That's only true on items without blue sockets, which is almost none of them right now. Each blue sockets still trades you 6 damage for a socket bonus (2 damage) and either 7 stamina or 4 spirit. That seems never worth it to me. Even if the piece had two yellow and one blue socket for +5 damage, you have a net loss of 2 spell damage for 4 spirit or 7 stamina. The only blue socket you use is the T6 helm, because it's -1 damage for +7 stamina, or twice as good.

Are there enough pieces with only yellow or red sockets that you can gain the 6 to 10 spell damage loss by trading Mystical Skyfire Diamond for +14 spell damage, +2% int? I just don't see it.

Speaking as someone with a fairly high eval of haste: I won't be regemming my T6 gloves. That's just silly. I might consider picking up the T6 legs and using them on a shadow token, but that's really hard to justify - an extra leg enchant plus wasting the LCE/3xspinel I'm running as is? Since ESD has the easiest requirement EVER (>3 red), there's no real reason to regem a 50/50.

Keeping the T6 bonus as you gear is going to be interesting, for sure - on the brightish side, the tokens drop before any of the H/C/S/G replacement items do, so you can probably get a belt/bracer/boot before you lose a T6 piece.

OK i'm trying to code my own dps simulator to see how spell haste will affect shadowpriest's spell rotation but i'm having some problems with it... Can anyone help with it? I'm a bit noob about this programming stuff...

Here it is:


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void globalcd(int vt, int swp, int swd, int mb, int ve, int t, int gcd)
// This function represents the time flow, we consider the time has passed equal to gcd everytime we call this function.
// vt,swp,swd,mb,ve values are spell cooldown counters (dot durations are considered cooldowns). Gcd is global cooldown.
// When a spell is NOT on cooldown, that means its cooldown counter is equal to a greater number than it's cooldown.
// t is time (miliseconds)
{
t=t+gcd;
swp=swp+gcd;
vt=vt+gcd;
ve=ve+gcd;
mb=mb+gcd;
swd=swd+gcd;
}

int main()
{
int vt, swp, swd, mb, ve, t, gcd, tmax, n_vt, n_swp, n_mb, n_ve, n_swd, n_mf, totalmanaspent, spellhasterating, spellhaste;
// n_vt represents how many times we cast v_nt in our spell rotation


t=0;
swp=vt=swd=mb=ve= 100000; // We set the initial values high, to represent no spell is on cooldown.
n_vt= n_swp= n_mb= n_ve= n_swd= n_mf= 0;
printf("Enter your spell haste rating\n");
scanf("%d",&spellhasterating);
spellhaste = spellhasterating / 15;
gcd = 1500 - spellhaste;
printf("How long is the combat? (In miliseconds)\n");
scanf("%d",&tmax);

while (t<=tmax);
{

if (vt>= 15000) // Casts VT if not on cd
{
globalcd(vt, swp, swd, mb, ve, t, gcd);
vt = 0;
n_vt ++;
}
else if (swp>=24000) // Casts SW: P
{
globalcd(vt, swp, swd, mb, ve, t, gcd);
swp = 0;
n_swp ++;
}

else if (ve>=60000) // Casts VE
{
globalcd(vt, swp, swd, mb, ve, t, gcd);
ve = 0;
n_ve ++;
}

else if (mb>=5500) // Casts MB
{
globalcd(vt, swp, swd, mb, ve, t, gcd);
mb = 0;
n_mb ++;
}

else if (swd>=12000) // Casts SW: D
{
globalcd(vt, swp, swd, mb, ve, t, gcd);
swd = 0;
n_swd ++;
}
else //Casts Mind Flay
{
globalcd(vt, swp, swd, mb, ve, t, gcd);
globalcd(vt, swp, swd, mb, ve, t, gcd);
n_mf ++;
}
}

totalmanaspent = (195*n_mf) + (382*n_mb) + (425*n_vt) + (52*n_ve) + (309*n_swd) + (575*n_swp);
printf("In your spell rotation; \n Number of VT casts = %d\n Number of SW: P casts = %d\n Number of MB casts = %d\n Number of SW: D casts = %d\n Number of VE casts = %d\n Number of MF casts = %d\n", n_vt,n_swp,n_mb,n_swd,n_ve,n_mf);
printf("Total mana spent = %d\n", totalmanaspent);
return 0;
}

Currently the output is this:
Enter your spellhaste rating:
286
How long is the combat (in miliseconds)?
360000

And that's it. It never gets to the loop part. Where is the problem?

Thanks all

Thanks for your help guys, the program works as intended now. I know this was a irrelevant topic, but i didn't know where to find people with both knowledge in c language and wow.