I am about to ding 70. (yay) As a tree, I was wondering what you all would suggest for gearing for entering Kara. If possible, name specific pieces and where the pieces are found. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks all.
Ahh, so because it was already green when I control-clicked it, it still thinks it is green as well as blue. Fair enough. I'll give it a go when I get back to work
I did comment about how beutiful your UI is Santera but it got deleted and I have been given a warning, why I have no idea.
It has been moved to the dungheap if you wish to view it. I am sure this post will get deleted by the Elitist forum mods also, cyas on better UI forums tbh!
The point I was reaching for was having a Snare or an Interrupt, even if they aren't as powerful as Hamstring, Crippling Poison, Kick, or Pummel, isn't going to replace those classes. If we had a JoJ capping movement speed at 75% for 6 seconds, it wouldn't be as powerful as Hamstring or Crippling Poison. If Hamstring reduced a target to 50% speed, JoJ would only be half as effective. If Hamstring reduced a Travel Form druid to 70% speed, JoJ would be a flat 5% more powerful, but still lasts half as long.
There are so many snares and interrupts in the Arena already, adding one more wouldn't change any strategies. Teams already play around the assumption that they're going to have to deal with them every time they enter the queue.
This post is made of win.
As my own personal note, if we ever get a hamstring ability i don't want it to be any worse then the rest of the slow effects out there. It should be a 50% slow - period.
question to the big end game raiding hunters regarding stats:
mainly regarding ArmorPen and Haste
I've come up with basically 2 sets of gear
one giving me:
2024 RAP
31.91% crit
931 ArmorPen
The other:
2050 RAP
30.2% crit
399 ArmorPen
143 Haste - 1.86s (im lookin make the shoulders of lightning reflexes- 37more haste but dropping other stats)
Question basically would be .. is one set superior to the other in terms of dps?
or results change based on the different fights ur in?
Sorry, but we don't care about your raid id and how a guild on your server might steal your bt id. Talk to this guild about this and as long as they still want to hijack your id just don't group with people from that guild. Problem solved.
I made a feral wish talent tree switching around a few trees to fit feral druid roles as a tank or a dps. War Tools :: Talent tree Feral Tree Wish Changes
Please remember that it's feral tree only and some icons are not same as in Beta talent icons.
I did some work on Feral (and relating Restoration) Talents - completely speculative. Design goals where:
- Allow to do tanking and DPS with all specs, but not at maximum efficiency
- Streamline Feral PvP related talents
- Enable different specs for different jobs
- Add choice but not too much
Being at a point where I don't have a lot of things left to purchase with badges, I'm trying to figure out which piece(s) to purchase next.
I'm trying to determine where a combat fists spec will fall in comparison to swords. There is some good food for thought in the article regarding sword combat builds and hybrids involving swords in some way.. is it assumed or a 'given' that fists are inferior to a combat swords build or can one shed some light on this?
Also if fists are inferior (not saying they are, again, just trying to understand),
if one's crit % is weighing in on the light side, would it be wise to switch over to fists for the 5% boost in crit? Or wiser to stick to swords?
I've been playing with the spreadsheets and various tools available on the web and have seen a few different results in experimenting, but I figured it'd be best to ask so that I may get some human insight as to how it all might work out in a practical sense.
My Guild is in TK and SSC right now. I switched to Frost from 2/48/11more out of boredom than anything else....along with being tired of our BM Hunters topping me on the meters. ;-) What's interesting is I too have found that I almost always top our other mages on fights like VR and Solarian and I can usually top the Hunters now also.
I know Lhivera has always been a strong proponent of Frost Raiding There's so much randomness in any encounter that no amount of mathcraft can foresee everything. I've become a believer that Frost can match Fire (at least at my guilds level of progression)
Should I then just stick with [Soul Cleaver] or maybe opt for a S2 Sword / Jin'Rohk? I also might be able to pick up a Felspine soon, so that's also an option for the future.
Human racial lowers my expertise cap -- see above. It is definitely 44 for humans.
As for the other poster who responded, "you're making a mistake" simply doesn't answer the question.
To repeat: I read this post and see that 44 is the expertise cap. I look at my tooltip and it says I have 26 expertise, with the shard equipped and along with two points in weapon expertise and my human racial.
This post claims the shard alone gets me to the expertise cap of 44, yet I only have 26.
Can anyone explain this with an intelligent response?
you are getting confused as to the difference between 'expertise' and 'expertise rating'
6.5% boss dodge = 26 expertise
2/2 weapon expertise gives 10 expertise, racial gives 5 expertise, needing 11 more.
