Simulationcraft-101

Dungeon Slice and Dungeon Route are two different fight styles, even tho both have the same goal. Simulating a full dungeon. Dungeon Slice was made years ago with the goal to generalize whole dungeons into a shorter fight style to make gearing decisions for dungeons easier. If you followed the link and read through the article written by Seriallos you may already have noticed the issue with it. Dungeons nowadays are much different, with a lot of bigger pulls that are not properly mirrored by such a fight style. Dungeon Slice can have some issues with a few trinkets that require a higher target count, but even for those it’s still “fine”. What you use to simulate dungeons is up to you. Dungeon Slice is also a good tool to make gearing decisions for raid fights that involve add spawns due to the way it values single target and low target cleave.

Dungeon Slice and Dungeon Route are two different fight styles, even tho both have the same goal. Simulating a full dungeon. If you want a much more detailed sim that represents a dungeon of your choice, with the route of your choice, you have to use Dungeon Route. You probably already noticed that this is not a default fight style on raidbots. That’s because of the nature of Dungeon Route itself. The goal here is to make it as flexible as possible. The steps are fairly simple. Get Method Dungeon Tools (MDT) and this Weakaura. In MDT you can build your own routes of the dungeons with the key level you decide. The weakaura makes it possible to extract those routes as a fight style for your sim. In the top right corner of your MDT window, you will find two things. A setting to decide the % of the health you will deal to the enemies (default is 27%, based on your group you can adjust that) and right next to it, you have a button that is called “SimC Export”. When you press this button, a pop-up opens with the current route as a bunch of lines that are raid events. Those raid events will be your trash packs and bosses in the sim. Now just copy the content of the popup like you did with your /simc popup. When you now open raidbots and insert your normal /simc export or decide to use the “Load from Armory” option, you can scroll down to the end of the page. There you can find a part that is named “Custom APL and SimC Options”. Extend this and enable the expert mode with the checkbox. You will have 4 input boxes now that are named “Header”, “Pre-Actor”, “Post-Actor” and “Footer”. Paste your route into the Footer. This will overwrite all settings about the fight style that you have in the Simulation Options above. Dungeon Route requires a lot more effort but will be the most accurate simulation of a dungeon at this point. What you use to simulate dungeons is up to you.

There are 3 different fighstyles that are selectable on raidbots right now that include movement. Hectic Add Cleave, Light Movement and Heavy Movement. While the idea to simulate fights with a lot of movement sounds great, we still have a lot of issues with those sims. The APL has to support those. For now that’s not the case (at least for Monks) which is why we recommend to never use any of those. If you still use those the results you get can be very different since movement in combats is always a thing a player can plan for while the APL does not do that right now. It’s the same issue you would have when you would stop to play proactively and start to play reactively. A good example is the usage of cooldowns. The APL has no conditions for incoming movement, so it can happen that it uses all your damage cooldowns just to run around like a chicken for the next ten seconds.

Target Dummy is a fight style that automatically disables all raid buffs, consumables and the usage of Touch of Karma and Touch of Death. This fight style can be used to get a rough idea about the dps your character is capable of on a target dummy. Due to the difference between human and APL and the difference in iterations, you might not match your simulated dps, but you may come close to it.

copy=”Food: (328 Crit) Fiery Fish Sticks”
food=fiery_fish_sticks
copy=”Food: (328 Vers) Ginger Glazed Fillet”
food=gingerglazed_fillet
copy=”Food: (328 Mastery) Salty Dog”
food=salty_dog
copy=”Food: (328 Haste) Zesty Nibblers”
food=zesty_nibblers

copy=”Food: (235 Mastery/Haste) Chippy Tea”
food=chippy_tea
copy=”Food: (235 Haste/Crit) Deepfin Patty”
food=deepfin_patty
copy=”Food: (235 Crit/Vers) Fish and Chips”
food=fish_and_chips
copy=”Food: (235 Mastery/Vers) Marinated Tenderloins”
food=marinated_tenderloins
copy=”Food: (235 Mastery/Crit) Salt Baked Seafood”
food=salt_baked_seafood
copy=”Food: (235 Haste/Vers) Sweet and Spicy Soup”
food=sweet_and_spicy_soup

