- Yes, FB can consume up to 25 energy to do up to 100% more damage. Thus if you have 30 energy when you cast it, it will do 120% damage while if you cast it at 50 energy it will do 200% damage.

- All physical damage is mitigated by armor, bleed damage is physical but is treated as a different form of damage that is not mitigated by armor.

- No, there is no longer any interaction between Mangle and Rake. Mangle no longer buffs bleeds. Swipe, however, is increased by 20% on bleeding targets.

- That is correct. Weapon dps = weapon damage + AP/14. Since our swing timer is always 1s base, weapon dps = weapon damage at 0 haste.

Moonfire is horrible, because we gain nature spellpower, not arcane/all spellpower.
Wrathspam with HotW is currently our highest dps spec. We can bomb out 150k-250k+ wraths every 1.6 seconds with haste reforging for 45 seconds.

In fact, I've been running 100k iteration sims on various priority lists to get stat distributions and I just finished 15 minutes ago! I'm in the process of updating the original post. Yay for being able to simulate on machines with 64 cores, designed to run proton therapy simulations!

Non-crit non-glance. Glancing blows still exist, and unless they've changed, against raid bosses they occur with ~24% chance (on swing) and do 75% (?) damage.

aggixx/Pawkets is the primary maintainer of the simulationcaft script for ferals (Tinderhoof and I have been working with him on it, but he is doing the bulk of the work and all of checkins). He does have a working implementation of HotW checked into the code base with the exception of weapon swapping, so you will have to do the trick of adding spell power to some item to test this.

There was a new release of simulationcraft today (505-2) that should include his changes. I noticed that it does not have HotW support in the action priority list (it is using a DoC rotation). I will ask aggixx to share his HotW action priority list.

@Hamlet - If you want to talk to aggixx about his HotW work and how HotW might impact Balance, here is a link to the primary thread where we discuss feral/simulationcraft stuff: The Fluid Druid - View topic - Simulationcraft - Feral rotation discussion.

As mentioned in the text above it, go with the tooltips, the wowhead item id cache is outdated.

Hitting our first raid tomorrow and curious as to what people are finding vs raid bosses. Hit and expertise cap or go with what simcraft says and ignore those caps?

So is there any way you can post how the stat weights change with and without wrath? I was assuming that mastery would still be the best but haste is better for that 45 second cd twice a fight? This is very believable I am just looking for whatever piece of evidence lead you to this.

edit: Oy, had some more tests trying to work out white DPS. The part nobody mentioned above was that Cat Form doubles white damage :P .

Beyond that, it looks like HotW doesn't change weapon DPS in any way beyond the AP increase.

Hey everyone,

I was trying to figure out the stat values for reforging for my gear (ilvl around 460, so basically for pre-raid gear, spec'd HotW and SotF), but ran into some problems with Simcraft. Probably because the details are pretty much rocket science to me (even though I thought I read that HotW was correctly implemented in the newest version of Simcraft?), I couldn't get it to use HotW actively for wrath-spam (preferably with swapping weapons), and I don't understand the mechanics well enough to just feel safe in assuming that the values will be (close to) the same as those for ilvl 509 BiS-gear in the main post. So I hope someone can help me out: does it, at pre-raid gear, pay off to go for haste (which, I believe, would generally suit me well) > crit > mastery = hit = exp (not dumping hit because it helps me not mess up my rotation)?

Thanks in advance.

You should be able to get a hold of me through EJ just fine as well. I wasn't aware there was any meaningful feral discussion going on over here so I hadn't really checked.

@Jazdia: I'd be interested in seeing what profile you used to run HotW tests, as your scale factors seem to be somewhat (although not drastically) different than what I've gotten.

This is the profile I've been using for T14H BiS HotW: #!./simc chardev=1709 name="Druid_Feral_T14H_HotW" origin="unknown" level - Pastebin.com

And here's a 25k iteration scale factor run of above profile: Simulationcraft Results
More iterations could be done as some of the stats are too close to each other to really be distinguishable (such as if Crit is actually better than Haste at a certain point).

Elegon:

Instead of opening with bleeds you should start the fight with an Intellect pre-pot and weapon swap + Heart of the Wild, the timing works out so that the first Total Annihilation happens as Heart of the Wild runs out, losing no damage uptime.

After resetting your stacks you can go onto Elegon with full cat cooldowns netting yourself way more damage.

In the final phase (sub 35%) you should reset your stacks and Heart of the Wild with an Intellect potion for optimal damage as your raid should be popping Bloodlust/Heroism at this time, and again the timing works out so that you can go back in cat and blow all of your cooldowns again.

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