There used to be a mage general information thread. This thread covered mage basics that was common to all specs and had other additional useful information in the first post such as what classes shared similar buff effects and similar debuff effects. With it gone from the mage subsection I looked about for an archived threads place yet didn't see one. So my question is, what other classes put up a Critical Mass type effect on targets and what spell/ability do they have that does this?

Which is the best way to interpret the simc results to apply them into my reforges/gems/enchants? I was analyzing the scale factors and then reforging into the better stat presented there.

I personally prefer to use RAWR to evaluate these changes and upgrades. But yes, generally reforge from the lesser stat to the higher weighted stat. I've also found WoW Reforge Calculator & Optimizer to be handy with this. Just input your stat weight and give it guidelines and click go. You can do it without guidelines as well.

If the goal is to be final users of a setup and we're not doing any special research, it is highly problematic to start with SimCraft and follow with Rawr. We should start from Rawr and ideally verify with SimCraft. This is because SimCraft can not simultaneously simulate with all the items we have available, with all the available combinations on them (gems, reforges, enchants). It will require a lot of trial and error to find the outcomes with every single item and stat combination that are available.

On top of that, one may fall into a trap: the game is not simple; if one is not aware of certain "soft caps" or other similar conditions, merely stacking a stat on Rawr without using the Optimization tool or starting with a Simulator by merely stacking a stat, there may appear to be an impressive DPS increase roadmap. However, that may be a false positive since reaching - or surpassing - a so called "soft cap" or other similar condition may produce an abruptly different outcome.

I've been using Rawr for quite a while now and on my last run of it, it has started leaving my hit at 15%. I always make sure I have the hit rating set at > 17 and until now it's always done a perfect job at making sure my hit stays at or very close to or even just a hair above 17%. I was just wondering if something within Rawr changed, or is this an error on my part, etc.

My mage has 1746 hit rating (so the tooltip estimates my chance to miss raid bosses at 0%). Why have I seen misses from my living bomb on trash mobs in 5 mans?

(I searched the other threads for 'miss' and didn't see any discussion of this topic).

Which instance? Can you remember the name of the mobs?

I was in ZA, and I believe it was one of the packs with the flame casters. I've looked through some of the mob's abilities on Wowhead and I don't see anything relevant. I'll watch again next time I go through there.

Some mobs there become immune to all attacks. Perhaps the "miss" you saw was an immune, but whatever tool you used (Recount, RSA, etc) displayed the text "miss".

Combustion combines dots, is it usefull to use a spellpower-trinket with combustion, or should i use the trinket to get high ignites for combustion?

As of my last testing, Int/SP trinkets would need to be active when you cast combustion in order to boost the contribution of LB/pyro. It is irrelevant whether or not they are active when you last refreshed the LB/pyro dots (for the purpose of combustion).

Now, you still might want to use them ahead of time to try to get a good ignite, but I haven't run the probabilities to see which is likely to give you better damage.