Fine Tuning

This is a classless guide for fine tuning your character and understanding what gear is good for you.

1. Visit Simulationcraft.
2. Read your class forum and try to understand the math a bit.
3. Gather your class weights. You can see an example Sample Output. Go to the wowhead link and click it next to the class and build that is there. If you can't find it simply hit CTRL+F and wowhead and you will stumble upon the link to wowhead that has gear weights already added.
   
4. Head to Google Docs.
   
5. New->Spreadsheet
6. Fill in your weights.
7. Add the best gem you can get.. the one everyone wants. For Warlocks that's the runed scarlet ruby.
8. For my current build I put 1.56 as the value of spellpower. I multiply that by 19 to get a result of 29.64 for socketing a runed scarlet ruby.
9. Then I take my helm slot and notice I have a blue socket with a socket bonus of 8 spirit for the Lifespark Visage my current helm. I look at the values and plug them in knowing I am comparing them against breaking the socket bonus for the 19 spellpower gem. The best gem for blue slots for Warlocks right now is the purple Purified Twilight Opal
   and that gives 9 spellpower and 8 spirit, but with the socket bonus that is a total of 16 spirit and 9 spellpower. Using the spreadsheet I get: 14.04, 7.52, 7.52 = 29.08 which is lower than the value for the 19 spellpower gem, so I break the socket's bonus.

The rule for gearing and tweaking is that better is better.