— there’s a new option in top gear for enhancements — “replace existing gems/enchants”: When this option is not selected (the default), items will not have existing. Raidbots is a valuable website allowing players to run character simulations. A fight length of about 3/4ths of your cooldown.

Understanding the Context

 — top gear now has much better support for testing out combinations of gems and enchants on your gear. Click all the boxes at your own peril reports now show gems/enchants. This is a good guide around. Why do gem/enchant sims take so long?

Key Insights

Raidbots frequently asked questions. Find the best gear combinations for your character from your bags using top gear on raidbots.  — installing the addon from an addon manager. Search for “simulationcraft” in your addon manager and install the simulationcraft addon. There are several addon managers.

Final Thoughts

Finds the best gear, gems, talents, and enchants. Users should selectively choose items to simulate for optimal results. Compares current gear to.  — using default settings (top gear with smart sim), a sidegrade in top gear is defined as a result within 0. 1% of the top result (see the bottom of the post for the details).  — learn how to use op gear on raidbots to find out what gear, legendaries, enchants, gems, covenant, soulbinds, conduits and talents you should use.

 — learn how to interpret the sidegrade results in top gear, a feature that groups together multiple combinations of gear/talents/etc that are statistically similar to the top result. Find the best gear and talents for your character. Find your best drops. Run a quick sim to get your dps and detailed stats.