Warlock: Simple Questions/Simple Answers - Page 108

notimeremains · 09/29/09, 9:16 AM

I would like to know the stat weight of my gear.
I made a profile at wowhead.com, and loaded my character's gear in to it. When I had a profile number, I put this info in the simcraft, I got the HTML file.

My question is where can I find or calculate my stat weight?

Santa · 09/29/09, 9:19 AM

Just add "calculate_scale_factors=1" to the command line

mjball · 09/29/09, 2:18 PM

Much easier than what you did:

./simcraft armory=eu,darkspear,normaj (other args here) calculate_scale_factors=1

psuman99 · 09/30/09, 3:46 AM

I searched the SimulationCraft For Warlocks thread for the following information so I was hoping someone here might be able to answer.

Assuming BiS gear for T9 warlocks, what is the rough dps value of the 2 tier bonus and the 4 tier bonus? I'm trying to get a sense for its value to help me make gearing choices in the future.

Aphex- · 09/30/09, 1:41 PM

Question on Demonology rotation:

Once a boss gets into Decimation range, does the rotation become solely the 1:1 rotation or should Immo/Corruption/CoA? be incorporated as well?

Little Ball of Hate · 09/30/09, 5:19 PM

Hi all, 3-week-old Warlock here.

1) Just to confirm I'm not crazy, Chaos Bolt does not get a damage buff from immolate like Incinerate does, correct? The tooltip doesn't say it does, so I assume not, but tooltips have lied before.

2) If the answer is "no," as I suspect, then I want to consider a scenario I run in to three or four times a fight: I'm bloodlusted or using a haste pot. Immolate has 1 second left accord to my timer. I consider casting it, but it's at least possible that my new immolate will land before the last tick goes off on my old one. Should I say screw it, and cast immo anyway, or (if the CD is up) should I cast chaos bolt and have a 1-2 second window where immo isn't on the target?

3) Do most Warlocks here carry around a separate set of hit gear for 10M Heroics? I ask because, unlike my 25m, my 10M Uld/TotC groups frequently go in without a Spriest/Moonkin, and thus I've looked like a dope when my CoDooms missed. If there is another solution to this problem, I'm all ears.

Thanks in advance!

nuibank · 09/30/09, 5:43 PM

With the talent Fire and Brimstone - Spell - World of Warcraft Chaos Bolt does get a bonus from immolate being on the target. If you are in the situation where you think recasting immolate might clip the current one, try life tapping or casting corruption.

I always carry around a set of hit gear and hit food for times times when group composition doesn't include a 3% buff (or if the 3% comes with a player I don't trust to survive). I also carry around a set of non hit gear for heroics and soloing.

notimeremains · 10/01/09, 5:18 AM

Originally Posted by Santa

Just add "calculate_scale_factors=1" to the command line

Originally Posted by mjball

Much easier than what you did:

./simcraft armory=eu,darkspear,normaj (other args here) calculate_scale_factors=1

Thank you for your replies.

I've run SimCraft with the scale factors in them, but I have a problem with them.
These are my stat values :
HitRating=2.20,
SpellDamage=1.57,
Spirit=1.05,
HasteRating=1.04,
CritRating=0.73,
Intellect=0.32

As you can see HitRating is very high, 2.2.
But I am already over the hitcap. I'm currently over it 15.32% = 402 HR. I always have a Draenei in raid (+1%) and Boomkin/ShadowPriest (+3%) in raid.
I know I wear too much HR but this will change when I can replace some trinkets and gear.

Since I'm over Hit cap already; why is the value of HR in SimCraft so high? Is there an setting I could set so SimCraft wont value it so high?

mwaf · 10/01/09, 6:01 AM

That's the value of Hit raiting prior to reaching the hit cap. After reaching the cap its value is 0. The relevant part of your result is the SP >> Sprit = Haste > Crit >> Int.

Ronzily · 10/01/09, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by nuibank

I always carry around a set of hit gear and hit food for times times when group composition doesn't include a 3% buff (or if the 3% comes with a player I don't trust to survive). I also carry around a set of non hit gear for heroics and soloing.

This is the way to go. Two sets should be plenty - one for when you need the hit, and one for when you don't, including heroics (should probably only need to swap out a piece or two, depending on your gear). Nui makes a great point about the players who bring the buffs, too. If I don't know the moonkin or shadow priest too well, or, worse, know that they're likely to die, I'll keep my hit gear on. There's nothing worse than a CoD or Immolate missing because someone dies totally outside of your control.

Bringer1 · 10/01/09, 4:47 PM

Originally Posted by nuibank
"I always carry around a set of hit gear and hit food for times times when group composition doesn't include a 3% buff (or if the 3% comes with a player I don't trust to survive). I also carry around a set of non hit gear for heroics and soloing."

I do the same thing, but as an alternative to hit food I dual spec 0/13/58 and 3/13/55 and switch into 3/13/55 when I don’t have an spriest or boomkin in the group.

Mordekhuul · 10/02/09, 6:42 PM

I've been toying with Meta/Ruin lately, as we don't run a demon lock for DP at the moment.

I'm one of our top 4 DPS as destruction right now, but raid DPS is what matters, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

I have to admit to being a bit underwhelmed by the spell power boost of Demonic Knowledge, though. Those of you that have gone the Meta/Ruin path, what self-buffed spellpower were you looking at when you found it a good time to switch?

With just fel armor, I'm at 2821 normally. With a felguard out, I'm at 3048, for a gain of 227 only.

Playing with the spec, I keep wondering (almost) whether I forgot to train something, or whether I was wrong about not having to go to a pet trainer and buy those annoying books anymore while leveling :P

Omgzwtf · 10/04/09, 3:28 PM

Swapped my offspec to meta/ruin from at 3.2.2 launch. I used Supplicium's math on DP's weight over wrath totem to gauge my effectiveness (link)

Right off the bat I can see that your trinkets, while great for burst dps, are not the best for providing DP coverage to the raid due to their uptime concern.

Regardless of trinkets, with your current gear, after raid buffs u should be well above the 3200 benchmark, which according to Supplicium is the mark at which wrath totems should be swapped to searing. Additionally there is always your lifetap glyph which would grant you a nice chunk of SP. As far as calculating DP effectiveness goes, given lifetap glyph uptime should be 100%, you might as well be taking this buff into account as well.

Personally I feel that the ultimate determinant for whether to provide DP is whether your caster dps can utilize it properly. IE if your raid runs with strong caster dps then by all means. However as you said you will top5, and if the other casters are rolling in 10-15, then DP's value falls significantly

In the current 3.2 raid scene its pretty easy for a Meta/Ruin lock to achieve ~4300sp with raid buffs, which stands as a significant improvement over wrath totem.

lhsansshade · 10/05/09, 4:57 PM

When a boss is sub 35% is it worth running to melee range to use immolation aura, or should I keep my distance and not mess up my soul fire weaving?

Feihcretsam · 10/05/09, 5:53 PM

Does anyone know the DPS value of the 2xt8 bonus? I can't find it anywhere and my own calculations fail a bit.