With the recent decreased cost to Fireball, I feel Improved Scorch looks to be a better alternative to free up 2 points then Cauterize.

It may come with a minimal DPS lose but IMHO Cauterize is too valuable a survivability tool to skip.

Not entirely true Wizeowel, it only changes the mana factor, and I could redo the math to account for that. As long as you have the mana to spare, it should still work out to be a DPS increase, but I'm still leaning on Cauterize as being the easy way to grab those two talent points in order to get Improved Fire Blast.

Personally, if I were to take points out of Improved Scorch, I would put them into Arcane Concentration, as more clear casting procs could mean better mana management for the other spells (instead of just lower mana costs on scorch) Now, I haven't ran any numbers on that change yet, as I'm not sure how to calculate the change in clear casting procs, but it could be an idea.

When using movement raid events in Simulationcraft is it possible to have conditions that depend on time since you last had to move? For example when trying to simulate something like Atramedes with frequent short moves what happens is that Evocation is more often than not interrupted. A real player will plan for when they do Evocation and do it right after the movement to minimize the chance of being interrupted.

Another comment I have is that distraction event used in helter skelter settings is very problematic. A lot of players have come to understand that the settings correspond to more realistic raid encounter where you have to move around and interrupt things. While it is that, it also simulates suboptimal play. While there is a space for analysing how much a spec degrades under suboptimal play I don't believe the two should go together. I would argue that there's a lot more value in knowing how much a spec degrades under raid events while still playing optimally.

Kavan, At present time there is no method of accessing the time since the last move. Nor is there a method to access the "cooldown" of the movement event which might also be useful. I'll work on providing those.

I struggle a great deal with several of the Global options in general and HelterSkelter in particular. I find myself slowly removing options one by one and trimming down the HK setting. Too many bullet-ridden feet out there.

I agree with your assessment on "distraction". Originally, HK was just a "showcase" of the various raid events, but it has somehow transformed into the "more realistic" setting in the eyes of users. Sadly, it is no more "real" than the Patchwerk setting. I have already pruned it a couple times and I believe it will come under the knife again shortly.

No, I didn't even know about it's existance until now. If we really want to include such fancy buffs, we'd also have to include [Crystal of Insight], which as far as I know, every Alliance race could get.

I'll update the racial rankings some times later using the current simcraft profile, there might be some shifts in the ranking.

Could you do those taking my previous post into consideration Cataclysm Mage Simulators and Formulators, posting imprecise information on these boards tends to spread like the plague.

This assumes you have not reforged your least valued stat already. Hit is more like 102.45 rating points of your most valued reforgable stat, because you'll take hit instead of that.

For the question of the racial's influence, I have made a few test with the frost spec. I will only list race with dps bonuses.

Without modification except for Draeneï (reforged hit to mastery):

Race	DPS		%
Undead/Human	24658	0	0%
Draeneï	24785	127	0.52%
Goblin	24804	146	0.59%
Orc	24994	336	1.36%
Troll	24875	217	0.88%
Worgen	24837	179	0.73%

With optimisation for 27% critical rating and 19% haste rating:

Race	DPS		%
Undead/Human	24669	11	0,04%
Draeneï	24789	131	0,53%
Goblin	24825	167	0,68%
Orc	24998	340	1,38%
Troll	24897	239	0,97%
Worgen	24880	222	0,90%

I have also made test with 32% critical rating. It's a dps loss around 1.3% for all race.

Conclusion:

• The race with passive bonus increase the dps between 0.5% and 0.9%. Because of the rating of each stat, Worgen bonuses is better than Draeneï or Goblin but Draeneï can change some blue gem (20intel/20hit to 40 intel).
• Troll racial is very good. It's the better DPET of all race.
• Orc racial is the better. Deep Freeze is 5k above the other and elem's dps is 0.2k above (2500 versus 2300).

It can be interesting if we can test in a moving fight ability like Rocket Jump or Darkflight.

edit: I have used SimC 406-7 that don't show Haste from NP (17.11% instead of 19.45%).
edit #2: update with SimC 406-8 (PTR)

I've wondered about something, regarding frost mages. How is petfreeze implemented? I can't see it in the action priority list. Is it hardcoded to be used on cooldown?

I've asked this myself as well.

We made the pet "smart enough" not to cast Freeze when the mage had any stacks of FoF.

Currently there is no way to do a 2-tick Evocation. I will add an interrupt_if= option that is an expression. This would allow things like:

actions+=/evocation,if=something,interrupt_if=ticks=2&mana_pct>something

There are still some errors with MoE implementation, namely Living Bomb is returning 1411 mana on crits rather than the normal 30%, Flame Orb ticks return 20-21 mana per crit tick (not implemented).