Referring to the secondary stat pie chart specifically. Is this something I need to utilize? Or does AMR magically know all my stat priorities. I play frost DK main with blood offspec and crit is supposed to be far and away the best secondary but I’m often presented with gear suggestions with secondary stats that don’t align with this. Thanks.
Not at all. It’s just there if you want to specifically tailor your stats to be more towards one stat or another. Otherwise though, it will automatically calculate what it deems to be best.
We have our own mathematical model of the game that will pick stats. The secondary stat pie chart is a way for you to change the results if you prefer something different than what we calculated.
Sometimes you will see us suggest different stats than you see suggested on other websites/discord. There are a number of reasons for this, but here are a couple:
1.) “General” advice for stats that you see in a guide on a site like wowhead or icy veins assumes you are using a particular talent build and playing the game in a very specific way (usually whatever simc is doing). Our website is different because we calculate the preferred stats on demand, based on the talents you pick. Talent choices can significantly change which stats are the theoretically preferred stats. Also, we flex around the gear you have available with the BiB solution - sometimes there is a solution that is good when you don’t have full BiS gear, and that solution uses different stats than a BiS set of gear might use.
2.) We aren’t using simulation, we are using a deterministic mathematical model. This allows us to analyze orders of magnitude more sets of potential gear. But, different models of the game will get different results. Which model is “best” or “right” is more or less unknown. It is not feasible to do an empirical test to prove that, say, simc gives better results to use in-game vs our mathematical models. Most of the time they match, especially for common builds, but sometimes they diverge.
I’d be interested to see your particular case. I think that my frost dk model likes haste for certain builds, but I think that could potentially make sense.
Thank you for the replies.