Theck's MATLAB thread - Cataclysm/4.x

[theckhd]

The pvp glove bonus is additive with Crusade and WotL, so it's not going to be a very large effect (~2.2% increase to CS damage). There are more efficient ways to trade rating for stamina, so from a survivability standpoint it's not an attractive choice. Maybe it'd be useful for a 2pT13(ret)+2pT12 parse-hunting set.

The Vengeance->AP conversion brings Stamina up into fifth place, barely trailing AP. Note that this is true only at 100% vengeance, and Stamina's value as a DPS stat scales down linearly at lower vengeance levels.

Doesn't the value of Stamina drop quickly to zero as soon as you're not capping vengeance?

Your question was already answered in the section you quoted (bolding mine).

[danpaladin]

Long-time reader, first-time poster.

4.3 Patch Notes: Seal of Truth, when Judged, now benefits from a multiplier of 20% per stack of Censure, up from 10%.

Three quick questions: How much impact does this actually have on the damage done by Judging? Would this change the priority order in any way? Does this change the amount of threat gained by speccing into SotP?

Edit: Wrote Seal of Truth instead of SotP.

[matthewseidl]

Long-time reader, first-time poster.

4.3 Patch Notes: Seal of Truth, when Judged, now benefits from a multiplier of 20% per stack of Censure, up from 10%.

Three quick questions: How much impact does this actually have on the damage done by Judging? Would this change the priority order in any way? Does this change the amount of threat gained by speccing into Seal of Truth?

It increases the damage of Judgement by 33%. It increases the multiplier on the damage from censure stacks from 1.5 to 2.0.

I'm guessing it would change the priority to AV+ > J > AV, but I'd wait for the rest of the changes to appear. With the T13p2, we might want to be J > AV anyway for more shields.

Seals of the Pure? AFAIK, SotP doesn't effect Judgement damage.

[Jackinthegreen]

Has any math been done on the PvP glove effect (+5% CS damage)? The current gloves are so well-itemized we want to use them, but if we ended up with a poorly itemized pair of T13 gloves (say, hit/parry), we'd be comparing ~30 stam, ~20 str, ~45 armor, and the 5% CS damage to 200 rating, which I would think might compare pretty favorably.

If Wowhead's PTR data is correct and not subject to change, the Prot gloves are Dodge/Hit. See http://ptr.wowhead.com/item=77004 or the full set at http://ptr.wowhead.com/itemset=1065 .

The Ret set has three pieces that aren't totally crappy for us, those being the Mastery/Crit legs, Mastery/Haste chest, and Expertise/Hit helm. If we wanted to make full use of our increased DPS from 2p Ret and PVP gloves, I'd personally go with Ret's legs and helm, and Prot's shoulders and chest.

2p Prot puts us in an interesting situation. In effect, Inquisition becomes something of a survival CD thanks to Judgement being Holy. Add in the increased HoPo from Ret's 2p and we might actually be in a situation where it's better mitigation and damage to use Inq regularly. It's not much, but it's worth noting.

[daiceman]

With the recent buff to judgement damage and our t13 2pc I would be very curious to see how Arbiter of the Light's threat stats have changed. I'm pretty sure I will end up specing this as we really aren't that pressed for threat, but it would be academic to see just how much threat is lost by specing into it.

[Durability]

The Vengeance->AP conversion brings Stamina up into fifth place, barely trailing AP. Note that this is true only at 100% vengeance, and Stamina's value as a DPS stat scales down linearly at lower vengeance levels.

Doesn't the value of Stamina drop quickly to zero as soon as you're not capping vengeance?

Your question was already answered in the section you quoted (bolding mine).

No, it wasn't. An example of what I mean: suppose you have 1000 stamina (neglecting base health for the moment), and take three boss fights: one with exactly enough incoming damage to keep you capped at 1000 AP, one with twice that, and one with half. Now add 1 stamina: in the first and third cases, the stam increase nets you nothing whatsoever, and in the second, it has full value. Of course this is an ideal case and in a real fight near the borderline stamina would have some value thanks to varying incoming damage, but on a fight where you are at, say, 50% vengeance, the value of stam is not 50% of what it was at 100% vengeance, it's 0 or very close to it. Unless that's what you meant by the bolded part, but that's certainly not how I read it.

