Temporary buffs that increase Critical Strike should now correctly increase Parry through Riposte for tanking specializations.
viperjason wrote:Be still my heart...they changed the procs on crit...Temporary buffs that increase Critical Strike should now correctly increase Parry through Riposte for tanking specializations.
theckhd wrote:Also I just found out Censure doesn't scale with haste anymore, so I'm fixing that in SimC as well.
Finkum wrote:theckhd wrote:Also I just found out Censure doesn't scale with haste anymore, so I'm fixing that in SimC as well.
Presumably this will reduce the stat value of haste even further - oh dear!
In addition, I went back and ran two talent sims with ES included. The first twists all 3 seals:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ssukln88afs539o/talents_es3.html?dl=0
As you can see, 3-seal twisting is mostly useless. Can't keep up with either HS or Sera in DPS or TMI. Don't really see the point.
The second one has actors twisting just IR (ES_SW, ES_HA, ES_DP) and two additional actors that just use a single seal (ES_HA_SoR and ES_HA_SoI). For fairness I've also added an actor that sits in SoR with Seraphim (Sera_HA_SoR) and Holy Shield (HS_HA_SoR).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ha6b4mlzv5fkv9/talents_es2.html?dl=0
IR twisting isn't really a whole lot better, though at least it isn't as significant a TMI loss. But again, there seems to be little point in using them. It might be a slight DPS increase over HS if you're only tanking half the time, but Sera would still be hands-down better.
ES_HA_SoI sits in SoI, and gives you roughly the same survivability as Sera, but at a huge DPS loss. Again, why bother.
ES_HA_SoR is barely ahead of Sera_HA in DPS, and costs a huge chunk of survivability. I don't really see that ever being a trade worth making, as if you're willing to give up that survivability you'd be willing to give up a little more and just sit in SoR with HS or Sera for even more damage.
As a final thought, let's assume we alternate between IR (tanking) and R (off-tanking), we can estimate the results as the average of ES_HA_SoR (23088 DPS, 110k TMI) and ES_HA (20904 DPS, 102k TMI). TMI would still be the smaller of the two (irrelevant while not tanking), so we'd get an actor doing around 21996 DPS on average with 102k TMI. This is still worse than HS_HA or Sera_HA (even with the usual caveat about HS's damage being an over-estimate).
TLDR: There doesn't seem to be any configuration in which Empowered Seals is worth using right now.
Quietmode wrote:Do you have the most up to date simulationcraft version? You have to redownload to get the updated coding for hotfixes/changes.
The most current is 6.0.3 - release 24. IT should say at the top "SimulationCraft 603-24" if you are up to date.
Also, what is the "Default gear" window and "Talent Configuration" window you are talking about? Are these just ".simc" files that you are referencing in a simulation? Because i dont see these in my simcraft program.
