Rip's damage is updated each time it is refreshed by FB. The best you can achieve is to time FB to refresh Rip just before Tol'vir potion expires.

Well thats more accurate, semi-curious what I screwed up in the sim. It still comes down to paper vs. practice (especially when the theoretical difference is ~200 dps), same applies to reforging crit into haste, when gear is still at the point where you can still drop 4 specials before getting 5cp ~50 paper dps doesn't translate well.

Not sure if I'm misinterpreting you, but haste actually provides much better CP generation than crit. Better conversion of rating to percentage (1/128 instead of 1/179) and feral crit rates are already high, meaning additive stacking hurts crit more. Only disadvantage of haste is that it doesn't affect bleeds once they're up.

To add to this, CP generation is not nearly the value it was in the past. With skipping FB being a better option except under 25% (and in that case it simply replaces rip) CPs are much less valuable; essentially you need a 15-CP budget every 45 seconds or so, meaning a CP every 3 seconds on average. Having an excess of CPs does almost no good whatsoever at this point and could even encourage detrimental rotations.

Hopefully they'll fix FB to be a better choice as a CP sink, but for now CP generation is much less valuable than it's been in a long time.

or 20 seconds with Glyph of Berserk, of course.

I would disagree on:
16. Use Shred if Tiger’s Fury is almost ready, or you have more than 80 energy, or Berserk is active
17. Conserve energy

80 energy sounds like a very high breakpoint, even a short string of omen of clarity would make you energy cap. I do not see a reason to pool that much energy, since you would loose energy if OoC procs too much, and you would not loose dps if you anticipate timer refreshing a bit. And since you never use FB without blood in the water (at the moment), you do not have any reason to miss energy to refresh rip or SR.
Also, since refreshing SR does not consume OoC, you should permute 11 et 12.
By the way, using FB without blood if the water is still a dps increase if you are not berseking and if rip and SR are far from fading. I would add that between "11. Use Savage Roar if it is about to fade" and "12. Use Shred if Omen of Clarity is up".

Err.. this is a simplified version of the full priority list.
You should look at CatModelSimulator.script - mew-wow-druid-model - Project Hosting on Google Code for the full version if you want to implement that for better results
Leafkiller may have a better version too.

The actual breakpoint determined through lots of sim testing, as can be seen in the sim script, is actually (max_energy - energy_regen_per_second), so 80 is actually a low figure. Did you test your disagreement on the Simulator?

Did you test this on the SImulator?
In 4.0.3, it was tested to be a nett gain of DPS at >~10s of SR and >~14s of Rip remaining, but in 4.0.6 we've tested it using Simulator to be always the same or a loss of DPS to use FB.

I did not test that, but when I say 80 is quite high, I'm thinking also about real conditions, taking in acount lags, moving fights,... While I can agree that (max_energy - energy_regen_per_second) is the right breakpoint in theory (even if I can't see why 3 OoC procs is not a problem), I think that pooling as few energy as possible is the best option in real conditions, since you could have to stop your dps for a few seconds for some reason (strat forcing you to), you could have some lag when OoC procs, or anything else... And I thing the loss for pulling 50-60 energy is smaller than the loss from energy-capping when having any kind of issue. But I can't prove that obviously, it depends on parameters that we can't formalize.

Yet, I didn't test. But I'am confident that I'm not wrong, since when I say "if rip and SR are far from fading", I mean: "I am 100% sure that I will have 5CP back before the next time Rip/SR needs refreshing AND 5CP back again before the next time the other one needs refreshing". That way, since the DPE from FB is a bit higher than Shred, and CP generation is irrelevant is that situation, I can't see how FB wouldn't be a gain. Of course, "100% sure" is exagerating, one could always have a incredible string of miss/dodge, but such a chain has a negligible probability to happen.

At least, simple maths suggest that "T and T' exists such that if rip has T sec left and SR has T' sec left, then you should hit FB". And what happen here is simply that T and T' has greatly increased with 4.0.6.

I could try some simulation soon to get a more precise idea of T and T', but I don't have a lot of time and I don't know how to write a script for Mew. At the moment, I uses a rough approximation and I choose to FB when I see "15 sec on rip and 25 on SR", and to be honnest that only happen a very few time in a fight, usualy right after berserk.

(I hope that my bad english didn't stop you!)

I have been coding Spellflash: Druid for a very short time, I havent got to the part where I can just code in some changes. So yes I dont rely on the rotation I mentioned. But it's coming along.

I have just downloaded Ovale, first time using it. I also uploaded your script into it. Your code or rotation is flawless, the addon itself is horrible. I noticed that it will always show something in the box, this leaves out the "Conserve Energy" part of the rotation. Also it will show rake even if there is 10 seconds left on rake. This again I believe is just the addon always showing something. The plus side of the addon is the counter. Something Spellflash doesn't come with. But I do recommend getting Inline Aura. This will show CD timers, and also the debuff timers.

Im not sure if it is in your script but I have spellflash to wait to cast any Finishing move if Rip has 8 seconds left on it. It helps to keep rip from falling off. Again I like your rotation and detailed script, I just think the Ovale itself is a little glitchy. It might just be me.

2/22/2010
In the latest Updates I have gotten the rotation very close to what you recommend. Thank you everyone who replied!

So I've recently replaced Tiger Fury glyph with the Berserk glyph due to the fact you're better off shredding during berserk even with max CP. Now my Rip tend to drop around the 5-6 second mark of when Tiger Fury will be up. Should I wait those 5-6 seconds before reapplying Rip? Or just apply rip asap (with 5 cp of course)?

Also is there an optimal time where it's worth it to just wait those few extra seconds just so we can tiger fury rip?

This has already been shown through simulations to lose DPS.