Last post I mentioned that hit rating was around the same value as haste or weaker, but that I wasn't totally sure where it lay. I looked into that a bit more.

Going through WrathCalcs to see where I'd been lazy and forgotten to take into account miss chance, the only important one I saw that I needed to account for the fact that misses don't generate Eclipse energy. Doing that did actually bump up the value of hit quite a bit. Not enough to change the things I've been saying the...

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This is a follow-up to my last post, to try to focus on what I think is a rather important point. I want to start establishing an idea that I think will eventually spread through the Balance community as people start to better understand Cataclysm gearing (and how it's different from WLK). That idea is that, as the title indicates, the hit cap is no longer important.

What do I mean by this? Basically that gear-selection decisions will almost always be made without the hit cap in...

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As I've mentioned before, occasionally I sent feedback via e-mail to devs at Blizzard. I'd been a bit quiet on WoW issues for a few weeks, but I finally put together a full summary of my current thoughts on Resto. Here's what I wrote today:

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Finally got to do some raiding on the beta since the last Resto changes. In brief I'd say things are bit better than I thought, but the main issue I outlined in the last email (Rejuv and mechanics that rely on it...

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The value of Glyph of Starsurge is a common topic of discussion among Druids lately. Since its DPS contribution is nontrivial to estimate, I'll give a quick walkthrough of the basic calculation. For actual results and final DPS comparison, as always, look at my spreadsheet, but this post explains the way the spreadsheet models Glyph of Starsurge, and contains some general mathematical points that are useful for theorycrafting.

First, we need to know the frequency of Starsurge casts....

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Hopefully this be polished up soon, but here's how it looks for now:

http://elitistjerks.com/f73/t107636-...p/#post1777982

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