by the way, this is one of the reasons i always say âdonât follow bis lists and sims blindlyâ.
people choose to ignore this advice because they donât like thinking for themselves, and then pulls a surprised pikachu when it turns out the sims were wrong.
this has been going on throughout all of SOD, and people still say âbut the sims sayâŚâ to use as an argument during loot disputes.
i flat out dismiss it every time because i donât trust sims anymore.
thereâs a higher likelihood that they are wrong, than right.
so when the sims say i.e t1 set (yes the actual t1 pieces) is âbetter dpsâ over t2, i just shake my head because obviously thatâs not going to be the case.
there is SOMETHING in those sims that are flat out unaccounted for, or just done incorrectly.
my own class discord have a monthly, if not weekly âoh sorry guys, whoops, turns out sims didnât take A or B into account so this was actually wrong all alongâ-post.
i havenât indulged in sims for many phases now, but i remember in phase 3, when enhancement shaman was peaking, that people put a green mace as the BIS for the class and said âiTs WhaT SiMs The BEsTâ
first thing i did was say âthatâs wrong, this axe from zulâfarrak is better, and here is whyâ
turns out i was right about that in the end.
but it was an uphill battle trying to convince people because they trust some flawed AI simulation program more than objective analyzation from a person who played the class for 20 years.
in the end, i provided video evidence after doing about an hour of personal testing on target dummies in shimmering flats, and that seems to have done the trick, but then the goal post was moved to âyea ok, but how often are you gonna get a lucky streak of procs? lets consult the simsâ like ok bro, use the terribad mace then, lmao.
the primary reason for it, was that the axe from zf can proc a wound for some flat damage, this wound proc can crit (if memory serves) and it counts as a melee attack, which means it can proc WF and WF can proc it in return AND THE SIMS DID NOT TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT.
this is of course besides the fact that it happens to be an axe which is basically always better than a mace, if you are an orc.
0.10 slower attack speed does not beat that.
its a no-brainer.
but ThE SiMS SaiD remember?
sims and bis list are guidelines, nothing more.
their existence does not mean you can just turn your brain off and follow whatever they say blindly, because at the end of the day, these are both products made by other people, and people have a tendency to be wrong about things, and this is often reflected in simming programs that arenât serving their purpose as intended.
you can run a simulation vs. another simulation a million times, heck make it 5 million times, and they will give incorrect results every one of those millions of simulations if it is not perfected to a T and take everything and anything into account when basing its results on its testing.