Arcane Mage - Arcane Surge not setting mana to 0

[TylerR909]

Describe the bug

I'm digging through the Sample Sequence Table trying to pick out patterns and noticed that when Arcane Surge is cast, despite the tooltip opening with Expend all your current mana..., Mana in the resource column doesn't budge.

Time | List | # | Name | Target | Resources -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- 3:08.089 | spark_phase | p | nether_tempest | Fluffy_Pillow | 214298.2/354715: 60% mana 3:09.367 | spark_phase | q | arcane_surge | Fluffy_Pillow | 218790.5/354715: 62% mana 3:10.016 | spark_phase | v | arcane_barrage | Fluffy_Pillow | 222976.1/354715: 63% mana 3:10.310 | spark_phase | t | touch_of_the_magi | Fluffy_Pillow | 224872.2/354715: 63% mana

Expected behavior

Mana is 0%, or close to 0%, after casting Arcane Surge.

Additional information

simc-1010.01.1cebc5b-win64

• simc_gui.simc file or contents
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[vituscze]

The spell consumes mana correctly. Without seeing the exact sim you ran, I'm guessing that the cast didn't actually go through (was interrupted by movement, most likely) since you'd need insane amounts of haste to get Surge to 0.649s cast time.

[TylerR909]

I looked again at these sims and it looks like you're right. No matter what mana Surge is cast at, the Arcane Blast that follows it is reliably 15-16%. I had to look at the opener to determine that the Mana snapshot is taken before the cast. i.e. Time Warp costs 10k mana but still shows 100% on that row. Here are a few lines from the same run (new sim from the run above):

Here I'd expect to see near-zero mana after Surge or AB:

0:12.793 | spark_phase | p | nether_tempest | Fluffy_Pillow | 107248.4/355466: 30% mana -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- 0:13.553 | spark_phase | q | arcane_surge | Fluffy_Pillow | 108410.3/355466: 30% mana 0:14.818 | spark_phase | r | arcane_blast | Fluffy_Pillow | 53523.8/355466: 15% mana

Here, maybe 39% is snapshot right before it gets set to 0% and by the time AB casts it's back up to 16%?

2:20.793 | spark_phase | p | nether_tempest | Fluffy_Pillow | 134341.7/355466: 38% mana -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- 2:22.032 | spark_phase | q | arcane_surge | Fluffy_Pillow | 138599.4/355466: 39% mana 2:24.148 | spark_phase | r | arcane_blast | Fluffy_Pillow | 55186.9/355466: 16% mana

Could follow the same logic as above^:

3:56.640 | spark_phase | p | nether_tempest | Fluffy_Pillow | 5300.1/355466: 1% mana -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- 3:57.897 | spark_phase | q | arcane_surge | Fluffy_Pillow | 9674.1/355466: 3% mana 4:00.038 | spark_phase | r | arcane_blast | Fluffy_Pillow | 55187.1/355466: 16% mana

Same here:

5:27.629 | spark_phase | p | nether_tempest | Fluffy_Pillow | 13706.6/355466: 4% mana -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- 5:28.566 | spark_phase | q | arcane_surge | Fluffy_Pillow | 16012.4/355466: 5% mana 5:30.173 | spark_phase | u | arcane_blast | Fluffy_Pillow | 55084.8/355466: 15% mana