i use an addon called ButtonTimers. this allows me to place a duration monitor closer to my tunnel* with a few neat features:
- cast button can be added to the footer of the timer, allowing immediate reapplication via mouse click (but really, you should be keybinding something as important as inq if you got as far as EJ)
- second state point for the timer. what this means is when the timer reaches a certain point, it will change in some way. for example: when the timer reaches 2 seconds its gauge length is reset to full with the remaining 2 seconds as its count down, and changes to red in colour. this ensures when you refresh inq you benefit from the DoT tick inheritance.

I haven't used clc for a while but last time i did it was called clcpt or clcbt, and when something was about to drop off (such as inq) it would flash an icon in the middle of the screen with a tone sound. that should help track buffs also.

Buttontimers allows for tracking of multiple buffs at once. some others worth tracking would be:
- Censure on primary target/focus target (it will also track the stacks for you)
- Sacred Shield on self/focus target
- Selfless on self (it will also track the stacks and proc shiney for you)
- ES on self/primary target/focus target (this is good for pvp when timing the final explosion with a hard hit to take out healers on low hp who think they can be cheeky sods and hover on 30% health without consequences)
- hand spells on friendly targets (good for tracking HoF in pvp when someone spams spellsteal/dispel on you)

look, to put it simply it lets you track buffs and debuffs that you would normally have to check corners or player frames for in more suitable locations

*Tunnel = area of the screen around your toon that extends to proc graphics, but ignores the other 90% of the screen.

To Paraphrase:

I dont quite understand how you come to the conclusion that 4 is the lucky number here, as the defining circumstance is situational, not a hard line figure. some fights will have 100% melee range uptime, others will differ greatly. Treat this glyph as a fight-by-fight decision.

This may prove useful in select circumstances, however these circumstances are going to be incredibly rare.

In short, while the relationship between these glyphs remains as it is, if you can justify adding harsh words to your glyph table you can basically justify adding wog glyph for the same reason; its there because you plan on using it at some stage, and you might as well receive as much compensated benefit for using it over TV/inq.

Good example fight for this is Elegon. the constant running in and out to reset your stacks may put you in the following position:

- you are carrying 5HP
- your inq is up
- you are not within melee range of boss
- you have at least 1 HP generating ability off CD, or will be off CD just as you reach boss + a GCD to burn the HP

sounds like a 1 in a million situation right? not when your trying to concentrate on all the other crap happening, and clcret wont tell you to burn HP right before your expected to reset stacks. this happens somewhat regularly.

also handy for when you kill your assigned orb early, and need to fire a quick nuke at someone elses, and given that you just burned your HoW on your own orb thus generating HP as you were completing your outward run to reset your stacks, firing the wog at the dwindling neighbour orb and granting yourself a nice damage boost ready to be utilized as you reach melee range on the boss... you see where im going here.
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EDIT: just to clarify Exemplars initial point, this is most definitely NOT a substitute for max dps when you are in melee range. HP should be reserved for inq and TV at ALL times when within swing distance. its benefits come from times outside melee range

EVERY GLYPH is situational in benefit until proven otherwise or modified by bliz.

I think the line of thinking at the time he wrote that was that Glyph of Mass Exorcism would cause an Exorcism cast on a single target to do only 25% damage. However, we now know that the glyph instead causes the primary target to take the full 100% damage and all secondary targets take 25% damage each. The primary target does not take the additional 25%.



The first 3 hits you see are 3 different Exorcism casts without the glyph. The next 2 lines are the result of an Exorcism cast with the glyph onto two targets. The final two lines are also the result of an Exorcism cast with the glyph onto two targets, with the hit on the primary target being a critical strike. So it appears that each target has an independent chance to be crit, and damage on secondary targets does not automatically do double damage if the roll on the primary target is a crit.

From simple target dummy tests, I'm currently seeing it pull ahead at 3 rather than 4, but my tests could be inaccurate due to missing raid buffs/debuffs. It appears that we're benefiting from double dipping on Inquisition here. Inquisition increases the Holy/AoE portion of HotR by 30%. HoL hits for an additional 14.8%+ damage. The HoL damage is increased by Inquisition by 30% again.

The single target, physical portion of the HotR strike generates an additional HoL hit. e.g. if you use HotR on a single target, both the physical and holy portions of the strike generate separate HoL hits. Have you accounted for both of these in your calculations?

So I'm sitting around 474 item level, and simcraft is telling me that crit is ahead of mastery for my gear. Is this just a bug in simcraft, or is this accurate? It has the weights at 0.97 for crit and 0.90 for mastery. I ran a 25k iteration to get all the stat weights, then ran it again at 50k with only mastery/crit scaling checked to make sure they were accurate. Is there something I'm missing here? Every buff/debuff was checked on, including crit and mastery buffs. The OP has mastery being slightly better, is it possible that fluxuates with changes in gear?

From the OP (emphasis mine):

Stat weights rely on what stats you have available with your current gear and do fluctuate with changes in gear, as you say. Crit and Mastery are relatively close with your stat weights, but because your gear is different than full T14 Heroic, you may see different weights than what is in the OP. Crit and Mastery remain somewhat interchangeable (second part of my quote) but if you have more Crit than Mastery, Simcraft will probably recommend reforging some of the higher into the lower to balance it. That's likely what you're seeing.

i wasnt aware the statement you made was an example rather than fact. my bad

If you had to make a choice between crit and mastery, and you happen to be sporting [Coren's Cold Chromium Coaster] then you should try push for a bit more crit than mastery, as this trinket requires a crit to be proc'd.
as was written in a previous post somewhere, this trinket is terrible in comparison to 463 trinkets from dungeons (which tanks keep stealing form me) so only do this if you are left with no other option

seeing that crit and mastery are very close, my question is: do sims take under consideration warrior skull banners rotates during cds, and if the dont, would the presence of these banners (say, 80% of the time?) during cds tip the scales in favor of crit above mastery?

I don't believe SimC currently models skull banners during our cds because a) not all raids have warriors and b) it's very unlikely that they will time their banners to line up with our cds.

I'm a little confused on the reasoning behind Execution Sentence being the strictly better solution for single-target fights. Yes, because of that strictly-better spell power scaling, it will pull ahead of Holy Prism past a certain point. I won't even try to deny that. My concern is prior to that point: That is, what is the spell power requirement for Execution Sentence to pull ahead of Holy Prism on single-target encounters?

The following table lists the time between casts of Holy Prism, and the amount of spell power required for Execution Sentence's damage to be equivalent to Holy Prism's damage. Since I'm lazy and didn't want to actually calculate out different cast times for Execution Sentence, the assumption is that Execution Sentence gets cast exactly when available. This works out for the comparison anyway, as any delay in Execution Sentence's cast ends up being favorable to Holy Prism.

Time	Spell power
20s	21441
21.5s	16425
23s	13165.5

I would think this means that Holy Prism pulls ahead of Execution Sentence on single-target fights for now, wouldn't it? Or is there something else I'm missing? Doing a quick look-through of several armory profiles here, a couple of you would be above the 13k spell power mark when raid-buffed, but it seems the average is decently below that point.

Edited to add:
I didn't bother comparing the aoe damage between Holy Prism and Light's Hammer, as I'm fairly certain Light's Hammer is just plain better at any number of targets above 1, and definitely better at numbers above 5.

EDIT: I can't read apparently, please delete.