At what point in a 10 man raid is it ever worth not being Demo and going Destro/Affly instead?

On many DS-HC fights, I see Destro as performing very well, with Bane for Morchok's other half, Bane when swapping to adds on Yor'Sahj/Warlord etc.

In fact the only fight that seem's solidly in Demo's favour is Ultrax. (and possibly spine, but we won't be doing this HC for a little while in my group).


My raid setup, caster wise, has myself, a Shadowpriest (that offspecs to disc for some fights), a Mage and Healers.

How much is that extra 4% spell power worth as opposed to the potentially better damage offered by Destro on the aforementioned fights, and in a 10-man situation, when, if at all, would it be recommended to drop the Demo lock altogether in favour of better damage offered by Destro/Affliction?

Not to mention Nether Prot seeming very worth it also on many fights.

once u need to gather the 60 clusters , do they still have a 100% drop chance per boss ? and if yes , is it normal or hc kills ?

Hello, umm i know this might sound like a very noob question to most of you but i was wondering which of these is better:

i have 2 397 Experiment Slicer
and 1 390 Gur'talak
so i was wondering which is the best combination between these and which one should go oh and which mh.
also if i had 2 390 Gur'talak would the best combination change? thank you in advance to anyone that can answer this

put the gurthalak in the mh and the slicer in the oh

I'm not certain if this is the right place to ask, but I have a question about rawr. Every time that I try to optimize on my mage, rawr tells me that downgrading from 2/4 t13 2set (one LFR and one normal) and getting rid of some 397 offset shoulders, swapping in my old t11 gear (2 of the pieces are normal, and 1 is heroic) for the 4set. Rawr seems to think that this is nearly a 2k dps upgrade for me, but I'm not entirely sold on that. Fire is a somewhat hard spec to test gearing options with, since even with massively long training dummy sessions, RNG can still give you some very different results.

Basically, my question is: does rawr have some improper handling of mage set bonuses, or is the roughly 5% haste that the t11 4set gives me really that much better than extra int and offstats?

My mage can be found here: Jerichó @ Illidan - Game - World of Warcraft

For a full layout of the stat differences between the two sets, WITH the t11 set, I LOSE 20 crit rating, I lose 200 mastery, I lose 100 static haste, and the 10X50 haste from the t13 2set, and I lose 500 spellpower. I gain the 5% crit on pyro, (pyro is roughly 15% of my damage, so this is an overall DPS gain of about .5%). I also gain the 10% haste, which only applies to fireball. So, I get a 5.6% haste increase on fireball, which is 35% of my damage, working out to roughly a 2% damage increase.

I also posted this in the SV thread but thought it was also relevant here for a femaledwarf.com update...


Patch 4.3.2 on Test Realms

Survival

* Lock and Load no longer affects Arcane Shots.

Marksmanship

* Bombardment now lasts 5 secs instead of affecting your next multi shot only.


For SV, using ES-AS-ES-AS-ES when LnL procs should be the highest DPS rotation if you have the focus.

I believe the change to Bombardment for MM is just a tooltip change.

First off, hello, i have been a long time "stalker" of this thread as im a hobby-soloist myself, altho not at all as hardcore as many of you people here.

So i saw this the other day and thought it was a sort-of good idea to make a better place to put all the kills and discussions etc, so i went a made a minor website for the purpose. (And yes i am aware that the "graphics" are pretty horrible :P But im a coder not an artist lol)

URL REMOVED BY MOD

This is a quick first make of the site, and it does not have a dedicated forum as of now, as im also little busy with school stuff atm. But you can discuss on each and every single boss page, aswell as claim kills etc.

Hope you like it and wanna use it.

Has anyone done calculations to determine if the 403 gurthalak is better or worse than the 410 experimental? I am curious if the proc outweighs the topend increase.

According to SimCraft (using my current gear) the 410 Experimental Slicer beats Gurthalak normal (403) by about 1.5-2 k dps.

Hi,simcraft for arms warrior is done rly well.. I dont mean there is everythin wrong, but there are rly alot of thinks that are.. For example its showing that i have to do 37k dps on my charr and im normaly doin on ultraxion 43+ . u cant watch just that.. I tested almost everythin on arms durin 4.3 and i can say, that mastery is rly mutch better with 390+ gear (it doesn't matter if u haven't T13 or uve 2-piece or 4-peice)... When uve this lvl of gear u should go for max mastery as second stat.. About lower gear: when u get enought rage on every encounter without usin BS(to getting rage cap) and HS (to avoiding rage cap) u should never go for mastery.. I dont think, that when u've 380 gear ull have problems with rage in this case, so u still should go for mastery.. 2 piece for amrs isn't so usefull, but it's not useless.. now i use hs without IR just when my deadly calm is up, or when im wasting rage before using deadly calm.. In any other case its wastin rage. Hope this helped u..

thats not, cus when u use CS before ms, u can do 2x ms to one cs debuff.. (CS debuff - 6sec, MS cs- 4.5sc).