I have been running some (very basic) sims of AoE healing behavior for disc priest. While I was looking over some of my results, I noticed that my overall HPS (labeled DPS ofc) doesn't add up.
You can see this in the posted samples at the beginning of this thread, too. In the run Priest_Disc_AE_T12N, PoH contributes 38k, PoH aegis 12k, and there are 3 other sources of healing. Total HPS for that run is listed as 45k, but if I add up the left hand column it'd be 59k.
I'm just curious which figure is inaccurate, that's all. Maybe it's some adjustment for activity time? Thanks A number of searches on EJ/google gave me no info.
That´s because of the child/parent stats system simulationcraft has. If you just add up all stats together you will double count the child stats.
In the case of discipline priests, Divine Aegis is included into its source spell to give total HPE and HPET numbers for the source spell. Same goes for PoH and PW:S Glyph and other things.
Ok. Simed it.
NON heroic version of NEW Capacitor shows ~600dps increase in T12H profile (replace DMC:V).
Go and farm it my fellow shadow priests!
For simcraft lovers:
trinket1=variable_pulse_lightning_capacitor,ilevel=384,quality=epic,stats=406int,equi p=onspellcrit_3808.5nature_15%_10stack_2.5cd_chance,suffix=0
Ok. Simed it.
NON heroic version of NEW Capacitor shows ~600dps increase in T12H profile (replace DMC:V).
Go and farm it my fellow shadow priests!
For simcraft lovers:
trinket1=variable_pulse_lightning_capacitor,ilevel=384,quality=epic,stats=406int,equi p=onspellcrit_3808.5nature_15%_10stack_2.5cd_chance,suffix=0
Im not sure that it was simmed right way. AFAIK capacitor dont get charge from dot crits, but simcraft charge it from all crits. so results may vary VERY much. Need help =)
That´s because of the child/parent stats system simulationcraft has. If you just add up all stats together you will double count the child stats.
In the case of discipline priests, Divine Aegis is included into its source spell to give total HPE and HPET numbers for the source spell. Same goes for PoH and PW:S Glyph and other things.
The rule of thumb right now is that if you see spells named "XXX" and "XXX_YYY" in the damage output, then the damage/healing/absorb from "XXX_YYY" is included in the DPS, DPS%, DPE, and DPET of "XXX" (but not the Hit/Crit/Max or Crit%/Avoid%/etc). This has been true of "devouring_plague" and "devouring_plague_burst" for a long time, most people just haven't noticed.
For Disc, we thought it made the most sense for DA and glyphs of PoH/PWS to be included in the stats for the trigger spell so the DPE number you see really reflects how much total healing+absorb you get from that cast. As a consequence, Disc has more of these parent/child spell relationships than I believe any other spec.
Simcraft version 420-8
I tried to sim Heroic Ragnaros 3rd phase burn situation and have some problems.
First of all I add those lines after "#!./simc "
Rest of simulation profile was imported from bnet as usual.
And after that results seems strange. Bloodlust doesnt appear in dynamic buffs (wasnt cast), SWD DPET ~8k (lol what) and Sorrowsong buff uptime ~20% (should be ~40-45%) and battle lasts 500sec (I know that I sim only myself, and simcraft thinks that I soloed Ragnaros from 38% to 8%. In real 3rd phase has to be ~100sec, so I should reduce some target_health).
Without the initial_target_health, the sim tries to dynamically match the target health ( better use 10´000 than 1´000 iterations ) so that you get around a 100s fight, including increased execute damage.
There are also new charts hidden in the ability stats, where you can see a dps timeline for each stats, e.g. SW: D.
And I just fixed a small error in the first iteratation health calculation, r9599.
Last edited by Caltiom : 09/15/11 at 3:49 AM.
Reason: swd smilie
Without the initial_target_health, the sim tries to dynamically match the target health ( better use 10´000 than 1´000 iterations ) so that you get around a 100s fight, including increased execute damage.
There are also new charts hidden in the ability stats, where you can see a dps timeline for each stats, e.g. SW: D.
