Let's discuss Heroic Lich King.

I'm the Resto Shaman who's chosen for this fight and this is my 'current' healing strategy for the fight. Firstly, you need to know my spec: Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft (I did this because the armoury is slow, down etc).

I take the SoE talent because 22 strength and agility is a DPS boost and you need all the DPS you can possibly achieve. Anyway, on with the healing strategy. I tend to use Earth Shield on our LK tank, a Druid, and spam him with RT > LHW > LHW. Likewise, on our Shambler offtank, a Prot Pally, I use RT > LHW > LHW every 12~ seconds just to keep up the Ancestral Healing buff (ala, he takes much less damage). When the Infest is casting, I quickly switch to our melee warriors/ret pallies/dks who'll be attacked by ghouls and heal them until Infest is gone - then I switch back to the tanks.

The transition is pretty self explanatory - I spam Chain Heal, keeping up Ancestral Healing, and hope that no melee eat a Spirit Burst.

As for the Valkyr phase, when we can actually kill them with relative success I'll report back. Hard fight is hard.

I noticed thier was not much mentioned in the thread about destruction...is that because they really didn't change that much during 3.3? The simulation that your are running is that based upon running nothing but 277 gear and did I see that warlocks in 277 gear are only going to be doing a max of 13.7k dps?

I was wondering if I could use your add-on IP to add RaidComp functionality on my web-site (I got a pug-planning site, I bet RL would love to see buffs on top of simple tank/heal/range/melee count).

Basically talking about raidcomp.mmo-champs.com reincarnation.

My character currently has 3/3 Resourcefulness but, for some reason, when I switch to 2/3 on the spreadsheet it increases my DPS by 1 point. Anyone know why this happens? I presume reducing mana cost isn't the factor here--it probably has something to do with reducing the cooldown of Black Arrow. I'm using the most current version, 93i and my talent build can be found: The World of Warcraft Armory - Zardon @ Medivh - Talents

I was trying to optimize my survival talent build when I noticed this. Such oddities make me question the accuracy of any possible talent changes I come up with.

p.s. if you know of an optimal SV talent build w/o a pocket Retribution Paladin/Mana Totem/Blessing of Wisdom feel free to direct me to it. :P

all i have to say is PETS use energy, not fucking hunters. screw blizzard and their pathetic but persistent attempts to reduce all hunters to huntards

Has anyone tried this spec out?
The World of Warcraft Armory

Its on my DK
The World of Warcraft Armory - Ditchpig @ Spirestone - Profile

It is generally accepted that points invested in Resourcefulness talent will return a significantly reduced benefit for each point you are investing into the talent. Going from 2/3 -> 3/3 Resourcefulness for example, will still show a DPS increase in most gearing situations but this DPS increase is vastly diminished compared to, say, 1/3 -> 2/3, and especially 0/3 -> 1/3. As such, if you can find better talents to put this 1 or 2 points into, then it is usually more worthwhile to do so.

This situation is caused by the fact that the reduced Black Arrow CD benefit given by the talent is greatly reduced if we allude to the fact that Black Arrow is not on the very top priority of SV priority system. As such, even when you reduce the CD of BA further, the talent is essentially "wasted" every time you won't be able to fire it (due to GCD clash with higher priority options). Another factor is that the only useful part of BA is the debuff and the LnL proc chance, not the damage of BA. Also we have to remember that LnL has a 22 secs CD, further reducing the benefit of reducing BA's CD.

As such, in most of current gearing choices, high investment in Resourcefulness talent takes a huge slump in effectiveness. Such situations :
- ICC gear is kinda hit-starved compared to previous tiers, and as such FA might be a more appealing option depending on your gearset.
- Another option is Imp IAotH, which helps the uptime of 2T10 bonus and also boosts autoshot and steadyshot damage which, at current ArP level on gear and better weapon scaling than ES, are taking a larger pie of SV's damage contribution.
- Gearset which still includes 2T9 bonus will of course find Imp Stings talent more appealing.
- The alternative 6/14/51 build needs all the points it can get to reach Focused Fire, and as such the last point of Resourcefulness would be the ideal source to sacrifice.

Blessing of Wisdom - Spell - World of Warcraft are NOT the ones contributing significantly to hunter's mana return (they still help some, though). Most SV builds (and MM) can survive well without BoW/Mana Spring. It is Judgement of Wisdom - Spell - World of Warcraft (JoW) that we depend largely upon for our mana return, even more than Replenishment (second largest source of mana return). Based on my experience, any standard SV builds with at least 2 points in TotH (Thrill of the Hunt - Spell - World of Warcraft) can last well on most normal-length fights (~5 mins) without JoW and Replenishment.

I noticed this in the 3.3.3 update:

Thunderclap: This ability now counts as a ranged attack, granting it double damage on critical strikes instead of 150% and ranged miss chance, and still cannot be dodged or parried.

Does this mean thunderclap would now benefit from a Heartseeker Scope? Wouldn't be a huge boost, but there's nothing else to put on the gun!

Does this take into account that Lightning Bolt has a 33% Overload proc chance, while Chain Lightning on a single target only has 11%, or is it just the average damage per "initial" hit of the spells?

Overall, Chain Lightning use comes down a lot to how it interacts with your Lava Burst rotation / haste value.

For example, with 25ms lag I cast LBs at 1.34 speed, which means I cast 6 of them in 8.04 seconds, so I can use LvB just as it comes of cooldown.

But if you were casting Bolts at 1.4 s speed, casting 6 would take 8.4 seconds, so you could smoothen your rotation a lot by replacing the first or second bolt after each Lava Burst with a Chain Lightning.

Similarily, there are be haste values where it's bad to cast Chain Lightning cause you will finish casting a fraction of a second before LvB comes off cooldown and will thus have to cast another spell instead and delay the LvB cast.

Of course this will vary during Bloodlust / Berserking / Elemental Mastery, but given some time and experience you will find out whether casting CL can improve your rotation during normal cast / haste cooldowns.

I've noticed that some the frost death knights in Paragon (EU Lightning's Blade) have Razorice on MH and Fallen Crusader on OH.

The World of Warcraft Armory - Liha @ Lightning's Blade - Profile
The World of Warcraft Armory - Devah @ Lightning's Blade - Profile

Does the placement of Runeforging change once a death knight reaches certain gear levels and or stats?

So the best spec for Tier 10 + ICC raid gear + Shadowmourne is 0/17/54 with Reaping?