Thread of Ultimate Stupidity - Page 1115

Bolekas · 05/14/10, 6:16 AM

I've experienced Blood Princes hard mode and I followed tips to control Kinetic Bombs with pet. However my pet was a bit too slow to get Kinetic Bomb on time without my help. So I changed my pet for a spider with Dash and Mobility. It allows my pet to move in Dash durning whole encounter. It reached the Bombs without my contribution. It is a dps loss, nevertheless ranged are used to be lowest on damage in there.

IPolyakov · 05/14/10, 6:52 AM

Originally Posted by RevvRevv

Just wondering, in a mixture of 264/277 gear would it be better to use Cryptmaker hc or Bryntroll hc? The hit is all to use on cryptmaker as i would be gemming hit if using bryntroll, which is what i'm currently doing

I'd go with the cryptmaker, i do not see how gemming 100 hit instead of 100 strength can be a good idea.

Nuublet · 05/14/10, 7:52 AM

I really think we would need a deep enhance talent which makes fire nova originate from the shaman.
I must say I don't really agree with the idea that we are having ramp up problems. In fact I think we have a relatively easy time maintaining our DPS while switching targets compared to many other classes (feral druid comes to mind), though we probably suffer the most in fights that require a lot of movement. The aforementioned change would address this problem (which I see as the biggest hindrance for enhance at the moment) but maybe it would make the spell to generic for blizzards taste.

Skullbound · 05/14/10, 9:28 AM

I'm pretty sure that RI on MH has been answered and I'm sure it pulls slithly more dps since I believe the MH applies stacks faster. If I'm mistaken I appologize.

Skullbound · 05/14/10, 9:47 AM

Originally Posted by IPolyakov

I'd go with the cryptmaker, i do not see how gemming 100 hit instead of 100 strength can be a good idea.

Id say heroic bryntroll and to us str/hit gems. Hit is actually a dps increase but I don't know if 100 hit should be selected over 100 str.

Weidekuh · 05/14/10, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Kulasti

Sooo, I have a question.

For Runeforges, it's suggested we go FC on the MH and RI on the OH for single target fights. My question is why not switch the two around? Razorice does have a tiny Necrosis-like effect so, tiny as the bonus may be, I think you could get a little boost in damage done from sticking it in the MH.

Unless there's some kind of penalty to PPM chances in the OH weapon that I'm missing.

If you're expertise and hit capped, there is no difference. Since i'm not expertise capped i have FC on the offhand because the offhand never misses (it was testet somewhere in this thread, or test it yourself at the putricide encounter). I have higher proc chances for FC in my offhand.

RI does the same damage on both hands.

Zliho · 05/14/10, 11:57 AM

Do I use Wrathful Gladiator's Handaxe - Item - World of Warcraft for tanking or any other 251/264 tanking weapon? (not going to tank 25hc)

Haven't tanked for a while so im far behind on theorycrafting for tanks. I understand EHP is the way to go and there's tons of stam on the weap but not sure whats a good tradeoff for some avoidance found on a proper tanking weapon + the fact theres nice threat from the one i linked and im an orc so +5 expertise.

Thanks

StormseerCS · 05/14/10, 12:34 PM

This isn't really a lightning flash of news, but I'm concerned again about our mastery. It obviously won't scale well. Nature damage currently only amounts to around 20% of my total damage and I'm guessing that this will be lower in Cata with Lava Burst working from maelstrom charges. Someone claims to have datamined mastery bonuses (I have no idea if this is accurate) and this is what it looks like: Mastery Values

Blizzard promises to tweak talents to even out the scaling problems they are introducing with masteries, but look at their track record for this in WotLK. It's horrible. The dps differential between the "best" and "worst" dps classes in ICC runs around 25-30%. I'm not at all confident that Blizzard is going to take a class like enhance that started WotLK strong, but arguably scaled poorly (due to a variety of issues such as spell damage), tack on a mastery that impacts a tiny proportion of our damage, and keep us balanced with other dps classes through Cataclysm.

Jagerbombs · 05/14/10, 1:06 PM

Should I be replacing EVIS glyph for ToT glyph if my white crit cap is already reached due to raid buffs?

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Bittertotems · 05/14/10, 1:15 PM

Originally Posted by levk

I wouldn't dismiss it like that, you need to keep in mind how much you press the execute button. You can look at your damage breakdowns at the end of relevant fights, look at the average execute hit and see what portion of damage the glyph gives you from that and then what portion of overall damage the glyph gives you and then do the same for bladestorm and compare. Or just take the easy way out and trust the spreadsheet (it's what it really does for you anyway.)

So far I'm still low-geared, working on it, but at this level execute is my hardest hitting ability, and I do hit it constantly, and in execute phase i just keep rend up and alternate between overpower and execute. But I've been told, once I get the better gear, it drops down on the priority list, and I'll be using it a bit less often than I am right now. And I do normally do testing just like that for all my characters, but arms is one of the few classes that the rotation/playstyle changes with gear.

I'll probably work with the spreadsheet a bit, gotta learn it first. But I'll be sure to test my own things at the same time, I can't just trust any spreadsheet entirely :P Too many people out there stating stuff like "Having 100% ArPen versus 50% ArPen is 200% Dps!"

Anywhoozle, thanks for the advice

Istaril · 05/14/10, 1:23 PM

Originally Posted by Jagerbombs

Should I be replacing EVIS glyph for ToT glyph if my white crit cap is already reached due to raid buffs?

Two points - you should probably be glyphed for ToTT anyway, as it's a higher raid DPS increase. Secondly, crit capping for yellow attacks is different from white attacks because of the lower miss rate and lack of glancing hits. Unless you have a 90+% crit chance (which you don't), the glyph of eviscerate is still ~equally valuable.

Expose69 · 05/14/10, 5:13 PM

I am new to speadsheets but have had an easy enough time figuring everything out, the only question i have is if rupture is by default included in the mut rotation? I noticed blood splatter was talented by default and the rupture glyph was inputed a well. I took the points out of BS and clicked no for the glyph suggestion hoping that the program would recognize i don't use rupture in my rotation and instead just mut until x4 cp's then evis. I don't actualy see anywhere to adjust the rotation though so i am worried that the spreadsheet is working under the assumption i use rupture where i can only assume stats and gear suggestions would be a little different.

waldallo · 05/14/10, 5:35 PM

How come expertise isn't important? Should dks not go for items with expertise at all or at least become expertise capped?

Waterbottle · 05/14/10, 5:37 PM

Hello everyone! (first-time poster)

I´m in a´bit of a dilemma here. I am in a strictly 10man guild as elemental.
As all of you know, the two best trinkets drop in 25man so i´ve been pondering
what the best second trinket is. At the moment im using Spyglass(N) and expect
to have the heroic version soon. The questions is what the best choise is as the
second one. Reign of the Unliving is out of the question because pugs is not
worth mentioning on my realm. There is not many trinkets avalible, i already
have Abyssal Rune and Eye of the Broodmother witch i switch between. Is Purified
Lunardust a better alternative maybe?

svedka · 05/14/10, 6:44 PM

Stam/resil to shoulders
Armor to gloves (eng) or stam
Get the badge cloak
Socket helm to pickup the +12 stam
Lose the 20 dodge and 20 hit gems
Get a stam trinket, black heart is easily acquired.

You want WotN to kick in sooner so a higher health pool would help.