How to use Rawr.Class - Theorycrafting ToolFollow

First, go to http://www.codeplex.com/Rawr/ (it is also linked in my sig) and get the newest version. It is updated fairly often, so I recommend whenever you are going to optimize to check and make sure yours is up to date.

Note: As of right now, not every single spec is supported by Rawr. Many are, but do not be surprised if it may give weird numbers for your class.

By default, Rawr is not compatible with Macs/Linux. You will need to use an application such as Mono to run it. According to the latest patch notes for Rawr "If you're running Rawr via Mono on OSX/Linux, you'll need to use Mono v2.2. The latest version (v2.4) has a bug that prevents Rawr from running."

For other potential errors:

- If you get a 'Cannot access a disposed object' error, that's a bug in an old version of the .NET Framework. Uninstall all versions of .NET Framework that you have, and reinstall the latest from Microsoft (3.5SP1)
- If you get a 'The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135)' or similar error when starting Rawr you most likely don't have .NET Framework installed. You can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/NET/.

The following instructions are for Rawr.Mage, but I'm sure that they are quite similar in principle for the other supported classes/specs.

Opening Screen
Import your Character
Your Character
Cast Rotation Information by Hovering Over the Acronyms
Your Talents + Glyphs
Your Raid Buffs
The Options Tab
Selecting Different Gear Slots
My Bracers Example
Choosing Gems to Optimize
Using the Optimizer
After Anobix was Optimized
My Character Screen after being Optimized

The software isn't 100% perfect, but it will give you an excellent view into your gear, gem choices, enchants, and what you can do to improve/where you can get better gear/what rotations work better.

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I like it. Some of the features RAWR has aren't the easiest to figure out how to utilize by yourself, and the screen shots that you posted really help explain what they do. I'd definitely support having this as a sticky.

Rawr is not directly compatible with macs but you should be able to find a guide on their forums for how to get it working.

I will edit the original OP with a link as well.

edit: you will need to use an application called Mono on OSX/Linux. And version 2.2 is what is compatible according to this:



Can be found here: http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/2.2/download/

Edited, Jun 3rd 2009 6:44pm by Anobix

This is pretty amazing I must say.

I have to ask though, my DPS in raid usually falls between 3.5k-4k on bosses. That is with optimal buffs(pally for kings, elem shammy, druid, and priest). With same thing, according to Rawr my DPS should be 5353 over a 5 min fight.
Does it use a different spell strat than ABx3 -> ABar/MBar?

I played around with Rawr a bit earlier today after reading Anobix's posts, and if you scroll down farther, you can see what your estimated dps should be for each type of rotation. There's quite a few of them listed, and it's a tad bit confusing, but if you read them a few times you should be able to figure it out. For the most part, it seems like ABx3 and then AM regardless of proc is pretty close to the best dps rotation. There's a few others that are a bit higher, by maybe ten to twenty dps, but that's hardly enough to warrant giving up the ease and simplicity of ABx3, AM.

Rawr claims that I should be doing just under 3k dps with that rotation, and I seem to avg. about 2.7k so I would assume that it doesn't consider things like movement for specific fights.

Yeah, seeing that figure in Rawr made me feel a whole lot better about my dps. :-) I've been beating myself up about it, wondering why it is there are Arcane mages who can pull 6k+ dps when I can't even do half of that! Especially since I'm almost in full epics now (although only three of my pieces are lvl 213) and there are people in my guild that are out dpsing me that are less geared than I am. I have a tendency to get a bit over competitive at times.

Good idea, I will take a look into that and see if I can throw something together.


I looked at the application, and when viewing the Help stuff it linked me to:
http://rawr.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Gemmings

Which explains it as well as I could have, and it is already written. woohoo!

Edited, Jun 5th 2009 8:56am by Anobix

I cannot get this to work no matter what i seem to try. I've downloaded it and put it in the correct folder, however when i log on and check my addons button its no where to be found D:<

quite frustrating.
using vista, any suggestions?

/sigh

Guess i should have read better. Just figured it would be an addon. Thank you :P

That is a good question. I believe that it does not calculate when you look at the two. So you will want to see what the DPS value of your offhand is + a mainhand to find out what would be better for you.

I will likely be keeping my Lifebinder staff (off of Freya) for a while.

Edited, Jul 8th 2009 1:45pm by Anobix