[lythac]

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V from   V (Cap   V (Cap
dmg      @100)    @105)

140      100      105   DPS increase
130      100      105   DPS increase
120      100      105   DPS increase
110      100      105   DPS increase
100      100      100
090      090      090
080      080      080
070      070      070

Do you mean this? Increasing your stamina and your Vengeance cap only has an effect if your Vengeance is being limited by being at cap. Being below cap adding extra sta doesn't give you any more vengeance, it only increases your cap which isn't a gain to DPS.

[Meloree]

No, it wasn't. An example of what I mean: suppose you have 1000 stamina (neglecting base health for the moment), and take three boss fights: one with exactly enough incoming damage to keep you capped at 1000 AP, one with twice that, and one with half. Now add 1 stamina: in the first and third cases, the stam increase nets you nothing whatsoever, and in the second, it has full value. Of course this is an ideal case and in a real fight near the borderline stamina would have some value thanks to varying incoming damage, but on a fight where you are at, say, 50% vengeance, the value of stam is not 50% of what it was at 100% vengeance, it's 0 or very close to it. Unless that's what you meant by the bolded part, but that's certainly not how I read it.

In 4.3 it won't matter. Vengeance will basically always be capped.

In the current environment it's rare to find a fight that will keep you hovering at some value of Vengeance below 100% without ever capping it. At those moments that you cap, the additional stamina has some value. The lower your average vengeance, the less value the extra stamina will be because the less often you'll be getting to cap, in general. But in most content you *will* be capping at least once in a while, so the marginal value isn't zero. If you aren't ever capping - then the content is trivial, wear more DPS gear.

So a linear decrease is an approximation, but a fairly reasonable one, I think. It's certainly not a step-function from 100% value to 0%.

[Jeremoot]

If you aren't ever capping - then the content is trivial, wear more DPS gear.

I think this sums it up, really. If you're not capping vengeance in a fight, more stamina isn't going to do anything in the way of survival and there are better alternatives for damage.

[theckhd]

Running some numbers as I update the code for 4.3. This is from my local copy, which has the 20% AP buff on Might as well as the new Judgement scaling (2x damage at 5 stacks of Censure). It's still using a T12H gear set though:

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                 SoT, 2%/10                  SoI, 2%/10
                Damage/Healing              Damage/Healing
Ability    Raw    Dmg    Net  Glyph        Raw    Dmg  Glyph
SotR     25127  24479  25952  26926      25127  22889  25178
WoG      33536  41419  41419  45561      33536  41419  47632
CS       16676  15464  16621  16106      16676  14460  15060
HotR      2229   2067   3224   2226       2229   1933   2081
AS       18897  18728  20113  24347      18897  18728  24347
Cons     11319  11169  11169  13402      11319  11169  13402
Exor     15120  14919  16294  17903      15120  14919  17903
HoW      18559  23250  24635  23250      18559  23250  23250
HW        4797   5405   5405   5405       4797   5405   5405
Jud      23054  22848  24233  23991      12972  12856  13499
HaNova    9265   7686   7686   8277       9265   7196   7750
SoI       5844   3799      0   3799       5844   3799   3799
SoJ        612    604      0    604        612    604    604
SoR       1347   1420      0   1420       1347   1420   1420
SoT       1397   1473      0   1473       1397   1473   1473
Melee     5715   4368   5525   4368       5715   4082   4082
Cens     27895  29410  29410  29410      27895  29410  29410

