This is an event-driven gameplay simulator for World of Warcraft Classic written in C++. It is called "ClassicSim", or CSIM for short. Its purpose is to provide feedback to a user regarding the value of equipment, talents, consumables, rotation choices, etc.
For information regarding new features / bug fixes in upcoming release, check Next release.
Licensing information can be found in LICENSE.md.
Releases are available at the ClassicSim website.
These are some of the features of this tool:
- Talent calculator (try shift-left/right click talents)
- World buffs and consumables
- Enchants
- Rulesets (Standard, Vaelastrasz, Loatheb)
- Equipment sheet (with full stat filter support)
- Data-driven rotations
- Statistics
Interested in how certain mechanics are currently implemented? Check Mechanics Details in the wiki.
See the Release Roadmap for information regarding the upcoming releases.
Upcoming features and bug fixes that are merged but not yet built and made available as a release:
None (available release is up to date with the latest on master).
- System is now in place for downgrading spells.
- Seal of Command rotation downgrades Consecration to R1 if Vengeance is not up.
- Manual Crowd Pummeler is now available.
- Target base armor now modifiable in Settings.
- Button to reset defaults in Settings now available.
- UX improvements - more obvious buttons, improved layout in Settings, faction text colors for certain elements.
- Only Consecration can currently be downgraded as other spells lack the spell data at this time.
- Paladin support (spells, talents, gear sets, Seal of the Crusader and Seal of Command rotations).
- Items now sorted according to content phases rather than original vanilla patches.
- More two-hand weapons, necks, backs, and plate items available.
- Fix bug for Warriors using Vaelastrasz ruleset which caused Execute to not be evaluated properly.
- Demonic Runes and Night Dragon's Breath now usable in rotations.
- Buffs and debuffs can now be range-selected with shift-click and toggled with ctrl.
- Flask of Supreme Power, Flask of Distilled Wisdom, Mageblood Potion are available to use as external buffs.
- Mutually exclusive buff groups are now in place, selecting e.g. a flask will deactivate any other active flask effect.
- Improved Backstab now yields the proper crit chance to Backstab.
- Conditions for rotational choices are now displayed in the GUI under Rotations.
- Rotation and internal engine statistics now displayed in the GUI under Statistics.
- Hunter PvP sets and many non-set mail items added.
- Enchants are now stored between gear setup changes and sessions.
- Vaelastrasz ruleset properly yields resource gains again.
- Resource gains now displayed by gain per 5s instead of total gain.
- If scrolling down to the bottom of a rotation and selecting another then the new rotation is not displayed properly. Fixed by re-selecting the rotation.
- All DPS increasing talents except melee/Arcane Shot/Serpent Sting boosts now available for Hunter.
- Pet (Cat) has been added. It is fully affected by Beast Mastery talents.
- Many Hunter-relevant items and sets added.
- Projectiles can now be equipped.
- Usage of Hunter's Mark/Rapid Fire/Aspect of the Hawk/Bestial Wrath.
- Lesser/Brilliant Mana Oil available as temporary enchants.
- Sniper scopes available as enchants for Hunters.
- Blessing of Wisdom/Mana Spring Totem and Grilled Squid available as external buffs.
- Quiver bonus is hardcoded as a 15% ranged attack speed increase.
- Added player reaction to auto shot to improve the flow of Hunter AS/MS rotation.
- Fix crash if simming Hunter with a mainhand equipped but no ranged weapon.
- Only Cat is available to use as pet.
- It is not possible to simulate without 15% quiver bonus for Hunter.
- Sorting projectiles on type does not work.
- Rudimentary Hunter support (Aimed Shot / Multi-Shot rotation).
- User setup saved on exit and loaded on boot.
- Battle Shout now selectable as external buff for non-Warriors.
- Crash if simming Hunter with a mainhand equipped but no ranged weapon.
- Only Aimed Shot/Multi-Shot available for hunter rotation.
- Only Efficiency and Aimed Shot available as implemented talents.
- Only a single bow available for selection.
- Ammunition not available for selection.
- No mp5 gear is available for selection.
- No pet.
- Set bonus information now displayed in item tooltips.
- Many set bonuses added to existing items.
- New set items added.
- Berserker Rage used in rotations again.
- Bloodfang Bracers are now bracers rather than gloves.
- Hemorrhage with basic rotation added.
- More Subtletly talents added (Deadliness, Serrated Blades).
- Items not available for class or faction now filtered.
- Many leather items and several daggers added.
- Dense and Consecrated Sharpening Stones added.
- Add base melee AP and melee critical strike chance to rogues.
- Fix bug which caused rogues to evaluate 1 CP Eviscerate as a valid rotational choice.
