If I were a human “Best in Bags” program telling someone how to gear manually with Emerald Dreamcatcher I’d tell them the following:
- Can player’s gear get to the 30-33% Haste breakpoint? (So they can do 2 solar wraths in between starsurges without losing ED buff)
- If not, can they get to the lower 19.4% breakpoint? (so you can do an Empowered Lunar Strikes with Starlord talent in between starsurges without losing ED buff)
- If not, don’t even choose Emerald Dreamcatcher as a legendary.
- The crit/mastery/int resulting should still work but obviously if you have well over 33% or 19.4% haste then let AMR keep optimizing
I’m not sure if these AMR scripts are available to public but I did look through the Simulationcraft source and it definitely considers trying to fit spells in the ED buff. It refers to that as “actions.ed” and runs down a priority list considering spell times and other buffs to see which best dps spells it can fit and still keep dots up.
I notice over 3:30 min period most of the 99% Boomkins use a pretty small variety of spells with ED so the best geared most talented players seem to be repeating the best spell choices over and over.
Obviously bloodlust, berserk racial, and especially gear like Whispers in the Dark trinket will temporarily boost casting time incredibly high.
Which is why Gebuz’s chart has a recipe for what to cast in the 80% haste range
And we have weakaurus like Ana’s adaptation of someone elses that tells you which spells you should be able to cast during your starsurge window.
As your haste or cast speed goes higher that aura changes to show combinations of more powerful spells to cast.
So far probably these details are well known to all of you in this thread. But I wanted to be complete as I can, having mostly just theoretical experience at this point.
For reference, Gebuz’s chart https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c6-_akHl_Cja-uwg20Gt8R0f12pcw4_qtVcT7LyZW4A/preview#heading=h.mzpmfymmin6d
My Gear/Sims
If I pick the highest haste gear I have and swap all gems and enchants to haste I can manage to get 32-33% haste while dropping down only a couple ilevel from my AoE set.
Here’s the export I got on Zoopagoo of Silver-Hand for that hand selected set
I can get 668k parse on Krosus using my machine learning gear strategy
Parse: http://www.askmrrobot.com/wow/simulator/report/62eed583d92047a39bc46ae3a4b54861
Export from my manually chosen set:
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$49;US;Silver Hand;Zoopagoo;The Ironsong Tribe;9;2;110;2:800,8:796;4;.s4;9;2333133;125,1,3,3,2,4,2,1195;1,1,1,3,3,1,3,1;137339b1497b1813b3411,142515b1477b3467,140078;.q4;128306s16b725t128x137339m1497m1813m3411y5176n1477n3467z-2437c111;8709s5b1086b1644t181;1312s10b-1958b1839b180t371;3s1b-2024b1844b180t195;3s7b-3473b1444b2029b12t372;3s3b-2026b1835b179t373;767s11b-1959b251b1529b236t374x-9830c1e5428;97s8b-3532b1466b299b1530t212;1695s12b-1859b1859b178t280e-1;3s2b-2012b1835b107t377e463;12s15b-1942b1835b177t289e-454;9s6b-2037b336b1702t290;563s14b-2043t379;2767s13b339b1644t324;848s9b-1908b134b127b1528b237t380x-28c1$g\137339\137339\@g\142515\142515\@g\140078\140078\@g\130248\130248\200 Intellect@g\130220\130220\150 Haste@e\5428\128542\191014\200 Haste\124442=4,124440=35@e\5427\128541\191013\200 CriticalStrike\124442=4,124440=35@e\5890\141909\228405\600 Mastery\124442=15,124441=12@e\5436\128550\191022\200 Intellect\124442=8,124440=20,124124=2
If I pull a log from a Balance Druid at ilevel 899 (3 less than me) using same legendaries they are doing 814k dps over a fight length similar to the one in AMR sim above. 76% uptime of the ED buff there.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/P18THGRrLgyJ79Vt#fight=9&type=damage-done&source=7
Player: World of Warcraft