And I just fixed a small error in the first iteratation health calculation, r9599.
I added a new report to show the things Simulationcraft is capable of regarding target options, tank mechanics and newly introduced overheal report.
This example report simulates a high-end geared protection warrior tanking the main target, which does hit him with a 2sec melee attack and a 25s cooldown spell nuke. Then there is a discipline priest healing the tank in a reactive way, instead of spaming through the whole fight.
The new & interesting things are:
- The Warrior deaths report, where a distribution, average and min/max death times can be found.
- On the Priest overhealing values can be found on each extended stats, composite and sorted by result. These won't be very high in this particular simulation, but with a healer spaming throughout the whole fight, they will.
- Generally on the priest, all healing values ( HPS, HPET, etc. ) are calculated with the actual amount healed and not the total amount. Renew is specifically interesting to look at, because it now provides competetive HPET and when compared to a no-renew sim, it decreases tank deaths to some degree.
- On the target you can look at the results of his melee attack, particulary how much avoids, block or hits where landed on the tank. The overkill% values indicate that the rare cases where the tank got hit by a normal non-blocked hit, the probability of a tank death is above average.
Keep in mind that both healing & tanking in sim is still experimental, and there are certainly some flaws in the code or things just plain missing. Discipline Priests, Warrior and Paladin Tanks should be well established, but the others specs are painfully neglected.
I've just checked in the Shadow Priest Tier 13 set bonuses as announced on Patch 4.3: Tier 13 Set Bonuses - MMO-Champion BlueTracker. I decided to assume that Masochism will be fixed so that it works with the 2pc set bonus.
I played around a bit with a Mind Spike and Mind Blast rotation during Shadowfiend but I couldn't get it to beat the normal rotation. Overall at present the Tier 13 set bonuses are slightly weaker than the Tier 12 set bonuses.
To test the bonuses with the latest SVN version of SimulationCraft be sure to turn on PTR (ptr=1 on the commandline version) and override the set bonuses with: tier12_2pc_caster=0 tier12_4pc_caster=0 tier13_2pc_caster=1 tier13_4pc_caster=1
I simmed it on my char (Taradenha - Azralon) and got almost 500 dps increase over the default action list, I didn't test the BiS profile, but make sure to put the berserking line if you're simming a troll profile.
The list is not yet finished and I'll work on it over the weekend, some things I think can be improved are:
Use a conditional to not recast VT if MSp phase is about to start. I tried this line actions+=/vampiric_touch,if=(!ticking|dot.vampiric_touch.remains<cast_time+2*gcd)&miss_react&(c ooldown.archangel.remains>=3*gcd|cooldown.shadow_fiend.remains>=3*gcd) I think i made some mistake because even when I use "0.1" instead of "3*gcd" I get a slight decrease in DPS but the 0.1 setting shouldn't have any impact in DPS.
Use more general commands, these lines work well with the pacthwerk fight because the expected shadowfiend CD is about 90s so you're never waiting too much time waiting for either shadow fiend or archangel, but in a heavy movement fight shadowfiend CD will be much higher and it won't be optimal to delay archangel for so long.
Simcraft uses 4 gcds to build the 5 stacks of dark evangelism but in the game you can just mash the MF key to cast it again while channeling the first MF so you get 5 stacks while casting only 3 ticks so you're saving 2 gcds while you probably have a lot of procs on.
and:
I finally got an action list that improves the BiS profile dps.
Interestingly, this list is worse than the other list I posted for my own char, I'm guessing this is due to dots scaling better with spell power than MSp and also the higher crit and haste, in the BiS profile the expected cd of SF is about 65s, delaying SF was a slight dps decrease in this case.
I think the MSp phase might still be used in the middle of the bis profile rotation, but I need a better list and better reforging.
I'm posting here because it will get more attention and any help on this matter is appreciated.
Is there a way to disable mana gains to show on the log?
09/06/11, 2:56 AM
A number of searches on EJ/google gave me no info.
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