Originally Posted by Acedude
I'm also very eager for 2.1 to arrive so i can mess around with survival. I'm starting to collect some agi-heavy gear already, but DKP and rogues stand in my way =P I think the 12agi metagem is very worth getting simply because it makes every crit that much more valuable.
I've done some Boom testing on PTR with Barrel-Blade gun and 0/20/41 build, but the results are less than desirable. I'm using the 1 auto and 1 special priority queue, and the dps that the gun yields is quite a bit lower than the Glad xbow using a auto/steady/special rotation. It just seems to me that I'm not getting in enough shots per minute, since there are times when my 2/3 EW wasn't up for a good amount of time. I'm assuming that I'm running into some unlucky crit droughts, and the problem could be alleviated via raid buffs such as Kings, GoA, and LotP.
Survival looks very promising, but it's still hard for me to gauge the spec without great survival gears and the raid buffs.
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If you lack SS, my impression is that you want to go as slow as possible in order to fit that second special into the rotation. If you're doing 1 special / 1 auto you wind up with a lot of dead time between shots. A 2.60 speed weapon with a quiver is 2.26 speed; this is kind of in the midrange where it's too fast to easily accommodate a second special but slow enough that you have some time between autoshots where you won't be shooting at all.
Given that the spec is crit heavy with Mortal Shots, you probably just want to stay with the slow weapon and increase your number of shots, although that's just my unsubstantiated opinion.