I stumbled into a very interesting website about a month ago called askmrrobot.com. The premise is simple, import your character and have Mr. Robot audit your toon’s enchants, reforges, and gemming to optimize performance. I find the interface very slick and easy to use, and it saves me tons of time with my old spreadsheets.
The only real gripe I have with the site, shouldn’t really be one because it seems unavoidable; there are no options to easily specify what your roll in the raid is. I’ve noticed that spell selection varies greatly for healers with role, and masteries complicate this further. For example, Mastery is currently a much better stat for a Disc priest that is assigned to raid heal a 25 man because you’ll probably be throwing a lot of PW:S around big damage spikes. Conversely, if you run 10m raids as a Disc tank healer then you probably are looking more to haste and crit to support your assignment.
There are ways to account for these differences however; all stat weights are totally customizable, there is however no preset way to account for your play without fiddling with these. The problem is that, in general, if a healer is knowledgeable enough to properly evaluate secondary stats based on their role in a raid, then they most likely don’t need a site like Mr. Robot to help them work out issues with their gear.
All things considered, I do in fact use the site to help me finesse gear a bit. I haven’t noticed any drastic swings in performance one way or another, but it’s nice for quickly figuring out things like how much equivalent spirit a trinket is worth. Forum mods and site developers are very active and quick to answer questions, even when they are ones that have been posted 50 times before. The development of their mobile app seems to be progressing nicely and will find its way onto my phone as soon as they put it up on the market. I urge all of the arm-chair-theorycrafters out there to give Mr. Robot a look.
~Swagg
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