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Post by
Magician22773
So I have tried several times, unsuccesfully, to figure out SimCraft. I have read, re-read, and re-re....you get the picture. Asa's guide is very well written, I am not knocking that...I accept that its "not you, its me"
So my question is, what would the next best thing be? I used to rely a lot on MaxDPS, and I havent even looked to see if its still maintained or not. All I am looking for a decent way to sort out all the new gear drops to see quickly if its an upgrade or not. I hate to roll on something thinking its going to be used, only to find later that it was a poor choice.
Any other suggestions, or should I just bite the bullet and spend the time to get Sim figured out?
Post by
asakawa
Well, my guide doesn't really touch on actually using SimCraft and my theorycrafting thread uses SimCraft but never really gets into what I'm doing to acquire the info.
Acabar's SimCraft guide
is a little out of date now but still provides a good primer on how to get going.
Essentially:
download it
unzip it
run SimulationCraft.exe
go to
go to
tick int, SP, hit, mastery, haste, crit
go to
paste your armoury link into the bar at the bottom and hit enter
click (bottom right)
click
enjoy lovely information!
The section that looks a bit like the table I've pasted in below is the important bit of the results. It tells you how much the stats are worth (tailored specifically for your character) and even gives you links to use to rank the gear.
Obviously the Wowhead link is the best one there ^_^
Int
SP
Hit
Crit
Haste
Mastery
Scale Factors
3.3018
2.4626
1.7510
1.2486
1.2681
0.8513
Normalized
1.0000
0.7458
0.5303
0.3781
0.3841
0.2578
Scale Deltas
300
300
-300
300
300
300
Error
0.1541
0.1509
0.1601
0.1541
0.1552
0.1524
Gear Ranking
wowhead
lootrank
Optimizers
wowreforge
(also, don't use MaxDPS, it's not very good these days)
Post by
DraconisAerius
Simcraft sounds lovely... If only it didn't return this message every time I try and use it (this goes for preactically any version btw)...
Player Yazaa with 'reforge=' 'mastery_hit' at slot head does not have source stat on item.
Unable to initialize item 'power_generator_hood' on player 'Yazaa'
Simulation has been canceled during player setup! (thread=0)
Post by
asakawa
I think Lock13 had a similar issue a while back. Could you post your actionlist perhaps because simming your character works fine for me in the two versions I have on my PC currently (410-10 and 420-1).
Post by
DraconisAerius
Actionlist? All I did was download the latest version and press import and sim and it came up with that. Didn't change anything.
Post by
asakawa
Oh the error was thrown on import?
Does the same problem occur if you import your character into CharDev first then into SimCraft?
Post by
DraconisAerius
Editied: Never mind. Stupid thing works now. I redownoaded it, played with the options a bit and hey presto it works.
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