Greetings all,

In my personal experience gemming for agility has worked very well for me. In my Feral Tanking Spec I usually average well over 2k Dps while maintaining an incredible amount of threat generation. It takes a well geared lock or mage trying their hardest to pull aggro from me on a single target boss. Basically that never happens. I haven't ever considered stamina gems for the fact that my dodge rating is 38.22% with only Gift of The Wild and my Armor is 28,691. These stats increase significantly with raid buffs and can get my dodge to nearly 50% and Armor to 34,000. Please "bear" in mind (slight pun intented) that this is only my personal experience and never to be substituted for all the hard work and numbers crunching that the pro's do here. With that in mind, if anyone at all could point me to a link regarding stat priority that would be great. Thank you all and remember: You pay to play so enjoy it anyway. Deadforlife 80 Dual Spec, Feral Tank/Feral Dps: Drenden Server

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working heroic toc now yay

Vespasian i looked over your parse for your lord jraxxus kill and your gear setup.

I am still unsure about the haste build. Here is a parse from one of our jraxxus kills

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this isn't a heroic kill but im not sure how much that would make a difference, switching to the portals probably brings your dps down a bit, but nothing to significant i wouldn't think.

my point is you out gear me, and im gemmed ap. The parses seem to go against your findings.

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I tried that...the samething still happens

As someone who has yet to see a Runestone drop, I am in favour of seeing more testing done without it (or grim toll), when it comes to balancing arp and agi.

Hey all

Been reading through the posts and i may have missed it but do i still gem for Arp now it has been nerfed in 3.2.2 ?

My stats : Hit 311 , Crit 32.75 , exp 15 , Ap 4007

My arp is 606, with 10% for BS and 6% for two T9 items that gives me 59,3%. I dont have trinkets that proc arp. Should i carry on gemming arp till 100% cap or should i gem str?

Thankyou

Thanks for the update.

Thank you to all who make this the most informative location to research classes.

My question is relatively simple. When is the best time to take advantage of a MBarr proc?

I've been running a consistent rotation of: ABlastx4AMiss, even if MBarr procs after my first ABlast cast or procs from my prior AMiss, in other words, I ignore MBarr until I get ABlastx4 up on the mob.

Is there a more efficient/effective way to go? Or... should I Amiss immediately any time MBarr is active, regardless of ABlast stacks?

Also, I've found it possible to continue ABlast spamming until MBarr procs, so long as you're efficient using MGs, MPs, and evo. Is this the max dps output option, ABlast spam continuously until MBarr (though less mana efficient)? Or is it better to use another spell after ABlast spam x4 or x5 if MBarr does not proc?

Seriously please read the other posts. I just explained it. Your fight length was 247 seconds vs his 395 seconds... that's an incredibly huge and significant difference. You have 16% uptime on bloodlust vs his 9.6%. That's like saying I can gem for spirit and post an XT normal fight against his XT hard fight and say that spirit>all. No, just no.

If it can be trust to Rawr, then Darkmoon Death is the easiest option to get. The AH is your friend. But you can also get Bandit's Insignia from Sapphiron/Naxx.

Install Rawr, then you do not have to guess anymore, and you see most of the options available for every slot of your toon.

@Leg:

I have difficulties to following your arguments. I thought SS is used to build up RP, and not to dump it. You must must have mixed up something.

Do you have any hard number or simulations, that confirm your assumption about more SS lead to more crit hit and that leads to higher DpS?

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Is the combat spreadsheet updated for the ArP nerf?

The short(not simple) answer is that Kavan already answered this earlier here.

Optimal use of Mbarr procs depend on mana reserves, fight mechanics that increase/decrease DPS for X amount of time, fight mechanics that might prevent chain casting, etc.

Has anyone done any testing to see if Incanter's Absorption is worth having? I have a feeling it's only good for gimmick fights or if you have a disc priest constantly throwing shields on you. I guess on twins it should almost always be up because you are absorbing the damage from whatever color you are.

I personally won't take it because you have to actually be hit and last i checked standing in the fire is bad. To me, it seems like something fun to have but it's not good in enough fights to make it worth while.

The beta sheets have had a setting to enable the 3.2.2 ArP conversion rate for a while now. Check the "Settings" tab.

Got it, thanks

Pretty sure everyone is tired of the ArP discussion but just wanting to know if it has been determined whether or not gemming for ArP is worthwhile, i've read all the post and most of which are just well i think this and i think that. Wondering if anyone has proven yet or not its practicality. I have runestone and a passive ArP of like 372, i could easily gem to the cap but not sure how viable it is.

93 pages....../sigh.

Is it possible to get a good solo leveling spec for a lvl 66 Mage? I've had this fella mothballed for a bit and am dusting him off for a run to 80.

Gracias.

Short answer: Put everything in frost, its VERY hard to do it wrong really.

Long answer: Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft