It seems foodbuffs aren't calculated the same way as gems are.

2x20 agi gems + pen food = 8703.92
2x20 pen gems + agi food = 8689.32

Don't foodbuffs benefit from kings? This could explain the situation I guess, but I doubt that's the way wow handles it. Sadly I'm unable to do tests at the moment.

It seems probable that SS will be calculated as a any kind of shot when it comes to crits according to a blue post. Any chance of an implementation?

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If you're talking about the serpent sting crits, yes I'm aware of the promised change (and greatly looking forward to it). However as of the latest PTR patch from last night, that change is still not implemented on PTR. So until it is I'm not going to apply it to the site.

Aye, good point.

Would it be possible to implement a fourth glyph slot since glyph of steady shot is redundant for marks at the moment? A fourth glyph slot might be helpful to see cross-glyph interaction in general anyways =) If it's hard to code it's probably pointless since we could just notepad the dps.

I suspect that the steady shot glyph bug will be addressed soon, but I've run tests on the PTR and it does seem to still be broken there. According to my tests it looks like anytime you have a point in marked for death you get the benefit of steady shot glyph without having the glyph. So for now I've just included this as default behavior in the site. When the bug is fixed I'll take it out.

I've also added an option in settings which allows you to disable support for known bugs such as this. By default any bugs that are known to be live will be supported on the site (assuming I'm aware of them) but I know some folks will want to know what their dps will be when the bugs get fixed, so I've included the option.

Great tool! How is the modelling of ARP trinkets handled with the Analyzer - does it still suffer the limitations of the spreadsheet such as averaging over time or do you correctly model it with a procrate?

You might like to add the T9 2-set bonus as affecting GFtT talent, as dummy testing showed it was giving my pet focus back with only serpent sting up.

Is there any talk on lowering hit cap for the new expansion coming out? All gear from toc has armor pen.

As an Interim step would it be possible to use the PPM data for each trinket? Greatness and Runestone pretty much proc every 45 seconds, you could have it user tweakable too - for example 50 second internal CD. Or have I misunderstood what you meant? Regardless you have made an invaluable tool.

The ArPen from the trinkets is calculated based on estimated uptime taking into account shot frequency and the ICD. If you're above the ArPen cap when the trinket procs, the amount of ArPen taken into account for the buff is reduced accordingly. Then once the uptime is figured out, there's an average amount of ArPen gained over the course of the fight, that's what's used in all the calculations. The problem arises from the fact that ArPen doesn't scale linearly, so although averaging is a decent mechanism for a rough figure, it won't accurately reflect the amount of dps gained based on the proc. A simulation would give a more accurate value, but that's beyond the scope of the analyzer.

It occurs to me this is also an issue when crit capping, since master tactician is also averaged over the course of the fight, but there are some abilities (such as kill shot) which have increased crit chances that will cap out before others, so when they start to cap then master tactician starts to be overvalued a bit. It could be worked around by using an uptime figure instead for master tactician and then calculating the average crit separately for each crit based attack, but that does get a lot messier. I'm not sure anyone's really flirting with the crit cap yet unless they have dark matter and are running as survival spec, but it may be an issue come Icecrown.

I'm also working on including the custom fight buffs that Shandara has implemented in the latest version of the spreadsheet, should have that up sometime this weekend.

I've added the custom fight buff support to the site under the buffs section. I've also added a previous dps to the dps output which will show the last dps you calculated and the difference between that one and your newest dps calculation. I've also added support for serpent sting crits to proc go for the throat, although it won't affect most people's dps output since generally folks are focus capped at higher gear levels anyhow.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention Hagen, not sure how I missed that. Was caused by forgetting to copy over a variable used for the go for the throat ticks when calculating the stat values, should be fixed now.