I really enjoy the interface, and I like how they have best in beg for heal spec (I main heals). However a lot of crap talking about AskMrRobot. Why? Is it that bad and untrustworthy? I’m not doing Mythic or anything just HM raids
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What are you talking about?
AMR is just inferior to Raidbots. It’s better than not simming at all, for the most part though.
And simming heals is just meh. It’s just not going to tell you a whole lot. Better to get into your class discord, you’ll find far more relevant info there than you will with AMR.
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I keep hearing about how bad they are now too… But I don’t know enough to know if I’m being given good or bad information on things like that. For anything involving numbers, I need someone else to tell me what’s right and wrong. I’m not a numbers person.
He asked a clear question…
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For healing, your best bet is to download the addon “Healer Stat Weights” and see which stats are performing best for you. It gives you real time information on your stat weights based on how you heal and the encounters you are normally in.
For trinkets your class discord will probably have someone who has ran all the throughput numbers and has posted some kind of crazy spreadsheet that will tell you exactly which trinkets are better than others. Although, sometimes this can be a “feel” thing too.
DPS is relatively easy to sim, healing…on the other hand, is a whole different can of worms.
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We offer different advice and a different approach than other people. Some people love it, other people interpret different as bad. Other people believe there is only one right way to play, so anything different must be wrong.
We believe there are a lot of ways to play and perform at the top level. We offer one (or more) of those ways on our site. Our advice is not the only way, but definitely a good way. If you follow our advice, you will do great. If you follow someone else’s advice, you will also do great. The thing I love about wow is that there are so many ways to play, so many people offering advice, that as a player, you have a lot of options to choose from.
If you have specific questions Roonick, hit me up. Our forums are probably best so I see it. But I try to catch up here too 
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I am a patron of both and use both extensively. Think of it as ensemble forecasting rather than just deterministic.
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AMR is notoriously bad for healers. That said, if you are just running casual content, you could probably blindfold yourself and throw darts to pick your priority stats and it wouldn’t matter, so if you like it… it’s likely not a big deal. If you ever decide to branch out to more difficult content though, I would find something else.
If I was to look at all the patching for simc wouldn’t one assume it was bad for having to constantly fix and tweak things?
Looked at the closed pull requests on thier GitHub.
I don’t see why people feel the need to go out of thier way to call something bad and horrible unless they are scared they are wrong and don’t want to discuss anything.
Honestly from the out side it just feels like there are many theorycrafters and people in the community scared of losing thier fame and power so they feel the need to dump on anything they don’t accept.
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What’s to discuss, their stat ratings are wrong based on every other means of simulation. Do you really want to believe that they are right and every single other theorycrafting site is wrong? I mean if you do, then ok, you do you, but it’s not very realistic.
Why do you assume there is only one way of doing things. If your told to sim every time a piece of gear changes because your stat wieght can change then obviously the answer is more fuzzy than it seems.
In sims a lot of assumptions are made when generating them. And one miscalculation of how an ability works can throw a whole spec out of loop.
Your acting like it’s impossible for raidbots to be wrong, that the people theorycrafting didn’t make a mistake, and there is only one solution possible. Even the top theorycrafters will tell you that it’s possible to gear different ways and get the same dps. They generally provide what’s the most obvious or easiest for them to calculate. And even then that doesn’t necessarily mean the best.
All sims are very limited in what they are capable of doing. I rather have someone else looking at things from a different angle and trying new things vs staying stuck in old ways.
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Because that is how math works. It is not subject to our whims and desires.
Then your bad at it. There are many math equations with multiple solutions to them. When you get to calculus and up you will learn that.
Another example is many use the healer stat weight add-on to give them stat weights based on how you play. They do that because sims assume a certain way of playing. If your not playing that style it won’t work for you. And if someone made a mistake in the apl (how simc defines your rotation) or a better way of doing a rotation is discovered once again your stat weight chnages.
Assuming the weights are set correctly there isn’t anything wrong with it. That said last time I used it (it was a while ago) the weights were really off on default
Still can’t be as bad when a Blizzard lead developer said a particular sim add on was terrible. Totally inaccurate.
Oh can you point me to the post ? Would love to read that.
I’m in a dilemma, should I follow AMR or just keep using Noxxic?
I see what you did there.
You made me cringe. That’s what.
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Truthfully though, how is Noxxic even still around