- Sinister Strike added; regular Combat rotation added to use it.
- Combat talents now implemented (those that are directly damage increasing in a target dummy environment).
- Assassination talents mostly implemented (missing Cold Blood, Imp EA, Imp KS, Remorseless Attacks).
- Few Subtletly talents now implemented (Opportunity).
- Poisons are available to be applied as temporary enchants.
- Update rogue white hit spells such that they use the new-ish way of calculating target armor and crit chance. This fixes the bug that rogue white hits (1) could not crit, (2) ignored target armor.
- Rudimentary Rogue support (Combat Dagger rotation with Backstab, SnD, Eviscerate available).
- More enchants (all superior versions for physical DPS now available).
- Fix melee AP double dip from STR/AGI gained via buffs / base stats (i.e. not including equipment).
- Felstriker buff duration fixed (duration was missing due to including old .xml-file).
- Extra attacks no longer trigger new proc checks.
- Extra attacks no longer consume Flurry charges.
- Using an Alliance race with Blessings enabled is once again possible to simulate.
- Fix crash when switching talent setups where setups specced talent with active children.
- For contributors: the .pro file now has relative INCLUDEPATHs; project directory structure no longer forced.
- For contributors: it is now possible to build on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04) using the directions in the Wiki.
- Only the following rogue spells are available: Backstab, SnD, Eviscerate.
- Only the following rogue talents have an effect on the character: Adrenaline Rush.
- Some rogue talents have wrong tooltips.
- Rogue has likely incorrect base stat values as they were borrowed from Warrior (changing STR to AGI).
- Full sim with stat weight calculations.
- Debuff uptime statistics.
- Use trinkets supported in rotation (Diamond Flask, Zandalarian Hero Medallion, Earthstrike, Badge of the Swarmguard, Slayer's Crest, Jom Gabbar, Kiss of the Spider).
- Rend and Anger Management added. Arms/Fury now fully supported for single-target damage.
- Fury rotations now cast Bloodthirst over Execute if above 2k melee AP.
- Loatheb ruleset now has no glancing blows.
No new restrictions; all delivered features, improvements, and bug fixes are expected to be complete.
Initial release:
- Warrior advanced support (missing Protection talents, Rend, Anger Management)
- Supporting systems (talent calculator, equipment selection, world buffs / consumables, data-driven rotations)
- Quick sim with statistics
- No full sim
- Some missing statistics (stat weight calculations, rotation, dps distribution, debuff uptimes)
- Character level locked to 60
- Spell ranks locked
- Only warrior available
- Items lists incomplete
- Rotations must be viewed in the actual .xml files instead of within the application
- Only single target simulation available
- and more..
Q: Why do this..?
A: For me it is an ode to vanilla.
Q: When is class X or specialization Y supported?
A: See the Release Roadmap for information when specific classes/specs are planned to be supported.
Q: What is the proc chance of Ironfoe or other procs? A: Ironfoe has at the time of writing a 2.7% proc chance. Most procs have a placeholder proc chance at 5%, but you can change the 'rate' attribute in the .xml files. Try a 100% proc rate Ironfoe!
Q: Only Windows support? And 32-bit?
A: I plan to make a Linux release available, it is all a matter of priority. Compiling 64-bit is not supported by Qt Creator on Windows out of the box (at least not in the open-source version). If you know more about this feel free to contact me!
Q: (not really a question) Nothing happens when I click "Click me!" / "Run Full Sim".
A: Make sure you have equipped a mainhand weapon if a melee rotation is used, or a ranged weapon if a ranged rotation is used.
Q: How many iterations are being run?
A: Clicking the "Click me!" button in the top-right corner runs the quick sim, which by default runs 1000 iterations. Clicking the bottom-left "Run Full Sim" button runs the full sim, which by default runs 10000 iterations. Both of these can be changed under "Settings".
Q: How is this or that mechanic implemented?
A: A lot of scouring the forums. The demo showed how some mechanics work but we know for a fact their work is not yet complete. So far the main focus have been to make sure the mechanics are easily updated. Check Mechanics Details in the wiki for fairly detailed information regarding how the more obvious mechanics are implemented.
Q (not really a question): This mechanic is implemented incorrectly!
A: If the mechanic is incorrect because of a bug, then feel free to open an issue or discuss it with me in messages. If you disagree that is how the mechanic should work because it is either not vanilla-like, or not the way one private server implemented it then it will probably not get changed until Classic is released and we can find the actual answer.
Q (not really a question): It crashed!
A: Please let me know what you were doing!
Thanks to all the theorycrafters over the years that have tirelessly worked towards refining our understanding of the game. None mentioned, none forgotten.