Stat Weights and You: Round 2

Stat Weights and You: Round 2

Recently we’ve been getting many questions, in Discord, about stat weights and the results that people are seeing from SimulationCraft. This is something that we largely predicted, looking at how stat weights work in general and how stat scaling works in Legion....

Shedding (Nether)Light on the Nether Crucible

In Patch 7.3, Blizzard is introducing a new tool to the, seemingly ever increasing, complexity of things to do that is; Legion. It is a relatively confusing new tool that has required several Q&A responses from Blizzard to try and clarify things, and its still not...
Stat Weights and You: Round 2

Windwalker Scaling

The past two weeks or so, following the AMA, I decided to devote some time to figuring out the reasoning for why Windwalkers have historically not gained as much damage relative to other specs as a tier continues. If you missed the happenings of the AMA, you can...
Understanding Windwalker Priorities

Understanding Windwalker Priorities

Windwalkers, and many specs operate on a priority system, rather than a strict rotation. However, setting up a priority isn’t often a simple matter. There are many kind of priorities depending on what you’re prioritizing.  Many specs follow these...

Lament of the Windwalker: AOE vs ST

So, as Talby touched on in his article, Windwalkers have very strong AOE capability, if given the opportunity to set some stuff up. However, we give up a lot of our single target damage in the process. Today, I’ll be exploring the current problem Windwalker...

Lament of the Windwalker: The Incident

Continuing my series on the hardships that Windwalker’s have experienced… Anyone who was playing Windwalker this past year remembers the elation that was getting a response from Blizzard about the Storm, Earth, and Fire situation. Well a few years ago,...

Lament of the Windwalkers: Mastery

So to anyone who has played Windwalker for as long as I have, you know that it hasn’t always been easy being teal. There have been many changes, and many times that we’ve felt like the forgotten class, or even that Blizzard somehow had it out for...

Windwalker Artifact Challenge Guide

I’ll be covering some strategy for the Windwalker Artifact Challenge appearance. The artifact appearance is a reward from completing Feltotem’s Fall, a solo scenario that requires the Mage Tower building to be active on the Broken Shore. Videos Notxes...
PTR: 7.1.5 Notes (Nov 29)

PTR: 7.1.5 Notes (Nov 29)

Since there are always questions about this, I’ll do a quick post about the changes. Obviously, this may or may not be the extent of the changes Cenedril, Reflector of Hatred The amount of damage that Touch of Karma can redirect is increased by 150% of your...

Simulations: What Are They?

In the pre-Legion days, SimulationCraft, stat weights, theorycrafting, and the like, were reserved for a select few individuals who knew how to use the tools. The information gleaned from these tools was the disseminated to the public, taken as gospel, and rarely...