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Forum: Public Discussion 10/12/09, 8:23 PM
Replies: 429
Views: 359,927
Posted By Shalas
If someone wins a bid for more money than they...

If someone wins a bid for more money than they have, just kick them from the group and sell the item to the second highest bidder. If they don't, then go out of your way to keep inviting them as...
Forum: User Interface and AddOns 07/19/08, 7:19 PM
Replies: 176
Views: 106,875
Posted By Shalas
The output avi from the first pass isn't used at...

The output avi from the first pass isn't used at any point. If you're using xvid_encraw.exe you can save a small amount of time by not generating it at all, and with the VFW interface it's safe to...
Forum: Class Mechanics 07/15/08, 12:28 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 9,321
Posted By Shalas
Unless you like having heals automatically...

Unless you like having heals automatically cancelled midcast, no.

Actually, I think the change means they just made CQMC possible again.
Forum: Class Mechanics 06/17/08, 10:52 AM
Replies: 484
Views: 145,308
Posted By Shalas
Your swingtimers are set to zero the instant you...

Your swingtimers are set to zero the instant you start casting, and don't progress while a cast is in progress. If you managed to cast LvB immediatly after a swing you'd only lose 2 seconds of white...
Forum: Rogues 06/12/08, 9:22 PM
Replies: 151
Views: 114,692
Posted By Shalas
By design, absolutely nothing short of generating...

By design, absolutely nothing short of generating lua files while WoW is not running is possible. There's only one way to communicate with external programs left that doesn't violate the ToS, and...
Forum: Priests 06/12/08, 8:08 PM
Replies: 1,401
Views: 809,466
Posted By Shalas
Your first problem is that you're casting rank 1...

Your first problem is that you're casting rank 1 Mind Flay and Vampiric Touch in that parse. Fixing that would increase your dps by about 100. Your second, much bigger problem is that you spend a...
Forum: Public Discussion 06/12/08, 11:20 AM
Replies: 2,725
Views: 705,474
Posted By Shalas
There are both. Head/legs is a tokenized drop,...

There are both. Head/legs is a tokenized drop, and shoulders is a rep reward for exalted with Zandalar.
Forum: Class Mechanics 06/11/08, 11:34 AM
Replies: 484
Views: 145,308
Posted By Shalas
Unless I missed something obvious while playing...

Unless I missed something obvious while playing my shaman, there's no way to cast an imbue on the same weapon twice in a row short of deequipping the other one. If you cast FT+WF, you'd end up with...
Forum: Class Mechanics 05/23/08, 4:52 PM
Replies: 125
Views: 36,536
Posted By Shalas
Suppose lightning breath was a .0001 second cast...

Suppose lightning breath was a .0001 second cast and did one damage. 1.2 damage would be rounded down to 1 and the ele shaman would never manage to use a SS change, so SS would do absolutely...
Forum: Public Discussion 05/20/08, 9:02 PM
Replies: 8,188
Views: 1,903,475
Posted By Shalas
Are you really trying to suggest that they...

Are you really trying to suggest that they intentionally created an alpha build with terrible grammar, then "accidently" made it publicly downloadable?
Forum: Shamans 05/08/08, 3:19 PM
Replies: 1,591
Views: 1,087,913
Posted By Shalas
Generally you don't spend very much of a fight...

Generally you don't spend very much of a fight out of combat.
Forum: Public Discussion 05/08/08, 1:06 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 26,779
Posted By Shalas
The short answer is that you need to be the ones...

The short answer is that you need to be the ones selling HoDs, not buying them. The guilds that have 100k banks have that much money because spending money to reduce farming time mostly isn't an...
Forum: Shamans 05/08/08, 12:55 PM
Replies: 1,591
Views: 1,087,913
Posted By Shalas
Mods haven't been able to auto-select ranks for...

