Changelog

0.3.0 (2026-11-09)

New

• Every class can now be simulated: Rogue, Mage, Warlock, Priest, Hunter, Paladin and Druid join Shaman and Warrior, each with its damage specs:
  • Rogue (Assassination, Combat, Subtlety): Stealth openers, builders (Sinister Strike, Backstab from behind, Hemorrhage, Mutilate, Ghostly Strike, Shank), Slice and Dice, Rupture and Eviscerate at the best combo points, cooldowns, and which poison to put on each weapon.
  • Mage (Arcane, Fire, Frost): the main spell, Ice Lance on Fingers of Frost, Arcane Missiles on Missile Barrage, Pyroblast on Heating Up, Improved Scorch, Ignite, Fire Blast, Arcane Wrath, cooldowns, Evocation and the wand.
  • Warlock (Affliction, Demonology, Destruction): which demon to bring (or sacrifice), every DoT, Shadow Bolt on Shadow Trance, the drains, Conflagrate, Life Tap and the wand. The Voidwalker takes the hits while you quest.
  • Priest (Shadow, and Discipline or Holy dealing damage): Shadowform, Power Word: Shield before the pull or kept up, the DoTs, Mind Blast, Shadow Word: Death, Penance, Mind Flay or Smite, and the wand.
  • Hunter (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival): Auto Shot, the shots and stings, aspects, Hunter's Mark, Rapid Fire, your pet (it tanks while questing), Bestial Wrath and Summon Hawk.
  • Paladin (Retribution): which seal, Judgement (it keeps your seal), Holy Strike, Consecration, Hammer of Wrath, Blessing of Might and Retribution Aura.
  • Druid (Feral, Balance): the simulation picks Cat Form, Moonkin Form or caster form for you, then the cat's Rip, Ferocious Bite, Rake and Shred/Claw, or Moonfire, Insect Swarm and Wrath/Starfire. WabaCombatHelper follows every one of these rotations. Not yet checked in game; please report numbers that look wrong.
• Priests, Paladins and Druids heal themselves between questing pulls (Heal or Lesser Heal, Holy Light, Healing Touch) instead of always eating.
• Shamans: the simulation tries every totem you know, one of each element: Searing or Flametongue Totem, Windfury Totem or Grace of Air, and Strength of Earth. It weighs them with your weapon imbue, so it can find pairs such as Flametongue Weapon with Windfury Totem. Windfury Weapon and Windfury Totem don't stack, nor do Flametongue Weapon and Flametongue Totem, and a Windfury Totem stops Flametongue Totem. WabaCombatHelper asks for the totems the simulation picked. Run "Sim my character" again to get them.

Fixed

• Talents and spells whose spell only changes others while it is up (Arcane Power, Presence of Mind, Cold Blood) counted as always on.
• Talents that raise a whole school's damage (Darkness, Moonfury, Searing Light) were ignored, and so were hit talents on a spell family (Suppression, Shadow Focus).
• Leveling mobs had far too much armor (2,258 at level 38, which cut your physical damage by 38%) and a little too little health (1,751 at 38). They now have about 600 armor and 2,000 health at 38, matching what players see, and the same as before at 60. Melee and Stormstrike count at their real weight, so spells and totems no longer look better than they are.
• A rotation choice that adds a button (a totem, a DoT, a shield) is only kept when it clearly beats leaving it out. Searing Totem was suggested while leveling for a gain too small to measure.
• Questing now uses your target armor setting when you set one.

0.2.2 (2026-11-07)

Fixed

• Strength was worth nothing in stat weights and "Find best gear in bags": gear with more strength got no credit for it. Run "Sim my character" again for new weights.

0.2.1 (2026-11-06)

Improved

• In a dungeon, raid or other place where the game hides your stats from addons, WabaSims says why and simulates your character as it last read it (it says when), instead of refusing.
• "Find best gear in bags" tries every combination up to 2048 of them (was 256), so a bag of a dozen items is tried in full. That can take a minute.

Fixed

• Set bonuses you already have ("Set: +10 Intellect.") and "Increases damage done by magical spells and effects" were listed as not counted. They count now.

0.2.0 (2026-11-05)

New

• Simulate for. Choose what "Sim my character" finds the best rotation for: a target dummy (damage per second, with your fight length and target settings), leveling by open world questing, leveling by questing and dungeons, dungeons, or raids at level 60.
• Leveling speed, not just damage. Open world questing is simulated as ten pulls in a row at your level. Your health and mana carry from one pull to the next, you heal yourself between pulls when you can spare the mana, and you sit down to eat and drink only when you run low. The score is kills an hour, so a rotation that kills a little slower but rarely drinks can win over one that burns mana. Results show kills an hour, how often you sit down and how much of your time goes to resting.
• Find best gear in bags. Tries the equipment in your bags against what you wear, for whatever "Simulate for" is set to, and lists what to swap. "Equip it" puts the swaps on (out of combat). It tries every combination when there are 256 or fewer, otherwise slot by slot. Weapons are tried as a set (a two-hander, or a main hand with an off-hand or shield), rings and trinkets as pairs, and set pieces together.
• Item sets count. "(2) Set:" bonuses such as +10 Intellect or +10 Attack Power are added when your gear reaches them.
• Equip lines count. "Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 7", healing, crit and hit chance, attack power, mana per 5, and totems such as "Reduces the mana cost of Flame Shock and Lightning Bolt by 5 Mana" are counted as stats. Anything that can't be simulated (procs, resistances, enchants) is listed under "Not counted".
• Talent calculator. Tick "Simulate a talent build" to open a calculator: spend your points, pick another level from the dropdown, or paste a talent string or link from Wowhead, wowsims or another calculator. While the box is ticked, runs simulate that build and the run button reads "Sim calculator build".
• Best talent build at level 60. "Find best build" (shown at 60) finds the best build in the tree you pick for what you simulate for, with the rotation for it and the order to take the points.
• Stat weights for WabaCombatHelper. After a run, WabaSims measures what each stat is worth to you and sends it with the rotation, so WabaCombatHelper can say on item tooltips whether an item is an upgrade.
• Talents side panel. A tab on the window's right edge shows the talents the simulation reads.

Improved

• Healing on your gear makes the Healing Wave you cast between pulls bigger.
• Earth Shock and Frost Shock are one choice in the rotation (they share a cooldown).
• The pull-only Lightning Bolt is marked "only out of melee range (pulling)".
• Chat says less: one line when a run ends, and WabaCombatHelper confirms the new rotation.
• Clearer wording when nothing in your bags beats what you wear ("Keep what you are wearing").

Fixed

• Haste from your gear was ignored, so characters with haste were simulated too slow.
• Every target dummy fight was exactly as long, which made haste look worthless. Fight lengths now vary a little, as in wowsims.
• Stormstrike (and other spells a talent grants) was never simulated below level 40.
• "Open in talent calculator" made the next "Sim my character" run use the calculator's build.
• Talent calculator tooltips showed your own rank instead of the calculator's.
• Buffs from other players, food and elixirs are no longer counted below level 60.

0.1.0 (2026-11-05)

First version: an in-game simulator built on wowsims/forever. It reads your character out of combat, fights a target dummy at your level, tries the rotation choices WabaCombatHelper can follow in combat, and sends the best one to WabaCombatHelper. Shaman and Warrior.