I flew around a bit and used beast lore to get the armor values for lvl 70-80 and interpolated those for 81 and 82 from there (they do confirm your observations).
Concerning your suggestions - I guess I can include a simple switch to turn on/off ES interleaving and ISS saving. The "look-ahead decision-making" by the way of calculating different permutations of castsequences is something I´d still like to do eventually but to be perfectly honest, I don´t think that´ll be done in the near future.

Yeah, looking ahead is non-trivial to do. Also, my post was slightly misleading, just disabling the current code for waiting 0.5s between ES isn't enough, we still don't want to fire 3 back to back ES under any circumstances - I went poking around your code thinking I'd just have to disable something, then realized that I'd actually have to make it detect that LnL is procced while ES is ready, and then alternate between recommending ES and the next highest damage shot until LnL wore off :/ - I think if I just disabled your current LnL code it would tell me to just fire ES thrice in a row.

people, I'm looking for an addon that can show me, which buffs i miss to get full buffed (blessings, int, mark, stamina, totems etc.) and which debuffs i miss on target(normaly boss) to get full debuffed. (coe, mangle, expose armor, FF, devouring plague ....).
So if you know of an addon like this then please let me know.

To check for all buffs: BuffEnough : WoWInterface Downloads : Buff/Debuff/Spell Mods

this one will be good for buffs, but he was updated 04-27-2009. LK buffs arent included, like horn of winter...so its crap.

Here's one that was available for 3.1. The author is looking for someone to take it over. But it's still a very useful mod to have before you click "Yes" on the ready check.

BuffEnough - Addons - Curse

Ever since I changed to MM over SV, Faceshooter isn't working very well for me at all. Following it's rotation at the start of a bossfight gives me:

(HM), AiS, ArS, SS, SS, SS... until AiS CD is up.

Are there any obvious pitfalls I missed? I was kind of expecting an MM build to have SrS and CS in its optimal rotation somewhere ;-)

That´s strange and certainly shouldn´t happen (for me it doesn´t). I dont think there are any options that could cause it either. There´re only 2 reasons for FS to put SS over other CD/Talented shots:
1) It calculates for SS to do more damage than the other shot - I guess that could happen with high amounts of ArPen but in that case it wouldn´t propose ArS either.
2) It doesn´t realize you´ve got the CS talent (bugged lua function returns maybe?). This doesn´t explain why it chooses SS over SerpS though.

Anyway, does this happen to you consistantly or did you just try it this once? If you didn´t try that already do a relog and a swap to SV and back again. If it still happens... well it´s hard to say what causes it but I´ll try and look into it.

edit: Thinking about it there´s a third reason why FS wouldn´t show SerpS would be if the debuff detection worked wrong and FS thinks there´s still one up on the target. I didn´t get a bug with that one since the last update though.

Midnight,

I've been having the exact same issue as Kaganar. I've had it for at least a month or more but just assumed it was something I had done, or that it was just obvious to do a SrS after HM and so FS wasn't recommending it. Of course once I do SrS then it recommends CS. Like Kaganar it often recommends ArS instead of SS even on standstill fights. I've tried going with it's recommendations and also ignoring them and using SS. I do more damage ignoring FS and using SS. I may try completely uninstalling and reinstalling since you say you do not encounter these issues.

I also briefly used SV, but it was acting up before I did that and while my specs were BM and MM.

Hello.
Is there an addon similar to Fortexorcist, which could visually display my trinket and talent internal cooldowns and only those? I tried fortex, but it makes a real mess, since I already use omniCC to distinguish my ability cooldowns. I would like to have an addon, which displays a warning, when a trinket ICD wears off, something like MSBT's - Ready now, or Power Auras notification, something that displays it visually but without that other mess. Thanks in advance.

And other question - Is there an addon, which could warn me that there is no serpent sting present on the target? Sometimes when I have to run around a lot, I forget to recheck, whether serpent has been worn off, and then my chimera serpent part is of no use, i loose dps because of no serpent present, and ofc, if I used serpent with max AP and other buffs, like hysteria, tricks etc, I just lose a lot of dps then. Tried Utopia, but it is more for the really debuffing classes, not for a hunter's serpent sting.

You could try procodile netbeast. Not sure if you can set it up to send you a warning when your trinket gets off icd, but it does show a visual for the icd of all your procs (ring, trinket, tier bonus, etc).

I switched to using sexycooldowns to track cds and internal cds. It can also show buffs if you want. But unfortunately it only allows blacklisting buffs and not whitelisting so you'll have to blacklist everything you do not want shown.