1 expertise is approx 4 'expertise rating', therefore you need 44 'expertise rating' for a total of 26 expertise
Any opinions on what the best theoretical professions for rogue are going to be? Leatherworking seem to be getting some LW-only leg enchants in addition to BoP crartables, which would make it even stronger than today, so I guess it is a no-brainer. The skinning-bonus will also help dps, but so will enchanting, blacksmithing, alchemy, inscription, maybe even tailoring bonuses. My current herb/alch combo will be comparatively worse than today becase the herb-bonus is non-dps and others professions are getting buffed. So although it is a very nice moneymaker, I am considering switching. Any thoughts?
I think you might be wrong on herbalism being a weak profession in terms of having no DPS skill. While this does hold true, herbalists get Herbalism only items out of nodes, similar to the Fel Blossoms in BC. In WotLK, Fire Leaf drops from flowers, and it gives 400 AP for 10 seconds with a 60 second cooldown on the item. Also, since it isn't a potion, it doesn't fall under the potion sickness category, which means that it will provide an average 66.67 AP through fights. Furthermore, it provides a free heal (albeit, weak), and dead DPS does 0 DPS. The Mixology bonus of Alchemy provides 20-25% increased effect on flasks and elixirs that you can make. On the Flask of Endless Rage, which provides 180 AP for 2 hours, persists through death, the increased benefit is only 45 AP. This is of course assuming that Blizzard makes the ability reflect the tooltip, because from what I've read about Beta so far, Blizzard hasn't implemented this effect on flasks yet. Leatherworking still looks to be a dominant profession, even though drums are getting nerfed with the Tinnitus debuff, and they're now usable raid-wide. Since the WotLK leg armor kits are all personal use only, the non-leatherworkers are stuck with the Nethercobra armor kits. From what I've read, the latest armor kit provides 100 AP, and 36 Crit rating. This provides 5 more AP than the Mixology buff, as well as the 36 Crit rating. The highest skinning profession buff (Master of Anatomy) provides a passive 25 crit rating, which at current values is inferior to the Mixology buff. However, the most interesting one to me so far is Tailoring. There is a new Tailoring item called Swordguard Embroidery, which is usable only on your cloak, and provides 1000 Armor Penetration on some melee attacks. I don't know the proc rate of that, and I think it works similar to the Amani Charm of the Bloodletter, in that it procs and is then consumed by the attack, or if it lasts similar to WSC. I can't determine the exact value of this, because I don't have enough information on it. Blacksmithing provides no passive buffs as of yet, but from reading the tooltips (I haven't read anything on Beta Forums about this yet), Socket Bracer and Socket Gloves appears to allow socketing of your own only. This would allow an extra 40 Expertise/Agility/Hit/Haste or 280 Armor Penetration or whatever we would need to socket for (Since we don't know the weights of stats at 80 yet). Jewelcrafting provides an additional 49 Armor Penetration, 7 Agility, 7 Haste, 7 Hit, 7 Expertise, and 14 AP through the use of all the unique-equipped BoP gems. Engineering seems to be getting a few upgrades, but the profession remains mostly untouched, so it might provide the best in slot head again, but aside from that, the only thing it provides are glove upgrades, and the best I've seen is 340 Haste rating for 8 seconds, with an unknown cooldown length (Minimum 2 minutes from the tooltip). Thus, this seems inferior so far. Inscriptions for rogues has yet to be implemented as far as I have seen, so I can't determine the benefit of having an extra glyph. Aside from that, there appears to be a small DPS upgrade provided by Runic Blast (24-30 damage, unknown cooldown), which could have more powerful ranks or versions that haven't been implemented, but then again, it might not (Consumes an Ivory Ink, which is made from peacebloom, one of the starting herbs). Enchanting allows an additional 40 Haste or 80 AP from ring enchants. As of now, those are all of the professions that I have seen thus far. I won't make any judgments on the gear actually crafted by these professions until patterns from Leatherworking have been finalized, and again, I don't know what the weights will be at 80. However, the min/max professions as it appears now would probably be LW/BS, or LW/Jewelcrafting, or BS/Jewelcrafting, or possibly even something to do with Inscription or Enchanting, depending on stat allocation on gear. I'll make my final assessment when people far smarter than me with Beta keys can determine what stats at 80 will be the most valuable, and what stats we're seeing on rogue gear.
08/16/08, 1:08 AM
