Not selecting best in slot when optimizing

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Running BiB and it’s not selecting a much higher ilvl weapon (ilvl 561 instead of 528). looking at the individual slot, it’s ranked higher than both of the other weapons.

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Actually, i figured it out – it’s just the enchant bumping it down (secondary spec and that one has a different main spec enchant). But with the extreme ilvl difference, I’m surprised it would prefer having the “right” enchant.

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In this case you actually have a couple things going on causing it to give this result, one of which is the following order of events:

  1. It wants that 561 weapon as your main-hand for your primary havoc spec, which makes sense: highest ilvl weapon in main-hand for DPS specs is usually your best value.
  2. Then it wants to use one crit enchant, one depths enchant for havoc. It just happens to do crit mh, depths oh: neither are enchanted yet so the optimizer doesn’t care which enchant goes where.
  3. But your mostly-DPS vengeance spec wants depths/depths for enchants… it would probably work out better if you put depths on the 561 weapon and share that between the two specs… but the optimizer goes in order top-to-bottom… so it doesn’t “know” about your vengeance setup when it does your havoc setup.

The second thing causing that result is that off-hand weapon damage for vengeance just isn’t very important, so lower ilvl weapons don’t make as much of a difference.

The third thing which is making the enchants a bit more impactful for vengeance… is that for some reason a couple days ago just after early-access launched, Blizzard decided to increase the value of almost all direct-damage trinket and enchant effects by 47.56%. Not sure why the change or how they came up with that specific number, but I just do what the data says!

If you want, you could lock a Depths enchant on the 561 weapon when doing your Havoc spec, then Vengeance will use that weapon in the main-hand and one of your higher ilvl weapons in the off-hand – though it would only change your total score by ~0.6%.

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Got it – thanks for the detailed look!