expertise on them. This will result in that message since you're basically telling the simulator 'I value hit to cap over any other stat, but oh by the way you can't use any hit gems.' That will trip it up since the candidate gear selection assumes you will select optimal gems.

Just a guess.

Ahhhh. You were indeed correct. I took those qualifiers off and it worked just fine. Thanks!

First off, thanks a lot for this new version. It's very user-friendly and the calculations seem much quicker than with the previous ones.

There are two things I noticed, however.

First, would it be possible to get the new Relentless PvP weapons into the next version? For those of us who can get the 281 dps weap from PvP but not from PvE yet. :P

Also, when I select engineering as my profession, it correctly displays the hyperspeed accelerator as the glove enchant, but it doesn't use any enchant on boots and ends up switching gems accordingly (for instance, using an additional hit rating gem instead of icewalker). I know that the previous version would show nitro boosts as the best boot enchant if you had the engineering profession, so that might have something to do with it since nitro boosts isn't in the enchants list.