MoE refunds 30% of the base cost of a spell. It doesn't matter if the spell is free (like with Clearcasting) or if it costs extra (Arcane Blast stacked). So a crit with a spell while Clearcasting is a mana gain.

The base cost of Pyroblast! is 0, so we get nothing back from MoE. It probably should have a base cost equal to Pyroblast's, with HS making it free in the same way Clearcasting does. A Hot Streak Pyroblast! should refund mana with MoE.

Thank you looks to be working ok now, the only issue for fire I know of at the moment is the interaction between Critical Mass and Mastery as in they stack additively.

I've been able to improve the Arcane rotation a bit (~800 dps) by:

- Making sure the sim doesn't spam AB until OOM, instead it stops spamming at 25% mana and evo's back up.
- Trying to end the fight at zero mana by spamming AB in the last 20s of a fight, as well as using all cooldowns that pop up in that phase. This works most of the time, except when the end of a burn phase happens to be at <20s before the end. The sim can run OOM some seconds too soon in that case. I don't really know how to prevent this.
- Using cooldowns only at 3 or more stacks. Seems like a small DPS gain.
- Using PoM + AB every cooldown. Another small DPS gain.

The new mana timeline looks like ~80% average mana over the whole fight (7m in this case):


Here's the data:
The BiS lists could use some work (like using Crown of the Twilight Queen as off-piece to T11, and maybe Shard of Woe instead of the crit trinket), is there some tool to create these or are they edited by hand?

edit: forum seems to be messing with the code, delete the space in "buff.arcane_ blast.stack<3"

I'll put your rules into the profile when I get home - I should be able to prevent the OOM issue as well. Thanks!

Edit:

Updated the source file and the profiles with Maje's changes to Fire priority list and Silverwind's changes to Arcane. Also implemented conditions for casting Molten and Mage Armor, which allowed me to have Frost switch from Molten to Mage at 15% mana. It will never switch back, and will evocate if mana drops below 5%. It can go literally forever like this, and it gains some 60-80 DPS in the five-minute encounter.

Something that I haven't figured out yet is the DPS Timeline. It is obviously an average, but is it taken over a time frame, a weighted time frame, over the iterations (does not look like that to me)?


What I cannot see from the graphs alone is whether Arcane Blast spam at 25% is better or worse than the Conservation Cycle at 95%. And if it is better, then by how much?

More important and more general is the following question: When ignoring Mana Adept, how does the damage D_AB := 1s of AB spam + Xs of Evocation (the mana needed for 1 spammed AB) compare to D_CS := (1+X)s of Conservation Cycle? (Here, more max. mana improves both parts - it shortens Evocation time and allows for a more powerful Conservation Cycle.) Once we have this damage ratio, we can calculate how much Mana Adept A% and current mana M% we need such that (1+A%*M%)*D_AB is more damage than (1+A%*95%)*D_CS.

This allows us to find out (given a certain amount of Mastery) whether we should drain our mana with AB spam down to 25% or whether we should stop at 40% and save one tick of Evocation. AB damage, AB mana, AB cast time, Mana Adept, etc. are just too many non-linear mechanics to determine this in general.


[Edit]: Thanks for the info. I'd like to point out another potential issue than is not fixed by smaller time slices. Image one iteration with a burn phase from 0:10 to 0:30 and a second iteration with a burn phase from 0:20 to 0:40, both followed by 5s Evocation. Averaging those two, you get a semi-burn from 0:10 to 0:20, a full burn from 0:20 to 0:30. From 0:30 to 0:35 your average mana goes up to 60% while being at half burn DPS, then drops as a semi-burn from 0:35 to 0:40 and goes up to 95% from 0:40 to 0:45 with half-conserving DPS.

We're calculating the average performance per timeslice, but the more interisting data is actually the average time at which the mana bar drops to a certain value. I don't think it's a real issue for right now since we have a lot of iterations and the mana timelines look really good. Just something to keep in mind when reading those graphs and what they mean.

The timelines in SimC are a bit mushy.

The course of a fight is sliced into 1sec buckets. Every time damage is done, resource is consumed, or current resource is monitored, the value is added into the appropriate time-slice. This is a running total over all iterations.

When the sim is finished iterating, the value at each time-slice is divided by the number of iterations.

The DPS timeline is populated by looking at the damage done over the period Time-10sec to Time+10sec (subject to bounds).

EDIT: Roywyn, I like seeing those graphs vertically stacked. I'll change the output so that is the norm.

EDIT2: We had a long-standing Issue in which the tail end of graphs bottomed-out do to varying fight lengths. This has been resolved with r5947.

Does the behaviour of Evocation change after level 80? At level 80, it is only returning 60% total, not 75%. The arcane thread concurs with this - it would appear that the tooltip ingame is incorrect. This would change your stop values to 55% (skipping one tick) and 40% (using full Evocation).


[Edit:] Ahh, apologies. Because the numbers matched up with the incorrect tooltip numbers, I made a quick assumption and forgot about mage armor/replenishment.

I am wondering why in all the frost test your not crit capped? Is it because of SimC config? Because in both 359 and 379, it can be possible to obtain the crit cap whithout Molten Armor.
I have made a proposal for a 372 Frost BiS here.

Frost with Frostfirebolt as filler seems to be quite good (~100 DPS less then normal Frost):
- Replace Frostbolt glyph with Icelance glyph.
- Cast Frostbolt when Early Frost is up.


Edit:
This was done with simc-403-7. It seems Version 403-9 broke the Early Frost Function.

Edit2:
My Fault. Version 403-9 no longer has Early Frost in the BIS Frost Sim.

The set I'm using in the simulations crit-caps Ice Lance due to the set bonus. Reforging or regemming to shift additional haste or mastery to crit consistently reduces the final numbers. That doesn't necessarily mean the set can't be improved, but shifting crit doesn't seem to improve it.

Power: that action list would almost never hard-cast Frostfire Bolt; it would cast Frostbolt unless you had Early Frost, not if you had Early Frost. Change that line to:

actions+=/frostbolt,if=buff.early_frost.react

A quick run here puts it around 500 DPS lower than using Frostbolt filler.

I have forgot that it's also a 200 spell power loss. After a bit of reflexion, if I put Food and Flask in consideration, I can obtain: 7175 ps, 1737 hit, 1204 haste, 2170 crit and 921 mastery (by reforging/regemming). I can also add +160 Intel form Enchant/Jewel. Theoricaly, With Crit > Haste, this stuff could be a dps increase.

edit: Fro the FB/FFB discussion, what about hard casting FFB for refreshing the 3 stacked DOT ?