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                                            DPS            SHPS            E    I    mps
  Q#  Priority                              V=100%  V=30%  V=100%  V=30%   %    %     
   1  SotR>CS>AS>J                          20036   12665     0       0   0.0   0.0   108
   6  SotR>CS>AS+>J>AS                      20053   12669     0       0   0.0   0.0   154
   9  SotR>CS>AS>J>HW                       20281   12910     0       0   0.0   0.0  -104
  10  SotR>CS>AS>J>Cons>HW                  20523   13039     0       0   0.0   0.0  -342
  20  SDSotR>ISotR>Inq>CS>AS>J              20209   12768     0       0   0.0  40.5   102
  21  SDSotR>ISotR>Inq>CS>AS+>J>AS          20221   12770     0       0   0.0  40.3   147
  27  SDSotR>ISotR>Inq>CS>AS>J>Cons>HW      20743   13180     0       0   0.0  40.5  -353
  28  SDSotR>ISotR>Inq>CS>AS+>J>AS>Cons>HW  20755   13179     0       0   0.0  40.3  -306
  30  WoG>CS>AS>J                           15810   10041  1971    1357   0.0   0.0   127
  31  WoG>SotR>CS>AS>J                      18190   11516  1629    1122   0.0   0.0   100
  35  WoG>SotR>CS>AS>J>Cons>HW              18683   11896  1629    1122   0.0   0.0  -355
  42  SotR>CS>AS>HoW>J                      21642   13779     0       0   0.0   0.0  -327
  48  ISotR>SDSotR>Inq>CS>AS>HoW>J>Cons>HW  22044   14041     0       0   0.0  43.0  -375
  49  WoG>SotR>CS>AS>HoW>J>Cons>HW          19920   12710  1629    1122   0.0   0.0  -376

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   seal         SoI     SoT     SoT     SoT     SoT
   rotation     W39     939     939     W39     939
   hit/exp    2%/10   2%/10   8%/26   2%/10   2%/10
   Veng        100%    100%    100%    100%    30%
   CS         204.3   215.9   251.1   218.5   141.1
   HotR       238.7   252.1   309.0   255.0   154.0
   J           50.1    86.9    90.6    87.8    53.1
   SoT          0.0   991.8   506.5   916.6   633.6
   SotR       281.9   490.4   574.7   311.4   305.4
   WoG          0.0     0.0     0.0     0.0     0.0
   SoI          0.0     0.0     0.0     0.0     0.0
   Cons        18.0    19.5    23.7    19.5    17.3
   AS         451.9   567.8   636.8   572.9   368.7

So the increased Judgement damage brings it up ahead of unglyphed AS, but slightly trailing glyphed AS. The Judgement glyph is still pretty weak.

I haven't implemented T13 set bonuses yet. Prot will be easy, because I can calculate the shield amounts in post-processing. Ret will be trickier, because we'll have to edit the FSM code to accept Holy Power gains on Judgement.

[Jeremoot]

I think it would be handy if the labadin output was rewritten to order the rotations from highest DPS to lowest at 100% Vengeance.

[theckhd]

That also has the side effect of making it much, much harder to compare tweaks to the rotation (i.e. "is AS+>J>AS better than AS>J"). The list is currently ordered to make those comparisons easy to make, since that's where most of the insight comes from.

[Jeremoot]

Okay, that makes more sense, and the summary at the end of your post is really all that's needed to point out the optimal rotation.

I assume these changes aren't enough to make the Glyph of Judgement appealing are they?

[theckhd]

Nope, that last code block is the glyph simulation. Judgement glyph is still weak.

[Jackinthegreen]

The thing is though, once we get 2pT13 the Judgement glyph will give us a bit of mitigation. Sure it'll be weak, but every other prime glyph is just DPS/TPS, not survivability. Adding in the Ret 2p would make it more attractive and give us some extra HoPo, which definitely raises the possibility of weaving in Inq. With Inq up Judgement will hit harder and thus grant a larger shield.

Admittedly though, perhaps using the Ret 2p might set us back more. The two Ret pieces we'd use are the legs and helm, which would exempt using the Prot pieces that are dodge/mastery and dodge/parry respectively. The sheer CTC on those most would most likely outweigh the little gain we get from the 2p bonus.

If the quick napkin math I did on EJ is any indication, Prot's 2p probably won't do much. The Judgement glyph was worth less than 50 mastery rating in terms of mitigation, which means it's only worth a similar amount of avoidance too. Avoiding a 50k hit for example means we just negated 166 boss DPS during a 5 minute fight. If we assume Judgement does 20k average (which is probably high) and used every 8 seconds (definitely not happening) then the 2p is a 5k shield every 8 seconds, or 625 DPS.

Gah, heck of a time for my handheld calculator to die. Suffice to say, now that I look at it I'm pretty sure the sheer CTC of the prot pieces outweigh any gains we might get from using 2p Ret.