I'm currently prioritizing sta > exp=hit > mastery > parry > dodge (but not gemming for stamina as gems give so little of it, and mastery is worse than parry and dodge in fights where shield block isn't used). I'm not really sure how much each ">" is worth, though, and all in all it's just what my gut tells me. Still hoping for proper modeling and simulation to get a bit better idea of the stat weights. Check out my gear if you want to see epics my decisions on gemming (ignore the weapon chain, I'm just being cheap).

Has anyone messed with a rotation when your lightning shield is capped, shocks, elemental blast, lava burst, fire elemental, ascendance, earth elemental on CD and searing totem already down?

In the provided situation, is it a DPS gain to:
-refresh Searing Totem when it's already up (and how much of the duration has to be left and how long does it have to be up afterwards, and not replaced by fire elemental/destroyed by boss mechanics)?
-use unleash elements?

Also, if you just cast lightning bolts, it is a DPS gain if you increase the distance between the boss and you, due to longer travel time, giving you the opportunity to hit earth shock, before lightning bolts hit and potentially waste rolling thunder charges.

Sorry for quoting myself but I'm really looking for a solution... because... at the moment I'm playing undead and I wanna maximum my dps, so I want to swap the race but I dont know which (horde). I guess orc is the best for now because of the fist drops... and then there are trolls with haste also pandarians with 300agi stock. Cant decide!

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to be honest i'm not sure why there debates on stat priority's for ele since they only thing that have changed for us with mop is that we dont have our totem bars an we now have a few more ability's in our spell books. so i dont know why we're debating stat priority's since our ability's still benefit in the same ways as they did in cata we just need more of them as would any toon thats lvl has increased.

hit/spirit(to cap 15%)>intl>haste(to flame shock tick cap or reduced gcd)>mastery>crit

if i remember right dot cliping was removed an refreshing your dots only refresh's the duration an doesn't reset the time between the ticks. i may be mistaken on this so dont quote me on it.

What should we gem in gear? When I enter my simcraft weights into ask mr robot it has me pick a mixture of gems like

Haste/Strength Hit/Strength and Strength.

I remember in cata, you were supposed to gem straight strength and only gem otherwise if the bonus allowed for it.
Do the same rules still apply and is askmrrobot being stupid?





Blinding light is immune on mounted characters, cant knock them out of the air =/

The only two situations where pvp set is viable, imo, (in 10 man anyways) are a) no monk healer b) 2 heal comp. The thing is, the way monks do their uber hps is they just blanket heal. We had a kill once where our monk had 63% overheal. On Amber-Shaper Un'sok he made rank #1 (just checked, he still is, with 70473 hps). I don't see any use for me doing the same thing. Most of the time i just tank heal with aoe bursts.

And btw, thx Blizz for not having any phisical raid saves -_-. I had a blast on most of the HoF bosses. They could've at least give DA a glyph that changes it to phisical. jeeez....

Which will be better Shin`ka LFR(with 500str gem) or Starshatter normal?

Actually Crit sims to me for normalized 0.51.

Without those 5% id prefer flat Crit gems. Taking the Int from Wizardry into account, Id prefer flat secondary from 0.525 on.

So the value of a Potent Vermilion Onyx for me is 80 x 1.05 (wizardry) + 160 x 0.51 = 165.6

A Brilliant Primordial Ruby would net 160 x 1.05 = 168 for my current gear.


Seeing this I'd prefer pure Int.

Unless my thoughts werent totally wrong, it might be worth mentioning, that gemming pure Int is better up to a special point.

you are right Fierss. im an idiot. whoops. well that makes more sense to me now.

Thanks, I hadn't been calculating the none block avoidance into my equation.

Yes. You can find tables with approximate EP values for the trinkets in the spec-specific thread opening posts: The Art of Combat or Assassination from the Mists . Generally speaking, it's not very competitive with raid drops (or the darkmoon card) but does outperform the 5-man drops.