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Textual configuration interface

This section is a part of the TCI reference.

Regular spells are not mentioned here, you just have to follow the standard names formatting rules.

Actions

Burn phase

Burn phase can be started by start_burn_phase and stopped by stop_burn_phase. These actions set and reset the burn_phase flag, which can then be used in conditions of other actions.

actions=start_burn_phase,if=!burn_phase&cooldown.evocation.remains<20
actions+=/stop_burn_phase,if=prev_gcd.1.evocation
actions+=/arcane_blast,if=burn_phase
...

Water Elemental

Water Elemental's Freeze can be controlled manually via the freeze action.

...
actions+=/freeze,if=ground_aoe.comet_storm.remains>0.6
...

Expressions

Burn phase

burn_phase expression evaluates to 1 if burn phase is currently active. burn_phase_duration gives the duration (in seconds) of the current burn phase. Outside of burn phase, it returns 0.

Incanter's Flow

incanters_flow_dir can be used to determine if Incanter's Flow is currently gaining or losing stacks.

Time                   | 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 ...
-----------------------+---------------------------------------
Incanter's Flow stacks | 1  2  3  4  5  5  4  3  2  1  1  2 ...
incanters_flow_dir     | 1  1  1  1  0 -1 -1 -1 -1  0  1  1 ...

incanters_flow_time_to.<stack number>.<stack type> evaluates to remaining time (in seconds) until the next occurence of the specified stack. When the buff is in the desired state, this expression evalutes to 0.

stack_number is a whole number between 1 and 5, stack_type can be up, down or any. up checks only stacks on the raising part of the cycle, down checks stacks on the falling part of the cycle and any checks both types.

Ground AoE

Ground AoE can be tracked by ground_aoe.X.Y.

X can be any of:

  • blizzard
  • comet_storm
  • flame_patch
  • frozen_orb
  • meteor_burn

Y can be any of:

  • remains

If the specified ground AoE is currently not active, this expression evaluates to 0.

For example:

...
actions+=/flurry,if=buff.brain_freeze.react&prev_gcd.1.frostbolt&ground_aoe.frozen_orb.remains=0
...

Firestarter

The expression firestarter.active can be used to check if Firestarter is active. Time until Firestarter becomes inactive is represented by firestarter.remains. See below.

actions=fireball,target_if=firestarter.active
# Cast Fireball on any target that will make it crit.

Brain Freeze

brain_freeze_active expression helps distinguish between normal and Brain Freeze empowered Flurry casts. This expression evaluates to 1 (true) if the last Flurry was cast with Brain Freeze, otherwise it evalutes to 0 (false).

Mage options

Firestarter

Firestarter's value hugely depends on a raid composition. In a single actor simulations, it is usually overvalued.

firestater_time can be used to combat this. It turns off the standard Firestarter behavior and gives Fireball and Pyroblast 100% crit chance for the specified time after combat starts.

Note that with this option, Firestarter won't have any effect on enemies that join the fight later (for example adds raid event).

mage=Mage
level=110
...
spec=fire

firestarter_time=20
# Firestarter is only active for the first 20 seconds

Greater Blessing of Wisdom

Arcane mages benefit from the extra mana gained from Greater Blessing of Wisdom. greater_blessing_of_wisdom_count can be used to simulate this exact scenario.

mage=Mage
level=110
...
spec=arcane

greater_blessing_of_wisdom_count=2
# Two paladins buffed us with GBoW

Shimmer Ice Lance

This combo can be enabled via allow_shimmer_lance. When set to true, Shimmer temporarily reduces Ice Lance's travel time (as if the player was 20 yd closer). Note that this doesn't actually model player movement.

If you want to try it out, you can make the following change to the default APL. Replace this Ice Lance line

actions+=/ice_lance,if=!buff.fingers_of_frost.react&prev_gcd.1.flurry

with the following three lines

actions+=/ice_lance,if=prev_gcd.1.flurry
actions+=/ice_lance,if=prev_off_gcd.shimmer&debuff.winters_chill.remains>travel_time
actions+=/shimmer,if=spell_haste<=0.666&prev_gcd.2.flurry&charges>=1&!buff.fingers_of_frost.react

If you don't want to use Shimmer back to back, you can enforce time between two Shimmers in this way.

# Do not allow two Shimmers within 5 sec of eachother.
actions+=/shimmer,line_cd=5,if=...

Freeze effects

Since all freeze effects available in simc break on damage and thus almost never last their full duration, we opted to use one shared duration for all of them. In Battle for Azeroth, all freeze effects are guaranteed to last at least 1 s, which is why simc uses 1 s as the default freeze duration.

frozen_duration=<time in seconds> overrides this default duration with a user specified value. When frozen_duration is set to 0 or lower, freeze effects are assumed to be permanent.

Crowd control

Some abilities have different effect depending on whether the target is susceptible to crowd control. For example, against targets that are immune to crowd control, Freeze will not apply the root effect.

Target is susceptible to crowd control in these situations:

  • Target's level is strictly smaller than player level + 3
  • Target is an add spawned by the adds raid event
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