

Each stack increases your DPS by 10% for a total of 200% with a 20-stack.

The buffed players can only go in every other Vision of Death to get the buff. Three people stand in those visions and then fight adds to get a 20-stack of the Undying Resolve Buff, which lasts 1 minute. The first Vision of Death phase shows up at about 1:10, the second at about 2:30 and the third at about 4:10. Kilrogg spawns three green circles on the ground to send you to the Vision of Death. The best way to do that: time up your buffs and kill the boss at a very specific time.įirst, let’s do a quick recap of this fight. Of course, so can a buff that gives you 200% (Undying Resolve) - but when every top ranked person has that buff, you need something else to gain the edge. This fight illustrates how lining up certain buffs and abilities can dramatically increase your DPS. It's not for stack rank discussion.The #1 way to rank on Kilrogg: timing. They're posting this data to get discussion about the simulations, in an attempt to improve them. I want the viewer angry enough to pore through our voluminous data and say: "Hah! You messed up cooldown X!" or "You moron! Your action list is all wrong! You need to use ability Y instead!" I welcome the bile, the (creative) cursing, the ranting and raving, because usually there is kernel of useful information that I can extract to improve our models. The purpose of the spec ranking chart is to provoke a reaction, preferably a really really angry reaction. This begs the question: Why oh why does SimC publish this data!!!? This general lack of understanding leads to violent discourse initiating frequent appeals to have the chart terminated with extreme prejudice. We have a tool that is misunderstood generating a chart that is misunderstood representing a task that is misunderstood. The histrionic emotion is generally rooted in the mistaken belief that SimC is either (usually) "garbage" or (sometimes) "gospel" despite numerous attempts to explain that the truth is somewhere in the middle.

The depth of angry emotion that the spec ranking bar chart generates is quite remarkable. It's not so you can complain or speculate about your place on the meters before the content is released. The only reason why the numbers are posted as such is to generate meaningful discussion. SimC isn't for DPS comparison amongst classes or specs.

Sure, they're using the same buttons but it's an entirely different tier of play. If you compare an extremely well-maintained and programmed APL to one that simply gets the job done, you're effectively comparing a mythic raider to one in LFR. It's going to lose a lot of credibility once you start comparing specs and classes against one another because one fact thousands of forum-goers omit every time they do it wrong: the actual DPS value is only as accurate as the APLs. It's also great for generating stat weights. It's for evaluating your character and changes you can make to that character. You're doing it wrong.Īuthors and spec maintainers have been telling you the same thing that Blizzard has been tell you. Posting SimC results as a stack-ranking to argue place of DPS.