Mods haven't been able to auto-select ranks for about 18 months now.
Forum: Public Discussion 05/06/08, 11:46 AM
Replies: 2,725
Views: 705,474
Posted By Shalas
At the speed required for Rawr's approach, you'd...

At the speed required for Rawr's approach, you'd be able to simulate about one second of combat with Yo!'s sim. Getting accurate results out of Rawr requires that the model never produce (a > b && b...
Forum: Public Discussion 05/06/08, 9:35 AM
Replies: 305
Views: 95,068
Posted By Shalas
One mob per second is probably a massive...

One mob per second is probably a massive underestimate -- I doubt there's ever under 50 people actively leveling on any non-dead servers, which would be enough for a mob a second while ignoring the...
Forum: Public Discussion 05/05/08, 5:27 PM
Replies: 305
Views: 95,068
Posted By Shalas
Err, right, 32 characters, not bits. However,...

Err, right, 32 characters, not bits. However, there still aren't 2^128 possible GUIDs. With the GUID format used for COM, 11 bits are constant, and 4+ bytes are often used to store data about what...
Forum: Public Discussion 05/05/08, 3:49 PM
Replies: 305
Views: 95,068
Posted By Shalas
Despite the name, this is not true. While the...

Despite the name, this is not true. While the GUID generation algorithm does a very good job of avoiding collisions, there are still only 4294967296 possible GUIDs, nearly all of which can never be...
Forum: Paladins 05/02/08, 10:43 AM
Replies: 1,700
Views: 693,348
Posted By Shalas
You have it backwards. The boosted JoW proc rate...

You have it backwards. The boosted JoW proc rate is from refreshing seals other than JoW while JoW is active, which is only possible if a paladin other than the ret paladin judged wisdom.
Forum: Public Discussion 04/29/08, 9:59 AM
Replies: 318
Views: 220,653
Posted By Shalas
The Tech Support forum would be the right one. ...

The Tech Support forum would be the right one. It's fairly heavily moderated and actually read by the relevant people.
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/23/08, 4:10 PM
Replies: 85
Views: 20,925
Posted By Shalas
No, that was a hotfix during 2.2.

No, that was a hotfix during 2.2.
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/22/08, 4:11 PM
Replies: 125
Views: 36,536
Posted By Shalas
I really don't think actually reading a thread is...

I really don't think actually reading a thread is too much to ask when it's two pages. Who makes best use of the SS debuff is a completely meaningless question with an incredibly obvious answer.
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/21/08, 11:31 PM
Replies: 125
Views: 36,536
Posted By Shalas
At most, with one enh shaman there are two SS...

At most, with one enh shaman there are two SS charges per 10 seconds to use. The elemental shaman casts a spell at least once every 2 seconds (between haste gear and CL, it should be significantly...
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/21/08, 4:11 PM
Replies: 484
Views: 145,308
Posted By Shalas
The value of stats varies with what your other...

The value of stats varies with what your other stats are. Suppose you have two shaman, where Shaman A has 1000 AP, Shaman B has 2000 AP, and they are otherwise identical. Adding one AP to each will...
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/18/08, 5:16 PM
Replies: 192
Views: 65,492
Posted By Shalas
Average WF lag isn't quite meaningless, but it's...

Average WF lag isn't quite meaningless, but it's pretty close. If you have no haste effects other than flurry, 2.6/2.6 and 2.8/2.8 will do the exact same white + non-SS WF DPS with the same MH : OH...
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/16/08, 9:32 AM
Replies: 8,574
Views: 2,702,293
Posted By Shalas
Weapon speed for enhancement shaman does not work...

Weapon speed for enhancement shaman does not work that way, and any calculation involving that is pretty much worthless. That significantly overestimates the impact of changing speed for some...
Forum: Priests 04/10/08, 4:50 PM
Replies: 1,401
Views: 809,466
Posted By Shalas
Imp Fade is one of the worst talents in the game...

