Thread of Ultimate Stupidity - Page 1464

Zucko · 12/28/10, 9:23 PM

With S9 starting and the ease of getting the Vicious weapons, how viable is it to use a S9 weapon over a 346 heroic dagger for Assassination?

zbysow · 12/28/10, 9:34 PM

Do you think 4set pvp gear is worth using in raids at start ? Assuming you have ilvl246 heroics mostly, even ilvl252 pvp gear has 15-20 more agility on each piece, also 70+180 agility from bonus (before any multipliers) is huge. Not sure about actual dps but just switching gears I get extra 350+ agility, about 600 more AP, and 2% less crit. And some hit loss, but after reforging it will be around 5% crit loss, while you gain 350 agility, 5% focus regen etc.

I know resilience is bit wasted stat, but its 4 pieces of gear only. Might be worth a try ?

EzBakeOven715 · 12/28/10, 9:50 PM

New to the forums. Looking for some help. In BH10 earlier, as a Fire Mage, I only pulled 8k dps. I used what I've read here and still people are pulling 15k. I'm at my wits end.

What do I need to fix/change in order to up my DPS?

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HiTmAn47 · 12/28/10, 10:45 PM

Hello ...

I wanna know how much dps I gain when I use glyph of Incinerate instead of glyph of felguard ?

also at what mastery rating my glyph of felguard > glyph of Incinerate ...

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Cototheburn · 12/28/10, 10:47 PM

Dont know if this has been asked yet.

I have saw that the Destruction and the Demon spec threads are out, but when will Afflic be out?

horstp · 12/28/10, 11:07 PM

So I basically have enough Conquest Points for the 359 2H-Weapon now. Currently I'm using Zin'Rokh and the Tol'Barad 2H-Sword. I could replace the Sword, gaining 70 more Weapon DPS. But I'm losing 1.5% hit by doing that. Simulationcraft seems to see no difference, and I don't know what to use instead. Or is the difference just this marginal?

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spoonman184 · 12/28/10, 11:17 PM

I am having a difficult time believing the Intellect to Hit stat weightings.

For example, as Affliction the stat weightings are at about 3 and 1.5-2 respectively. Assuming your Haunt misses, you would be losing the damage buff of 23% for all other DOTs. How is it even reasonable that Corruption, BoA, and UA scale THAT well with Intellect?

Kalveron · 12/28/10, 11:41 PM

with the new patch comeing up Shadow and Flame will make incinerate proc the imp shadowbolt effect, would it not be considered better to forgo sb completly in favor of inc on or off MC cd?
also in relation to the patch they are going to tinker with imp soulfire so there is going to be some adjustments with that talent and our dps

zarusa · 12/28/10, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by spoonman184

I am having a difficult time believing the Intellect to Hit stat weightings.

For example, as Affliction the stat weightings are at about 3 and 1.5-2 respectively. Assuming your Haunt misses, you would be losing the damage buff of 23% for all other DOTs. How is it even reasonable that Corruption, BoA, and UA scale THAT well with Intellect?

Even if a Haunt misses your shadowbolt+pet dmg dont suffer from that which is a pretty big chunk of your dps while intelligence grants more mana; spellpower(for every spell in your arsenal) and a tiny amount of crit.

@ Some Simcraft pro, could it be simmed to show a bossfight like ascendant council in 2 different ways of dotting as affliction ?

First way: Dotting targets the normal way up; not clipping bane of agony
Second way: Dotting first target and use Soulswap to clip the first dot to expire on the second mob

Pros of first way

Not clipping Bane of Agony

Pros of Second Way

Less gcd's (2 instead of 3)
Less mana spend

zarusa · 12/29/10, 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by Kalveron

with the new patch comeing up Shadow and Flame will make incinerate proc the imp shadowbolt effect, would it not be considered better to forgo sb completly in favor of inc on or off MC cd?
also in relation to the patch they are going to tinker with imp soulfire so there is going to be some adjustments with that talent and our dps

The patch changed nothing for demonology warlocks because shadow bolt still yields more dps than incinerate as a filler spell; the change is probably intended because destros had to suffer a tiny dps loss and cast a shadowbolt every 30 seconds to apply the debuff. (Officially the change is probably justified because it does not feel like a destruction lock if you have to cast shadowbolt or so)

Melfqw · 12/29/10, 12:17 AM

On Dark Intent,
As we all know, this spell works better the more DoTs or HoTs they(they being the target of our Dark Intent) use the more the spell procs for us. While it is common knoledge that some classes use more DoTs(or HoTs) then others such as, a shadow preist vs a pallly. While in theory some do more then others, all characters are different, and play their class different. At first i throw it on a easy target, like a shadow preist. After a few fights I check my recount, and see who has the most DoT/HoT uptime. To the winner, goes the spoils.

matmal · 12/29/10, 12:35 AM

I tried to search but couldn't find this.

It says Expertise cap is 781 (or 26) But at 781 I am well over 26, its more like 37 or something. So I am not sure which to go off, 26 expertise which is 400 or so rating, or the 781.

Thanks.

Alleyra · 12/29/10, 1:26 AM

Originally Posted by matmal

I tried to search but couldn't find this.

It says Expertise cap is 781 (or 26) But at 781 I am well over 26, its more like 37 or something. So I am not sure which to go off, 26 expertise which is 400 or so rating, or the 781.

Thanks.

Your armory profile shows Glyph of Seal of Truth as one of your Primary Glyphs. 781 rating assumes one is not using the SoT glyph.

Zelyon · 12/29/10, 3:40 AM

I'm having a bit of a problem. As you can see, I'm a Fire mage. I've read over the fire mage thread many a time, so I realize what I should be doing. I'm hit capped for heroics (I'm not planning on doing any raiding at the moment, not even BH), as I'm sure you can see.

However, my DPS is very, very low. Even on something like a training dummy, spamming Fireball (well, putting up LB and using Flame Orb when it was up), I was only doing about 7k DPS or so, something I could have easily, easily done at 80.

Is there any glaring problem with my gear that I am missing as to why I am doing so very little damage? Or is it that somehow me spamming Fireball is NOT the max DPS I can be doing, and I tested this correctly?

Assel · 12/29/10, 4:36 AM

are you sure about the meta gem?

im loosing much of my EP ( not geting agility at all ) if im trying to get more blue gems then red ones to activate the meta gem.

and 3% more crit dmg... im actualy raid buffed at 25% crit