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Old 10/08/09, 6:28 AM   #1471
hihu
Glass Joe
 
Dwarf Priest
 
Ysondre (EU)
There's a scroll bar at the bottom of the sheet, being in 1280*960 res forces me to scroll right to change glyphs and spec.
If you don't pay attention after doing it you will think "all colours are gone, and all of my stuff is gone" while you are actually looking at the "Optimal" column and not the "Current" column. You only have to scroll back to the left :o
Happened to me a couple times before i figured it out.

Last edited by hihu : 10/08/09 at 6:34 AM.

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Old 10/08/09, 6:50 AM   #1472
jorysaywut
Von Kaiser
 
Night Elf Mage
 
Windrunner
killarss, are you sure that the 3.2 option of armor pen is turned on in your spreadsheet settings? I was showing the gloves to be more DPS than the chest until I turned that on. Otherwise, I don't know what the deal is.

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Old 10/08/09, 9:17 AM   #1473
weirdaljr
Von Kaiser
 
Blood Elf Rogue
 
Llane
Originally Posted by sp00n View Post
I had this very same thing happen to me yesterday (Excel 2007 on Windows7). Closing and reopening the file made it work again for me. Haven't seen such a behaviour before, so I shrugged it off as a fluke.
IIRC I was playing with the glyphs when this happened. Or more precisely, removed Evi glyph so only 2 glyphs were active (to emulate FoK glyph), alt tabbed here, alt tabbed there, and when I changed back in after some time, the fluke appeared.

Didn't try to reproduce it yet.

I can confirm I had the same bug happen twice. Closing and reopening did fix it one time and the second time it was mistakenly saved after bug occurred before I was aware. I did not post yet as I am unaware of the specific sheet change I preformed that caused it each time, but I do believe it was in relation to a spec and/or glyph adjustment.

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Old 10/08/09, 9:25 AM   #1474
killarss
Banned
 
Gnome Rogue
 
Alterac Mountains
Originally Posted by jorysaywut View Post
killarss, are you sure that the 3.2 option of armor pen is turned on in your spreadsheet settings? I was showing the gloves to be more DPS than the chest until I turned that on. Otherwise, I don't know what the deal is.
Yes, as having 735 ArP was soft capping me when using Runestone. I'll upload my exact file when I arrive back home, but I am back at work again unfortunately.

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Old 10/08/09, 10:33 AM   #1475
nelalas
Von Kaiser
 
Human Rogue
 
Lightbringer
Originally Posted by Jarush View Post
I don't know what is your problem.
To clarify, since people seem to be having a problem here, this was the original comment to which I responded:

Originally Posted by Professor Hurt View Post
Assuming you mean for Combat, the sheet will automatically tell you when to shift from high rupture to low rupture to ruptureless.
This is wrong as both myself and Aldriana have pointed out. It's really that simple and I'm going to stop any further comments about this topic.

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Old 10/08/09, 11:59 AM   #1476
tetracycloide
Don Flamenco
 
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Human Warlock
 
Quel'dorei
Originally Posted by Aarcani View Post
Expertise doesn't have some additional value beyond providing DPS
This is not entirely correct. Expertise and hit are unique among DPS stats in that they both increase average DPS and decrease variance in DPS. So it's not accurate to say that expertise has no additional value beyond providing [average] DPS. Reductions in variance offer tangable benifits such that there can be cases where small losses in average DPS are well worth it. This is a fact not well revealed by sims or spreadsheets, however, since they tend to focus solely on maximizing the average value.

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Old 10/08/09, 2:11 PM   #1477
Mavanas
Great Tiger
 
Night Elf Rogue
 
Lightning's Blade
This is a good point except it only applies to a spreadsheet based on average values. In the simsheet by contrast, variance plays a big role. To take your example with hit and expertise, low levels of hit increase variance in energy income and can lead to energy draught situations or on the other hand bursts of energy which can lead to rotation disruption or changes substantial enough to say they are not well captured with a spreadsheet based on average values. Similarly, unlucky dodges of envenom can lead to cycle disruptions for mutilate spec, just like in a real fight, and it's all captured in the simsheet.

Averaging in a simulation is done after observing all those trials, some of which may have suffered from cycle disruptions due to variance, and some of which may have had a lucky string of crits. Variance has a much more pronounced negative effect on DPS in a simsheet, just like in real combat.

To give you another example, when I was modeling HAT before, an obvious parameter was the average combo points per second you receive from group. However I also discovered that to a lesser extent, it mattered which class was in the same group with you. Some classes provided a more stable income of combo points (think low variance due to high frequency of attacks) compared to others (big delays between attacks, spikes in combo point income). Holding average combo point income constant, those classes that gave you a smoother income of combo points were more beneficial for your dps, and simsheet is the best way for capturing that second order effect.

To be certain, average-based spreadsheets are also capable of modeling these second-order effects, however they typically do not probably because these effects are deemed insignificant and are also harder to model. So basically the bang for the buck is not there. In the simsheet, I do not have to add any additional modeling to capture second or third order effects, it's in the nature of the method to capture all of them by simulating the RNG rolls the same way they are done by the game itself.

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Old 10/08/09, 2:46 PM   #1478
Lightshadow
Piston Honda
 
Human Paladin
 
Stormrage
I think tetracycloide's critique runs quite a bit deeper than that Mavanas: you're still thinking about the effect of variance on average DPS rather than the effect of a variance in DPS on the raid outcome. As an extreme example, a setup that 90% of the time produces 9k dps and 10% of the time produces 1k dps (avg dps = 8.2k) in a burn phase just isn't as good as a setup that always produces 8k dps if you want to consistently 1shot bosses like twins or jaraxxus. Obviously none of the setups we're talking about here are nearly as extreme, and it probably matters more in 10s than 25s, but it's something we don't often seem to think about in our pursuit of average DPS.

