Thread of Ultimate Stupidity - Page 1487

8-bit <3 · 01/05/11, 6:18 AM

Originally Posted by zannis

Has anyone been found to create, update and maintain an affliction thread for cataclysm?

Did a quick search of this thread to see if this had been asked, and apologize if I missed it.

As of now there is no such thread. I, myself, have been anxiously awaiting one. Hopefully with a bit more in depth information towards the proper uses of Dark Intent, though I feel I have a decent grasp on it already.

smoug · 01/05/11, 6:26 AM

Please delete and the two responses that followed.

nurofen · 01/05/11, 6:36 AM

Thanks for that I will try a rotation with AS and no KC tonight and see how it goes.

Schniepel · 01/05/11, 6:51 AM

It works like stated in the description. CoS does not refresh, Chimera does. The added duration is capped at some point though, i wasn't able to ever exceed 20 sec even when Bloodlust-spamming CoS in the Careful Aim phase.

• Wizeowel · 01/05/11, 6:51 AM

Does anyone have an explanation for the first tick of combustion being different to the remaining ticks? Here is a parse of my guildmate last night, which should illustrate this.
World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis

Plea · 01/05/11, 6:59 AM

Chimeara's eyes are limited to three of them. Jewelcrafting gives 81 int at best and so does every other profession. Ring enchants are 40 each, bs has 2 more gem slots, alchemy flasks give +80 and so on. Tailoring proc, also, used to have an average bonus in line with others.

Lucai · 01/05/11, 6:59 AM

Originally Posted by greatzar

Well, that saves you exactly one gcd for every for living bombs (42+ seconds). And you pay the price of one living bomb explosion for that gcd.
I still can't see, why such a minor gain considered important enough to reach first haste cap. Yes, i know, with current bugs and raid buffs this cap is easily reachable by anyone. I just don't think it's a "real" cap, I just don't see any significant change upon reaching it. You know, like "can cast 3 ab instead of 4, until buff from 2t10 expires" or "never ever miss with spells". Just 1.25 dpm increase for one spell and one free gcd once every 42 seconds (which vanishes then your haste goes further up).

You would actually gain a gcd (and lose 1 explosion) every 53.33 sec as you pass the 12.5% haste mark.

The gcd could be used to cast scorch which would be about 10k damage in blue gear, while you would lose the explosion which would hit for about 5k in the same gear. This would net you 5k damage every 53.33 sec or 93.7 dps just for going over the haste threshold. Of course this doesn't account for the mana saved by not casting the extra living bomb every 53.33 sec which could be used to change a scorch or 2 to a fireball.

Lucai · 01/05/11, 7:00 AM

Originally Posted by Wizeowel

Does anyone have an explanation for the first tick of combustion being different to the remaining ticks? Here is a parse of my guildmate last night, which should illustrate this.
World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis

Combustion does damage when it hits which is what you are seeing.

Lucai · 01/05/11, 7:05 AM

Originally Posted by smoug

With intellect being the strongest stat by far and it is the stat we should aggressively gem for.

Brilliant inferno ruby: 40 int. Is the normal intellect gem people would use, when that is used there are several examples where gemming pure intellect is the best way to go. There are examples shown in the fire mage thread for reference to examples where gemming for socket bonus is better than pure intellect.

Jewelcrafters have the opportunity to gem with: Brilliant Chimera's Eye 67 int. I have been looking over socket items, but have not yet found an item where it is not best to drop the socket bonus and just gem with 67 intellect. It will be even better when the Chaotic meta gem will be changed. If this is true, jewelcrafting will give a 27 int bonus for every socket available, which can add up to being one of the best proffesions overall.
If this is right then i think the proffesion section should be updated to include this.

You can only have up to three [Brilliant Chimera's Eye] in your gear at one time.

Bren · 01/05/11, 7:07 AM

Originally Posted by shannon6989

What are the best totems to place for healing?

This entirely depends on your raid/group composition.

You get the highest personal gain out of Flametongue, Wrath of Air and Mana Spring. But generally some, if not all, of those buffs will be provided by the group or you'll want Healing Stream down for the healing and resistance (through the glyph) or it might be better to buff your group because they benefit more.

Plea · 01/05/11, 7:23 AM

At Valiona&Theralion, cauterize doesn't always save you from blackout. Iceblock does.

ep4598 · 01/05/11, 8:02 AM

Originally Posted by Hinalover

a) I turned off Parry haste and adjusted the base swing speed of the boss to 2.5 so that Infected wounds is able to bring down that number to usual 2 seconds. As far as I know of, none of the first tier bosses parry haste. I can change that value if we do find out that one or more of the bosses parry haste.

Are you kidding me? I used 2 talent points for the boss beats me more frequently?

Well,It's 3 seconds usually. Pls change it.

shadowdruid · 01/05/11, 8:05 AM

i've read all the topics and used some tacticts from you guys , but after some serius testing i have a differrent way of healing.
maybe terribly wrong ! but it works for me.

ofc lb on the tank, but when the going gets tough i use regrowth for the haste buff. and spam HT. and wg.
when the going not gets tough i just mantain lb with nourish.
it realy works for me.
i have 110k mana and 2010 haste so with the haste buff HT is a 1.8 sec cast.
i think all i need is more spirit and i'm good.

ps sorry for the bad english

MacrosTheNaked · 01/05/11, 9:40 AM

Originally Posted by Knik

I've been putting together an offset for Kitty and Rawr is stating the optimal rotation includes running out, Feral Charge / Ravage!.
Is this the case at higher gear levels?
Is this only the case at 80%+ health?
Dummy testing has proven inconclusive for me. Ravage hits hard, but the overal dps doesn't seem any better.

in raids this seems a bit of an odd rotation, though you could theoretically use it to hit up one target for a full sequence of bleeds, then feral charge to another target and open up with ravage while your other target bleeds out...

Imo, feral charge (kitty) has more utility value in soloing stuff or in pvp, where stealth -> ravage -> rake -> maim -> run -> feral charge -> ravage is an immensely funny combination.

Bohno · 01/05/11, 9:46 AM

I've noticed that starfall is a good thing to use in your rotation and when you do, use it when you get lunar. That really boosted my dps a bit.