copy=”Flask: Flask of Alchemical Chaos”
flask=flask_of_alchemical_chaos_3
copy=”Flask: Flask of Tempered Swiftness”
flask=flask_of_tempered_swiftness_3
copy=”Flask: Flask of Tempered Mastery”
flask=flask_of_tempered_mastery_3
copy=”Flask: Flask of Tempered Versatility”
flask=flask_of_tempered_versatility_3
copy=”Flask: Flask of Tempered Aggression”
flask=flask_of_tempered_aggression_3

copy=”Ironclaw Whetstone DW”
temporary_enchant=main_hand:ironclaw_whetstone_3/off_hand:ironclaw_whetstone_3
copy=”Oils of the Deep Toxins DW”
temporary_enchant=main_hand:oil_of_deep_toxins_3/off_hand:oil_of_deep_toxins_3
copy=”Algari Mana Oil DW”
temporary_enchant=main_hand:algari_mana_oil_3/off_hand:algari_mana_oil_3
copy=”Ironclaw Whetstone/Oil of Deep Toxins DW”
temporary_enchant=main_hand:ironclaw_whetstone_3/off_hand:oil_of_deep_toxins_3
copy=”Ironclaw Whetstone/Algari Mana Oil DW”
temporary_enchant=main_hand:ironclaw_whetstone_3/off_hand:algari_mana_oil_3
copy=”Oil of the Deep Toxins/Algari Mana Oil DW”
temporary_enchant=main_hand:oil_of_deep_toxins_3/off_hand:algari_mana_oil_3

copy=”Ironclaw Whetstone”
temporary_enchant=main_hand:ironclaw_whetstone_3
copy=”Oils of the Deep Toxins”
temporary_enchant=main_hand:oil_of_deep_toxins_3
copy=”Algari Mana Oil”
temporary_enchant=main_hand:algari_mana_oil_3

profileset.”Pandaren”+=”race=pandaren”
profileset.”Blood Elf”+=”race=blood_elf”
profileset.”Orc”+=”race=orc”
profileset.”Tauren”+=”race=tauren”
profileset.”Troll”+=”race=troll”
profileset.”Undead”+=”race=undead”
profileset.”Goblin”+=”race=goblin”
profileset.”Highmountain Tauren”+=”race=highmountain_tauren”
profileset.”Nightborne”+=”race=nightborne” profileset.”Mag’har Orc”+=”race=maghar_orc”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Akunda)”+=”race=zandalari_troll”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Akunda)”+=”zandalari_loa=akunda”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Bwonsamdi)”+=”race=zandalari_troll”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Bwonsamdi)”+=”zandalari_loa=bwonsamdi”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Gonk)”+=”race=zandalari_troll”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Gonk)”+=”zandalari_loa=gonk”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Kimbul)”+=”race=zandalari_troll”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Kimbul)”+=”zandalari_loa=kimbul”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Kragwa)”+=”race=zandalari_troll”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Kragwa)”+=”zandalari_loa=kragwa”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Pa’ku)”+=”race=zandalari_troll”
profileset.”Zandalari Troll (Pa’ku)”+=”zandalari_loa=paku”
profileset.”Vulpera”+=”race=vulpera”

profileset.”Pandaren”+=”race=pandaren”
profileset.”Draenei”+=”race=draenei”
profileset.”Dwarf”+=”race=dwarf”
profileset.”Gnome”+=”race=gnome”
profileset.”Human”+=”race=human”
profileset.”Night Elf (Night)”+=”race=night_elf”
profileset.”Night Elf (Night)”+=”timeofday=night”
profileset.”Night Elf (Day)”+=”race=night_elf”
profileset.”Night Elf (Day)”+=”timeofday=day”
profileset.”Worgen”+=”race=worgen”
profileset.”Void Elf”+=”race=void_elf”
profileset.”Lightforged Draenei”+=”race=lightforged_draenei”
profileset.”Dark Iron Dwarf”+=”race=dark_iron_dwarf”
profileset.”Kul Tiran”+=”race=kul_tiran”
profileset.”Mechagnome”+=”race=mechagnome”