Imp Fade is one of the worst talents in the game and anyone who takes it does not understand how fade works.
Forum: Shamans 04/10/08, 1:35 PM
Replies: 1,591
Views: 1,087,913
Posted By Shalas
Did you really have to write over a thousand...

Did you really have to write over a thousand words to say "You should always use trinkets in the most effective way, because that's the most effective way to use trinkets"? Defining "smart use" as...
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/10/08, 9:39 AM
Replies: 8,574
Views: 2,702,293
Posted By Shalas
Regardless of class or spec, if someone tells you...

Regardless of class or spec, if someone tells you that you need X of some stat to be effective, they're almost certainly wrong. Run the simulator, get stat weights, see if any of the items you could...
Forum: Paladins 04/09/08, 11:33 AM
Replies: 1,700
Views: 693,348
Posted By Shalas
The "hits" column doesn't include crits, which...

The "hits" column doesn't include crits, which makes it mostly useless and very misleading. If you expand the Holy Light row, you'll see that Fenira had 98 hits and 73 crits, for a total of 171 HLs...
Forum: Paladins 04/07/08, 4:51 PM
Replies: 1,700
Views: 693,348
Posted By Shalas
There's three effects a crit can have: 1) Save...

There's three effects a crit can have:
1) Save mana, either directly via Illumination or indirectly via reducing the amount of healing you have to do in the future
2) Influence your future casts
3)...
Forum: Paladins 04/07/08, 2:49 PM
Replies: 1,700
Views: 693,348
Posted By Shalas
One interesting project would be to parse a large...

One interesting project would be to parse a large number of combat logs to see how often a heal crit prevented a tank death. It'd be fairly easy to write -- you just need to track the tank's health...
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/07/08, 11:26 AM
Replies: 8,574
Views: 2,702,293
Posted By Shalas
Sebudai said exactly what the bug is in his post...

Sebudai said exactly what the bug is in his post -- the sim is modeling haste potions as a passive 50 haste, which is very different from 400 haste one eighth of the time. It's still not reporting a...
Forum: Paladins 04/07/08, 11:05 AM
Replies: 1,700
Views: 693,348
Posted By Shalas
Unless you're going from 99% to 100% crit, adding...

Unless you're going from 99% to 100% crit, adding crit does nothing for your worst-case burst, which is what matters for avoiding tank death. In general, you shouldn't be trying to reduce the chance...
Forum: Paladins 04/04/08, 1:53 PM
Replies: 7,310
Views: 2,129,855
Posted By Shalas
This is a fairly common fallacy which is...

This is a fairly common fallacy which is completely false for two reasons:
1) When mongoose wears off, your next swing isn't magically delayed to make it occur when it would have if mongoose

had...
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/02/08, 10:20 PM
Replies: 8,574
Views: 2,702,293
Posted By Shalas
Streaks are not "non-random". Not seeing streaks...

Streaks are not "non-random". Not seeing streaks in small sample sizes incredibly frequently would be non-random.

Barring data corruption PRNGs are technically deterministic, but I don't think it's...
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/02/08, 5:26 PM
Replies: 8,574
Views: 2,702,293
Posted By Shalas
10k hours with stat weights enabled takes about 5...

10k hours with stat weights enabled takes about 5 minutes on a 2 Ghz Pentium M for me.
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/02/08, 4:41 PM
Replies: 8,574
Views: 2,702,293
Posted By Shalas
PRNGs do not work how you think they do. ...

PRNGs do not work how you think they do. Statistics does not work how think it does.


The obvious explaination to me is that they consider the parry reduction much more useful than we do, and even...
Forum: Public Discussion 04/02/08, 11:36 AM
Replies: 305
Views: 95,068
Posted By Shalas
It's not that hard to think of a scenario where...

It's not that hard to think of a scenario where loot generation would be from a "clean" RNG. One is the following situation:
1) Each process creates its own RNG
2) Each instance is a seperate...
Forum: Public Discussion 04/02/08, 10:35 AM
Replies: 305
Views: 95,068
Posted By Shalas
There's no reason to assume that there's only one...