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Old 10/08/09, 4:59 PM   #1479
mattipanduro
Glass Joe
 
Undead Rogue
 
Xavius (EU)
Originally Posted by hihu View Post
There's a scroll bar at the bottom of the sheet, being in 1280*960 res forces me to scroll right to change glyphs and spec.
If you don't pay attention after doing it you will think "all colours are gone, and all of my stuff is gone" while you are actually looking at the "Optimal" column and not the "Current" column. You only have to scroll back to the left :o
Happened to me a couple times before i figured it out.
After I banged my head repeadely against the table I can confirm this.

I opened one of my old "bugged" copies, scrolled all the way to the left and voila. Damn my laptops low resolution.

Thanks Hihu and I apologize for clogging up the forum with my stupid mistake.

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Old 10/08/09, 5:08 PM   #1480
Mavanas
Great Tiger
 
Night Elf Rogue
 
Lightning's Blade
Originally Posted by Lightshadow View Post
I think tetracycloide's critique runs quite a bit deeper than that Mavanas: you're still thinking about the effect of variance on average DPS rather than the effect of a variance in DPS on the raid outcome. As an extreme example, a setup that 90% of the time produces 9k dps and 10% of the time produces 1k dps (avg dps = 8.2k) in a burn phase just isn't as good as a setup that always produces 8k dps if you want to consistently 1shot bosses like twins or jaraxxus. Obviously none of the setups we're talking about here are nearly as extreme, and it probably matters more in 10s than 25s, but it's something we don't often seem to think about in our pursuit of average DPS.
If he meant it the way you read into it, then it's a different kind of analysis. And to be honest a raid with wide variance in dps (of which rogue's individual variance is a small portion) will get their first kill faster, but at the same time might not have the consistency to be able to repeat the result. So variance in that sense is a double-edged sword.

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Old 10/08/09, 5:42 PM   #1481
Shaker
AUGH CHAMPION TIME
 
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Human Rogue
 
Elune
Originally Posted by Mavanas View Post
If he meant it the way you read into it, then it's a different kind of analysis. And to be honest a raid with wide variance in dps (of which rogue's individual variance is a small portion) will get their first kill faster, but at the same time might not have the consistency to be able to repeat the result. So variance in that sense is a double-edged sword.
He's talking about variance on a smaller granularity though, and admittedly this is pretty nitpicky, but the point was that hit and expertise reduce your infight variance, which could be significant - if a Mutilate Rogue got a dodged Envenom and dropped SND in the middle of a Jaraxxus Portal, it could (theoretically) be the difference between 1 spawn and 2. This gives them some non-measurable amount of "non-dps" utility.

Consistency. It's only a virtue if you're not a screwup.

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Old 10/08/09, 5:56 PM   #1482
Rahdik
Piston Honda
 
Draenei Shaman
 
Earthen Ring
We already know though if you are Mutilate and getting dodged Envenoms that cause SnD to drop, that you need to get more Expertise. You aren't in the mindset "I need more Expertise because I want to lower my variance" it's "I need more Expertise because I don't have a stable rotation."

I think the variance in DPS for Combat rogues is so little that not until you start reaching BiS gear for T9 that Expertise is a good alternative to more Agility, as Aldriana pointed out earlier in the thread.

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Old 10/08/09, 8:21 PM   #1483
Leasie
Glass Joe
 
Undead Rogue
 
Jubei'Thos
Originally Posted by Fulrem View Post
There was a run down a week or two ago on movement & running double WP viability. I'll have to look back for the post but double WP was definately viable.

Edit: Found the WP post
Weren't there also discussions about Double WP not actually maintaining the Savage Combat Debuff?
It was posted just before the most recent Mut beta Spreadsheet and I think it got drowned out (understandably) by questions regarding that.

Originally Posted by Plaga View Post
I was convinced that it was only a display bug, but after reading your post I did the test too: removed my trinkets and used unenchanted weapons, so no procs will mess with the results:
no poisons: 848-849 dmg
dp: 882-883 dmg
wp: 848-883 (with an average of 872 in 10 hits)

~3 hits out of the total weren't affected by the buff, wp was present for the whole duration of the test.

Here you can see recount data for the 3 tests(the order in the image is: No poisons, wp, dp).
If duel WP doesn't maintain savage combat without another class in the raid able to do so, I don't see how it can be viable. Any other ideas on this? I haven't gotten around to testing it myself

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Old 10/09/09, 4:52 AM   #1484
sp00n
Bald Bull
 
Night Elf Rogue
 
Wrathbringer (EU)
The Savage Combat debuff dropping is just a graphical issue.

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Old 10/09/09, 7:38 AM   #1485
Tesen
Glass Joe
 
Human Rogue
 
Zenedar (EU)
I have a question regarding trinkets in the combat 1.3 (beta4) spreadsheet. Are the effects (click or proc) averaged over time for all of them? From what I can see they are, but i haven't dug deep into the calculations. I'm thinking about the additional value of a click-effect used with cds like BF, AR and KS. Right now the spreadsheet is telling me DMC-greatness is 14 dps better than Mark of supremacy, but I'm thinking Mark of supremacy might come out ahead in-game if used with those cds.

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