MW monk gearing BIB vs SIM

I know that SIM healing is very hard to do/execute, but im having an issue with Azerite gear form EP. The sims show that the azerite gear is higher HPS, but the BIB feature recommends 405 gear in my bags. What gives?

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Hi !

I wanted to looked into to make sure their where to “hidden” parameter and i got the same result as he does.

https://www.askmrrobot.com/wow/simulator/report/e23cfd169d404141a6f6599bcc07ba59
https://www.askmrrobot.com/wow/simulator/report/4865b466bb5c48eabcf3c8c6c9f33d38

We will have to wait for Swol to look into this =D

Sienss,

I tried some sims on your higher level gear, and I wasn’t seeing any noticeable increase in DPS. The only way I could see an increase was like what @Sienss did, which is taking an Arcane Heart on your higher ilvl chest item, but we don’t have that trait ranking very highly. I can’t remember if we suppress that one a little because it is problematic in-game.

Healing gear is just weird… I think in your case it would be worth locking in the higher item level pieces just to have more stamina. I don’t think you’ll feel a difference in how much healing you would do.

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While i realize nothing is perfect, this is off-putting. Especially as i pay for the service. Please try to get clarification on this for the new tier.

Gearing for healing is a lot different than gearing for DPS.

There is a lot of “fuzz” in what gear is “optimal” or “viable”. What I always tell everyone is: I have developed a method that will find a set of gear for you that works very well. If you use the gear suggested by BiB, you will be able to successfully heal content in WoW at the highest levels of play. Is it the only set of gear that will work? No. There are many, many sets of gear that will work for healers.

Personal preference comes into play for healers a lot more than for DPS, where raw numbers matter the most. How a set of gear feels to you as a healer could be the deciding factor for picking it. There is no way for me to quantify feelings. I rank gear by doing a detailed simulation of a fight which incorporates all the class mechanics, other healers in the raid, realistic damage patterns, etc. I find sets of gear that reduce ally deaths the most, and then I order those sets of gear by how much HPS they do.

In your case, the 405 items you have are within margin of error of the 435 items when it comes to keeping allies alive and raw HPS potential. That is why I said you could go either way. You don’t need the extra stamina to stay alive, but it might be helpful depending on your team’s level of play.

I understand that it might not be totally satisfying to hear that there isn’t one absolute answer… but on the other hand… isn’t that also kind of good in a video game? Like I said, though, I can say for sure that the solution we recommend is solid. Tweaking it per your preferences or asking for some custom tweaks from experts on the forum here is also totally reasonable and I think shouldn’t be off-putting!