I prefer Event Horizon for that. It has a bar for Serpent, all your other shots, you can manually add stuff like Hunter's mark (different colors for yours and someone else's) and you can add trinkets. I have my Death's Verdict and Deathbringer's Will shown, as well as the Ashen Band proc.

The downside is that the addon takes up quite a bit of screen space. Also, all the changes you want to make must be done with editing/adding stuff in the game code. There's no in-game UI for it.

If you make the bars lighter, remove the border, etc. you'll never notice it except when you need it.

EventHorizon Redshift : WoWInterface Downloads : Plug-Ins & Patches

Use that to show event horizon only in combat.

I know this has been asked quite a bit but im looking for an addon that shows 2p t10 procs deathbringers deaths verdict procs etc etc without much configuration and without taking up to much space. Also would like it to show how long i have the proc for and not just when it procs

I only very briefly checked the addons just above so if i was wrong and they do fit the above criteria i apologize but let me know. Thanks

Right now I´m trying to get Serpent Sting tick calculations for FS better. I´m working with the following assumptions:

For SV and BM I guess it´s rather straight forward - tick damage is determined every time I cast Serpent Sting. It doesn´t matter if I´m refreshing an old sting or if I´m applying a new one. Damage modifiers on my target, myself or changes to my AP/Crit etc after the application have no bearing on the tick damage.

MM mechanics for (re)applying Serpent Sting itself are the same as for SV and BM. If the DoT is refreshed with CS however only changes to AP and target damage modifiers carry over to the refreshed sting. Changes to percentage damage modifiers on myself (2T10, CotH, TotT, ST etc) remain the same they were when the sting was cast.

Is this about right?
My apologies for asking this - I think I remember this topic being discussed somewhere here but it´s kind of hard to find it buried deep within one of those 100+ pages threads.

Basically, yes.

Put slightly differently, only % dmg modifiers in place at the time of the shot are retained throughout the life of an explicit SrS (i.e. one fired by the hunter), everything else is recalculated based on current stats & buffs at each CS-driven refresh. That means you would need to track what % dmg modifiers were in place when the sting was applied and consider proposing re-application if higher level % dmg modifiers affected the hunter later in the fight. Whether those modifiers would be worth the GCD loss of a re-application would depend of the expected remaining duration of the fight and the damage differential the new % dmg modifier provided. This could potentially mean tracking multiple SrS as you could potentially refresh more than one target's sting using CS, although that would be unlikely.

In addition to % Damage modifiers, it has recently been verified that % Crit is not recalculated on refresh. An easy way to test this for yourself is to apply Serpent Sting to a Training dummy, Feign Death and unequip all your gear minus your weapon, and refresh the sting with Chimera Shot. This behaviour coincides with the Warlock dot refresh system.

Thanks for the answers. I found a lot of posts on that topic now that I thought about searching for the term "Vezax". So many in fact that I´m feeling kind of stupid for having even asked in first place.

On the good side of things I also found what I was looking for - a post explaining not only about % modifiers on the hunter but also about target debuffs: Marksman questions

This post confirms what I already suspected but wasn´t really sure about - debuffs on targets like Earth and Moon or Singed on Hodir do not roll with CS.
On a sidenote I also found out that the CS-Serpent part doesn´t seem to use the actual - buffed (or debuffed) - Tick damage but the theoretical damage for which it would tick if SpS was cast at that moment.

So in essence I guess I´ll have to calculate 3 different values:
a) Tick damage if I refreshed the sting with Serpent Sting in order to evaluate SpS priority
b) Tick damage if I refreshed the sting with Chimera Shot in order to evaluate CS priority
c) Tick damage for which it should be ticking right now in order to check against actual tick damage to calculate potential deviations

The first one just uses current damage modifiers, AP, crit etc, for the second one I´ll have to save the modifier that has been used when the sting was first applied but current target debuff modifiers, AP, crit etc and for the last one i´ll have to save whatever has been calculated for a) or b) by the time I cast SpS or CS.

The only question that remains now is if c) remains constant until a new SpS or CS is cast even if a debuff like Earth and Moon lands or runs out on the target while the sting is still ticking. My guess is it does but that´s propably easy to test on a dummy with the help of a balance druid, unholy dk or warlock.

I have been using Bartender bar mod since Ulduar days, and I have never had any problem till recently. Last night, during our guild's first try on Blood Queen, my bar wouldn't change to the "Bite" bar, causing me to be mind-controlled and wiping the raid. I've never had any problem before with similar bar-changing fights before, such as Flame leviathan, WG siege engines, etc. Is there any options that I need to change to circumvent this problem?

The Vampiric Bite ability during Frenzied Bloodthirst is actually located on the Possess Bar, which is often confused with the Vehicle Bar now. Make sure that one is enabled under your Bartender options.