Thread of Ultimate Stupidity - Page 1111

Pdawg · 05/11/10, 3:31 PM

Originally Posted by TheEnder

Has anyone ever gone through and personally modeled the JC/Engineer vs BS/Engineer? IE: Tried both to see which is prefered.

I don't believe there's anything special to model. BS vs JC comes down to 2x20 strength or 3x14 strength. JC is superior by 2 strength until Cataclysm comes around.

Artherily · 05/11/10, 4:10 PM

Originally Posted by Deadmauzz

Today, [Ether-Soaked Bracers] dropped in Heroic 10m ICC. Prior to the drop, I had [The Lady's Brittle Bracers] equipped. I was torn as to whether or not I should immediately equip [Ether-Soaked Bracers] or store it in the bank and continue using [The Lady's Brittle Bracers] for the crit.

I optimized my gear using Rawr, and I came up with some interesting but potentially erroneous results. First of all, Rawr suggested I replace my helm enchant, which is currently [Arcanum of Burning Mysteries], with [Arcanum of Blissful Mending]. It also told me to replace my [Formula: Enchant Weapon - Black Magic] enchant with [Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Exceptional Spirit]. Finally, Rawr suggested that I replace my Icewalker boot enchant with +18 Spirit to boots. Given that I'm 20 hit over the cap for fire, I could understand giving up some of my hit at the risk of losing some crit, but I'm completely at a loss in regards to my head and weapon enchant.

Any ideas?

P.S. I checked all the fire mages in top-tier raiding guilds in the US & EU. I didn't see any of the enchants that Rawr suggested on any of the mages in the respective guilds. I have a strong feeling Rawr's wrong, but I don't know what's causing it to suggest such things for my mage.

As far as I know for boot enchant you want [Formula: Enchant Boots - Tuskarr's Vitality] if you run more than 4 seconds every minute it is a dps increase.

Yetigeeze · 05/11/10, 7:00 PM

Originally Posted by Xelloss

I am sorry for a silly question I forget things a lot so I have end going in combat without molten armor or other buffs is there a mod that let you check for buffs? bedsides power auras?

I use one called Buffenough, not only lets you know if your missing your own buffs but will let you know what you should have based on group/raid composition and if you forget flasks/elixers.

karasandra · 05/11/10, 8:46 PM

Q: What about a single-disease rotation/spec?
A: Those died back in Ulduar when Blizzard made all our strikes %-based scaling off of diseases. Long story short: you lose more damage than you gain, do the math if you don't believe me.

I have to disagree with this both me and another frost dk are running single disease and are hitting 9k dps single target self buff'd.
if you want to try it its really easy use this spec 12/56/3
Priority is Howling Blast, OB, Blood Strike(to flip runes), Frost Strike to runic dump

nicolezelsmann · 05/11/10, 9:41 PM

Fürious · 05/11/10, 9:56 PM

To answear my own question :

I've choise the Darkmoon Card.

[Darkmoon Card: Greatness]

My DPSpvp waypon is [Last Word] with berserker. This Waypon buff me all the time. And my shield is my PVE shield for the moment, i don't know if ArenaShield is better or not...

My Shield : [Neverending Winter] With +48 Sta.

So when i've all my proc i have 400+ strength.
I wish use [Libram of Valiance] for the strength proc.

For the moment it's available in Pvp and Arena.
I enjoy it.

Tengarez · 05/11/10, 11:47 PM

Posting in this thread too...

I just got shadowmourne, and I am being told if I get an addon to cancel the 10 stack buff or 300 strength buff every time. People are telling me it is a dps increase because of the rate the stacks increase. The ~2700 damage hit would be a better dps increase then the 10 seconds of 300 strength. Is this true or false?

-Mistaclean

Driftshadow · 05/12/10, 1:00 AM

Hey fellow rogues,

I need some gemming advice on my rogue. I very recently, just switched to pure haste gems as much as possible to push my haste rating up to 868, but then resulting in a massive AP loss.

Previously I socketed 40AP into red and 20AP 10 haste into yellow sockets. This previously resulted in 500+ haste and 5.3k AP. Kinda nervous about gemming pure haste, so would like all your inputs about it.

EJ FAQs and guides say AP and haste are the money stats. However many top-end muti rogues I see push their haste. Is AP not that important in this case?

Thanks in advance.

Intruder · 05/12/10, 1:11 AM

If haste is sheeting out as better, it probably is better. Attack power has been a very competitive stat for most of the expansion, but generally there is a tipping point where you hit so hard that hitting more often turns out to be a marginally better deal than doing a few more points per swing here and there. Whether you've hit that point or not is something I can't say without running you through a sheet myself. Ultimately, haste and attack power are often so close together at current gear levels that I wouldn't worry too much about the sheet being wrong in any case; they're both pretty "safe" stats to gem anyway as mutilate provided that you're meeting your hit and crit cap needs are already met without gems.

mrgalabama · 05/12/10, 2:45 AM

how do you import your armory into the spreadsheet?? i tried and that didnt go to well.

Roffle · 05/12/10, 3:23 AM

Originally Posted by Furtim

Unless you've manually fixed the stats for Heroic Heartpierce (and LK weapons), they are incorrect. Aldriana's sheet, and my modified version for that fact, has it listed as having 125ap, rather it's real world stats of 95ap, so it gets valued higher than it actually is. This 30ap discrepancy is usually enough to put the Heroic Ribspreader in the lead with it's raw stats.

Heroic Heartpierce is on the Gear sheet, line 197.

These are small enough bugs that they don't warrant new releases of the sheets, hence why they haven't been done since their reals stats have been found/updated to.

Thank you for the clarification. I'll make the change and see if it is consistent with the iDPS java app.

martinbishop · 05/12/10, 10:11 AM

So After grabbing the new build of the spreadsheet ive not had accurate reflections of my Hit/Arm Pen numbers. Spreadsheet right now tells me that im -36 for hit when my in game hit is at 167 (should read -3 as I understand this). Also it said my armpen with NES was -49 and I switched a gem to make sure this was incorrect as well as now im -29 according to spreadsheet but under 100% in game with nes proc since i switched one gem back to str.

I have also tried to go back to the older spreadsheet and it is also showing incorrect data. Not sure what is happening unless the armory is incorrectly linking info to the spreadsheet today for some reason. With all of this I also noticed that I need one more point in exp that isnt showing either in spreadsheet.

Please advise...

Martinbishop - Hakkar

Draahl · 05/12/10, 11:13 AM

Seems far fetched but ill give it a try.

Mman · 05/12/10, 11:26 AM

This is just pie in the sky dreaming, but it sure would be convenient if searing totem put a debuff on whatever it was attacking that would allow the fire nova to be centered on that mob. It would solve a lot of the movement issues. They could tie it into an enhancement talent if they felt it was too powerful for other specs to have (although I don't think it would be).

Drakkan · 05/12/10, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Roop

Damage wise HS Vs IT, quite obviously HS wins. However you don’t need extra damage when DPS is on your ass in threat. So altering the occasional HS to an IT to keep a lead over DPS is more important than the DPS lost. Consider this, if you had even more of a lead in threat over the DPS, the DPS chasing you would not have to worry about threat and may do more DPS than the DPS you lost from altering a HS to an IT.

Yeah, this made a ton of sense. I hate the idea of 'spamming' IT to be able to keep threat, but at least we have the opportunity to do it. Last night on LK I would do my normal rotation as usual but instead of using death runes for heart strikes I used IT for most. It was absolutely amazing the threat gained. I can use my tanking weapon again! Thanks guys.