Intellect is better than critical strike rating point for point.

Hi there fellow shamans.
I'm feeling kinda desperate past 2 days, testing out some stuff and doing very low damage on a dummy. Often, it's really wierd how much DPS you make and often I don't go over 15k.

Most of my gear is heroic (raid).
9000 spell damage with searing totem, 2040 haste and 13.39 mastery (26% chance).

I've tried to reforge some gear and I had 2200 haste rating which is really insane (reforging some mastery) and I've noticed a huge loss in DPS (at least on a dummy).

My question is, what is the normal mastery rating at my level of raiding (we are doing heroic naferian). It's really disappointing that I get up to 2200 haste rating and lose the DPS instead of gaining a lot. What might be wrong ?

Best wishes,
Alex

I have been searching all through the site and the web but cant seem to find any preraid 346 BiS list, including rep rewards and bs stuff out there.

Does anyone have one, or have some info to share with me?

could u explain me why agi/mastery yellow gem should be better then the other combos on yellow socket (if it is, so not as it was explained in the compendium above)? I've seen other hunters doin' it, tho i prefer agi/crit... is there any particular reason to do it?

There are valid points in regards to Glyph choice. But if your raid healing is sufficient and you do not take extra damage surviving the unavoidable damage you take should not be enough of an issue to add the glyph. I have (Ho) sac macro'd with Divine Protection where adds melee's creates a significant amount of damage and Non-glyph Divine Protection helps to mitigate any incoming damage in regards to when I most commonly use it. DP, Divinity and LoD glyphs are far better in efficiency and I always use DP with AW to allow me to still heal some during the duration of DP. Divinity is just so useful to have and although it may not be up on some attempts overall its up and always grateful for that mana I generate from using it.

On another point I primarily focused on healing tanks and I find myself having a difficult time pulling Higher HPS the best I can pull so far is around 1500 HPS and the avg is around 11-1200 HPS.

My rotation currently is DL,DL,HS,DL,WOG. The extra DL is in there because of the delay on the holy power generation. I do deviate based on phase of a boss and what is currently going on but for the most part this is what I try to stick too.

Anyone else have some input on what I can do to boost my HPS I feel like I am over thinking this but I keep on seeing other paladins lesser geared than I pulling much higher HPS and I cannot find any additional information to get to that point.

the tricks is more for fights like neefarion, valiona and theralion, or fights that you will have a second until you reach the boss so your gcd will be fresh by the time you get to the boss and are able to do anything. It all depends on your group/guild. People yell stop after a count and stuff like this so i would rather use it right before I run in. This is not what I use for tricksing a dps just tank. But like for chimaeron i tricks right before we talk to robot(which is about 10+sec before we pull). It all depends on you situation.

that's in block rating already.

The OP suggest the following...
Agi/Crit (best)
Agi/Haste
Agi/Mastery

These are all options that are suited to plug into a yellow socket to achieve a respectable socket bonus (typically an Agi one)

However, keep in mind that once you are hit capped your goal is too get as much AGI as possible...followed by as much Crit as possible. Agi/crit is my suggestion.

If you are using the CS glyph and are struggling to attain the haste necessary to cleanly fit 5xSS and 2xAS into your rotation, then going Agi/Haste to achieve the socket bonus is probably not a bad idea. However, if you're scraping the bottom of the barrel that much to get haste I would probably suggest re-assessing your optimal rotation.

All of this information is, of course, extrapolated from the OP.

Is it worth using Retaliation as a defensive cooldown on melee heavy encounters?In theory isnt it 100% parry for 12 secs which could make it ok to even stand in Battle stance for the whole duration?(of course going back to Defensive stance would be optimal,especially since Stance dancing is off the global cooldowns now).

According to the generic ilevel 372 profiles from simulationcraft.org, an arcane mage's best secondary stat (once hit capped) is haste. I have been looking for a reason why this is true outside of simulation, but I cannot find one. My simple reasoning suggests that haste will simply make burn phases shorter and conservation phases longer. I would have guessed that crit is better due to the mana return from the tier 1 fire talent as well as being more efficient through doing more damage. Why is haste good for arcane?

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