Is anyone else having trouble using Shadowcraft? It hasn't been loading my character or it will load it but then reforging times out. Seems to have started yesterday.

same problem here ='(

Noticing some slow behaviour, for example having to change specs a couple of times before any change is shown.

Also, DPS appears to have increased for me despite no gear changes. Has the modelling been updated?

Edit: My mistake, hadn't noticed that I was using IE on this occasion.

Having to change spec (points) to force dps to display is a problem I've had with IE9 since it was installed. When using Chrome, I've never experienced that problem - dps is displayed immediately.

I'm going to guess that you're misreading it, and that you're not spell hit capped. Therefore, pulling off the Shadowcraft page currently for your character, Spell hit is 1.39 EP and Mastery is 1.36 EP, which is why it is telling you to reforge into hit.

Just something worth noting. If I load up my character and click re-forge, despite re-forging this morning I get told to reforge to a 13.5 loss of DPS. If I press it again it changes and I re-forge back, gaining that 13.5 back.

If I am optimised, should I not stay optimised, or is the math that close that it constantly tries to juggle the numbers?

This question should really go in some sort of FAQ by now, there seems to be one of this type on every other page now.

It is.

And I just noticed, I already answered that question on this very same page.

At the risk of getting a warning (I cannot help myself) you can also hit the button a whole 2 times! I know that may be asking alot, but damn, these guys work so hard at this and don't need an unappreciating whiner like you messing up the forums.

The ShadowCraft tool is amazing and the best calculator out there for any class, ever, but it is just a tool. Think for yourself instead of relying on pure numbers or write something yourself if you think you can do better.

The feature itself is a reasonable one, check the reforged DPS first and don't change if it is a loss. However it's also probably pretty low priority on the feature list because you can in fact click twice and use the higher one.

To be fair on other optimization tools the stat weight are probably not dynamic, which is what causes the reforge to oscillate in Shadowcraft, and other tools usually recommend sub-optimal reforges, reforging away from the optimal setup that Shadowcraft gives me.

I think disabling the button is a bad solution - if it gives me a bad reforge the first time, I'd like to be able to correct that.

Fundamentally, the problem is that actually computing the true optimal reforge takes a really long time; hence, ShadowCraft uses EP values instead of working out the full DPS calculation for every reforge, and uses some clever logic to focus on the reforges that are most likely to be useful to you. But sometimes that clever logic fails to find the best reforges, and sometimes the EP values change enough that it works out to be a DPS loss even if it looked good via EP. And that's unfortunate, certainly, but it's the price you pay for having a reforge button that runs in a couple of seconds instead of a couple of minutes (or even hours). And realistically, given that the underlying calculations aren't perfect anyway, the fact that your reforge is occasionally a handful of DPS off doesn't really reduce the accuracy of the tool by a significant margin.

I can confirm 502 error right now (it also happened yesterday few times for me).

Google Chrome, clearing cookies doesn't help.