There's no reason to assume that there's only one PRNG involved. Nothing about WoW from what we can observe suggests that they've set up a centralized PRNG for each server cluster which each machine...
Forum: Public Discussion 04/01/08, 8:09 AM
Replies: 269
Views: 54,735
Posted By Shalas
I was talking only about in terms of currently...

I was talking only about in terms of currently existing game mechanics. Obviously you can add entirely new game mechanics that we are not good at.
Forum: Public Discussion 03/31/08, 9:32 PM
Replies: 587
Views: 206,238
Posted By Shalas
Mana Tombs isn't a level 70 instance, which is...

Mana Tombs isn't a level 70 instance, which is why it stops giving rep at honored. Just like nearly every faction in the game, there is no level 70 instance for the Consortium.
Forum: Public Discussion 03/31/08, 9:29 PM
Replies: 269
Views: 54,735
Posted By Shalas
After MC/Onyxia, Nefarion and 4HM are the only...

After MC/Onyxia, Nefarion and 4HM are the only two bosses that have taken the top guilds any meaningful amount of time to learn. Everything pre-Nef in BWL died the week the patch came out (although...
Forum: Public Discussion 03/31/08, 10:16 AM
Replies: 269
Views: 54,735
Posted By Shalas
No, that was C'Thun. Nihilum's dominance of BT...

No, that was C'Thun. Nihilum's dominance of BT was simply due to that they were one of the few guilds actually prepared for T6. Pre-2.1 raiding was a complete mess which caused problems for even...
Forum: User Interface and AddOns 03/28/08, 1:15 PM
Replies: 2,359
Views: 540,269
Posted By Shalas
Assuming the description is accurate, you're only...

Assuming the description is accurate, you're only considered solo if you aren't in a party and don't have a pet.
Forum: Public Discussion 03/27/08, 10:24 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 19,328
Posted By Shalas
Non-troll response: There are three factors of...

Non-troll response:

There are three factors of "skill" involved in being a good warm body in WoW:
1) Gear selection.
2) Not standing in fire
3) Pushing the right buttons

1 and 2 are not class...
Forum: Public Discussion 03/27/08, 8:38 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 19,328
Posted By Shalas
WoW is a very difficult game. Sometimes you even...

WoW is a very difficult game. Sometimes you even have to push multiple buttons at once or push buttons at the right time.
Forum: Class Mechanics 03/27/08, 3:01 PM
Replies: 8,574
Views: 2,702,293
Posted By Shalas
Even without twisting, an Enh Shaman should be...

Even without twisting, an Enh Shaman should be spending very close to zero time out of the 5SR. With 6 second shocks, SS and shock cooldowns align such that you get one regen tick about once a...
Forum: Paladins 03/25/08, 7:21 PM
Replies: 1,700
Views: 693,348
Posted By Shalas
Spell haste applies after the talent cast time...

Spell haste applies after the talent cast time reduction for all spells. For reference, Fireball's cast time from Vontre's spreadsheet:
=(((Base cast time)-(Points in Improved Fireball)*0.1)/(Haste...
Forum: Priests 03/25/08, 5:30 PM
Replies: 1,401
Views: 809,466
Posted By Shalas
With sufficient haste to avoid missing the tick...

With sufficient haste to avoid missing the tick of regen, SW:P -> VT is higher DPS than VT -> SW:P. When both need to be refreshed at the same time (such as at the beginning of a fight), regardless...
Forum: Public Discussion 03/25/08, 1:39 PM
Replies: 305
Views: 95,068
Posted By Shalas
You misunderstood why they were better. It's not...

You misunderstood why they were better. It's not that they worked differently, they were just hilariously overbudget. At level 58, I got a wand on my priest that had +31 healing on it. The best...
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