[Item] Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest

[InDebt]

[!IMPORTANT] With the approach of the next phase, the desire to accuratley simulate and gauge Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest will be higher and higher. This Staff is the newest legendary introduced with the Firelands raid and will be in high demand for every caster. Therefore, it's very desirebly to provide a high quality implementation for this item, as it has many class specific interactions. This issue shall be used to gather all information we can, as it's unlikely the staff will be available for testing on the upcoming PTR. Please contribute any old resources and references you have. Take the results of the simulations with the staff with bit of scepticism until we have larger testing and reference datasets.

[!NOTE] This issue will be constantly updated with the latest references and feedback gathered

General behaviour

• When equiped the staff provides the ability to duplicate the casters damaging spells.
• Direct damaging spells will be replicated as a direct copy of that same spell
• Periodic damaging ticks will be replicated causing the exact same amount of damage as arcane damage through Wrath of Tarecgosa ^1
  • As it's another spell, players will not benefit from talents here. A good exaple would be Shadow Orbs which can trigger from Shadow Word: Pain ticks. These will not be triggered by a tick replication from the staff.
• The replicated spells from direct casts behave the same way a cast would that player's cast themselves. i.E. consuming procs and benefitting from the same modifiers. ^1
• Spells are replicated on damage. Causing spells with projectiles to be replicated on impact ^4
• Even though it is stated that the Staff has an internal cooldown, it seems to be around the 10ms visible through wowhead. ^13
  • Procs occuring immediatly after another can be seen here ^12 56s

Class specifics

• There seem to be different proc chances for different classes as indicated by blizzard.

  Furthermore, the proc chance is adjusted favorably for pet specs that derive a significant portion of their DPS from pets. ^2

Proc Chances per Spec

Class	Spec	Proc Chance	Reference
Druid	Balance	7.2%	^3
Mage	Arcane	9.16%	simc (4.3)
Mage	Fire	9.16%	simc (4.3)
Mage	Frost	9.16%	simc (4.3)
Priest	Discipline	?	-
Priest	Shadow	~8.5%	^4
Shaman	Elemental	?	-
Warlock	Affliction	~8.5%	^7
Warlock	Demonology	~12%	^7
Warlock	Destruction	~11%	^4

Class specific interactions

Shaman

• Fulmination Will be replecated based on the initial casts damage calculations for Lightning Shield. ^5 (56 seconds)
• Flame Shock seems to only replicate the DoT ticks ^5
• [x] Can overload procs be replicated
  • Yes. Overload procs can be replicated ^11
• [ ] Can lightning shield procs be replicated

Mages

• Flame Strike replicates the ticks as DoT ticks ^1
  • It would be reasonable to assume that this spell behaves similar to Flame Shock then and initials are not repliacted. Need confirmation though
• Bast Wave will be replicated as another Blast Wave ^1
• If talented into Improved Flame Strike a replicated Baste Wave will cast another Flame Strike ^1. As the Flame Strike triggered by Blast Wave stacks with a normal cast Flame Strike its likely that 3 Flame Strikes can be up like this at the same time.
• Procs on Arcane Blast will also apply a debuf stack ^1
• Flame Orb and Frost Orb are not replicated ^1
• Pyro Cast and Dot Ticks are replicated ^15 2m05

Shadow

• Mind Sear replicates each tick as a cast ^6 6m8s
• MS and MB are replicated. In OG cata the replication spell was severly delayed after the initial hit. This allowed for orbs being procced again and the proc can consume those orbs ^6 1m21s
• We will have to see how large the delay of the procced spell will be on current version of wow
• SW:D will replicate and deal the damage feedback twice as well ^8 03m30s
• [ ] Need to clarify if IMP:DP can be replicated (Seems currently very unlikely. Scanned 5 complete boss fight videos without a single replication)

Warlock

• Hellfire is treated as a DoT similar to Flame Strike ^9
• [ ] How does Conflagrate interact with DTR? Is the initial damage used when calculating the immolate damage? As the proc might trigger when Immolate is not active on the target.

Balance

• [ ] Is MF initial replicatable or only dot ticks

Open topics

In general the following information would be nice to gather additionaly:

• [ ] Are there any spells that should not be replicated but would be expected to be based the outlined behaviour
• [ ] Should spells and procs from enchants, trinket or other items be replicated
• [ ] Should procs be replicated (i.E. can an elemental shaman's overloaded spell be replicated)

Implementation

• [ ] Sufficient research and resources gathered
• [x] Task to implement a baseline staff implementation, see #989
• [x] Make disclaimer available in the UI
• [ ] Finish implementation

Please provide any information you have, that is based on reliable evidence like videos, old combat log snippets, class forums or old elitist jerks threats. Private server information or memory can not be used here.

References

[1337LutZ]

@InDebt Found some old posts for Mage: Staff + Ignite:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130210021024/http://elitistjerks.com/f75/t110187-cataclysm_mage_simulators_formulators/p29/#post2087545

Staff + Combust/LB:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120208065305/http://elitistjerks.com/f75/t110187-cataclysm_mage_simulators_formulators/p16/#post2010872

[stn-ms]

Some more info on Balance:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20111230201811/http://www.owlkin.org/moonkin-guides/balance-druids-dragonwrath/

[1337LutZ]

Weak evidence, but good to test; VPLC trinket being replicated

https://web.archive.org/web/20120809013459/http://elitistjerks.com/f80/t125554-dragonwrath_tarecgosas_rest_warlock_specific_analysis/p3/

[InDebt]

Weak evidence, but good to test; VPLC trinket being replicated

https://web.archive.org/web/20120809013459/http://elitistjerks.com/f80/t125554-dragonwrath_tarecgosas_rest_warlock_specific_analysis/p3/

Yeah - the video reference I posted for Balance PTR Proc rate testing also mentioned it. For now I have implmented it that way but I have not found any video evidence yet.