Theralion's Mirror - Item - World of Warcraft

Am I wrong or is this trinket's proc potentially worthless, literally, to only Balance druids? As in, what happens if the "proc" occurs right when I leave my current eclipse state and going to the next? Yes, the Int is nice, but thats it??

So I could loose about half, or if not, the full uptime on the proc because of the way our mastery works? I know for sure that almost, if not all, other classes's mastery is always "doing" something all the time even if its minor or a chance to proc something. Our mastery in the other hand, goes useless at certain times.

Yes I know we are getting buffed to our mastery stat, but not re-worked, aka, we still have that "dead zone" which mastery goes to 0% useful after we leave an Eclipse state. Will trinkets like Theralion's Mirror and future BiS trinkets for us in future Tiers be worthless because of our "dead zone"? For those who have it, how has this trinket been treating you?

Kinda sad, such a pretty trinket too...

Considering raging blow and mastery are both getting buffed and HS is getting nerfed,I think it's reasonable to point out that SMF is going to be terrible next patch unless something extreme happens to the patchnotes the following weeks.

So i decided to head over to the PTR today and ran a few ~5 million damage runs on the dummy.



As you can see heroic strike damage is very low compared to my other abilities and bloodthirst and raging blow has overtaken my melee damage. Is it possible that due to these changes once we have enough hit to maintain a consistent rotation that crit would be more valuable?

I decided to try it out but i didnt have alot of hit to convert to crit. Before i was at about 19% hit and 15.5% crit and after i was at 15% hit and 18% crit.




On average i felt i was doing more damage with the extra crit. I usually heroic strike when i have 60+ rage but with less hit it seemed better to wait till i had about 70 rage before i would heroic strike.

It does seem that not all the proposed changes for 4.0.6 are on the PTR. Recklessness and Inner Rage have not changed at all so the slight reversion of the Heroic Strike nerf might not be implemented as well..

Hey guys, Im a Blood DK and my friends recommended me to stack avoidance (especially parry). They told me to get 40% avoidance but that just seems impossible since parry and dodge have diminishing returns now. I'm at 27.5% avoidance and 153k HP in blood presence. Anyone knows what a good idea is to cap your avoidance at? Or just keep stacking it as long as bosses don't 3shot you? Thanks in advance

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Obstinate @ Turalyon - Game - World of Warcraft

Agility is worth at least 3x more than crit, mastery and (usually) haste per femaledwarf. There's no reason to gem straight crit ever, and the wrath agi enchants currently outclass the cata crit ones.

I think you guys are trying to debunk the presence switching with the wrong approach. DW frost uses FP because it doesn't have enough globals to fill in UP. So if you were to start in UP there would come a time where you would be below 32 RP and have all runes on CD. This is when you would want to change to FP; at the worst you would lose up to 31 RP. You would not want to change to FP simply after 4 globals, you still the runic power resource available for FS. Depending on RNG you can acquire enough globals for UP for much longer than 4 seconds. I don't have the math with me but you can't compare 4 seconds + 1 to 6 seconds. It would be more like 30 seconds + 1 to 45 seconds.

This idea came to me a long time ago in the 4.0 patch in WotLK and I sort of gave up on it. It seemed that when I did transition from UP to FP, since I was left with no resources while leaving UP, and continuing DPS in FP seemed utterly slow and sluggish. I think UP just sucks up too many resources for DW frost, but adding ERW to mix could help, but to whether use ERW while still in UP or to use it after the switch to FP in order to jump start your FP rotation, I really don't know which is better.

[edit] I'm pretty sure the GCD for switching presences is actually 1 second, so this would favor starting in UP slightly more than what you thought before, since you only lose 1 second for switching presences.

What slight reversion to heroic strike?

Also, would you mind doing a similar test(doesn't have to be 4) on live, so we can get a comparative dps increase? I'm guessing ~10% for TG Fury, would love to see if I'm right. It also looks like 3/3 DW will be better than 3/3 incite. Heck, if there were more AE important encounters, I might even get B&T.

This is far more in line with the results I'm getting. Also, the GCD for presences seems to be 1 second.

Question about reforging:

Will I really see that big of a net increase if I am reforging everything into Mastery post spell-hit cap? Currently, I've just been leaving expertise and haste alone, only reforging all crit into mastery (and some hit to spell cap). Does it really make all that much of a difference, considering its still useful to swing faster and get as close to expertise capped as possible?

The only reason for using Plague Strike / Blood Plague is for additional threat. But if you are having threat as a DK Tank, you are doing it wrong. Other than Frost Fever / BB, you should only be using DS / HS / RS.

The reason most people come here is to min-max to get the best out of their character, so if that is your interest... than yes, I would reforge. If you have 300 expertise and 700 haste on your gear, you would be around 1049 EP for those stats. If you reforge 40% of those stats over to mastery, you are looking at 1117 EP for a net gain of 68 EP - which can be between 50-70 dps increase.