For some unknown reason Rawr enables me to dps while being oom, i.e. it chooses armor, spell cycles etc. such that in "sequence reconstruction" it will show for prolonged periods " out of mana", while the dps curve is still not zero at these intervals.

edit: nevermind, "segment cooldowns" and SMP limit = 5000 helps in this case

I like how Rawr now shows how much hit until cap, it would be nice if it also showed how much hit over cap. I know, lazymode!

With arcane taking more advantage of intellect now, will RAWR be including [Darkmoon Card: Greatness] into the modeling? It seems like it would be terribly difficult to do.

There are so many different ways I have thought of to use it (and probably many I haven't thought of!). It would increase evocation gains on proc and the SP/crit buff on proc. Also having a passive larger mana pool wouldn't hurt. I have not seen any discussion on this card with the new spec released today.

I mentioned the 6% damage (3% from each stack) from Ferocious Inspiration that Rawr doesn't seem to model currently, but there's also another buff I noticed was missing: Enhancing Totems. This adds 21.6 (on top of its 144) spell power.

If it ever takes longer than like 1min on a decent machine, it's not going to finish, as far as I've seen. Only the sequence reconstruction is off. (Basically, it knows that theoretically, based on everything, your DPS should be 'this', since you can stack these cooldowns and use these cycles during each of those cooldowns... but it can't figure out the right order to put those cooldowns on the timeline, so as to match up.)

Download - Rawr - Release: Rawr 2.1.8

Recent Changes:
v2.1.8:
Fixed a bug in the Optimizer that would stop it from equipping the optimized gearset when any item gemmings to be equipped weren't in the itemcache already.
Fixed several bugs with Wowhead parsing, and updated the default itemcache with the new 3.0.8 data from Wowhead.
Added the two new enchants from 3.0.8.
Rawr.Healadin: Removed profession benefits from Options since they are now all correctly modelled in there respective places. Support for Judgements missing, and effect of Hit rating. Fixed bug that capped HL too high incorrectly. Added support for FoL Glyph. Updated 2T6 and 4T6 bonuses.
Rawr.HolyPriest: Raid & CoH spam rotation changes for 3.0.8. Major tweak in Holy/Disc Priest mana consumption, should now actually become saturated at a point. Fiddled more with Trinkets.
Rawr.Tankadin: Adjusted calculations for new Sacred Duty.
Rawr.Retribution: Fix for loading the saved glyphs.
Rawr.Tree: New custom chart for Spell Rotations. New feature to choose the ratio of burst vs sustained healing used in Overall ratings.
Rawr.Mage: Added Arcane Scorch cycles.
Rawr.Cat: Added 4T7 calculations.
Rawr.ProtWarr: Tweak to the Vitality calculations to match WoW's rounding.

Well to be more accurrate, the numbers without SMP enabled (this is segment cooldowns and integral mana consumables) are an upper bound which from practice seems to be not more than 1% from true optimum in most cases, very often the error is in the 0.1% range. If SMP completes with best bound method (without warning about reaching limit), then that is guaranteed to be the optimum, barring any modeling mistakes or numerical instability error and in that case the reconstruction should be successful in most cases.

Anyway, as suggested in the first post, go read the advanced options section on Rawr - Home to get a better idea of how things work. There is a reason why these settings are on the advanced tab, mainly because it's a good idea that you know what you're doing before you fiddle with them. Another reason is that it is far from complete as you can see from occasional dead loops. Not all problems are fixable as there are some issues that are limited by design, but if you find a case where reconstruction fails with SMP not giving a warning (having both segment cooldowns and integral mana consumables enabled for display, using either best bound or depth first method) then open a new issue and attach the problematic xml so I can investigate it. I can't promise anything as I still have some backlog of problematic reconstructions, but if you don't let me know about the problems chances of me fixing them are much lower.

Also if after reading the wiki you still have some questions about how the SMP works and what are the limitations I'll be glad to answer any questions you might have.

There are 2 "Talent Specs" and "Talents" in the .Mage module that show vastly different numbers. Also, what's the difference between "Item budget" and "Relative stat values"?

Small bug report -- the interaction between Frostbite and Improved Blizzard has been fixed (removed) in 3.0.8. I can confirm that on live, Frostbite is not necessary for Improved Blizzard / Fingers of Frost to proc properly.

Rawr.mage does not yet model this, only giving the proper damage boost when Frostbite is also taken in a spec (for AoE).

I just posted this in another thread:

Item Budget compares the value of stats, accounting for their item budget cost. Relative Stat Values compares the value of stats, without accounting for item budget costs. For example, suppose on the Relative Stat Values chart, you see that mp5 is worth slightly more than spirit. Does that mean you should stack mp5 over spirit? No, because mp5 costs more of the item budget. You can have 10spr on an item, or 4mp5. If 1 mp5 is only slightly better than 1 spr, you'd obviously want the 10spr over the 4mp5. The Item Budget chart shows these stats, in terms of their value by item budget. Those values are shown on the name of the row in the chart.