Thread of Ultimate Stupidity - Page 613

catbeef · 10/24/09, 2:22 AM

I wish the worms poison (or melee's legion flames [should this really be dumped directly behind the boss anyway?]) was not so painful

Really seems to eat down a pet fast.

My pet has died once on faction champions, seemed the whole lot of them targeted him at the same time D:

Superalpaca · 10/24/09, 2:36 AM

Originally Posted by Sephon

Drastically incorrect. You should never apply rake when you do not have Savage Roar up. Both rake and rip check for Savage Roar on application, and never again throughout the duration of the bleeds.

Incorrect, only Savage Roar is checked on application of the bleed and at no other time of the bleed's duration. Mangle is checked for on every single tick of the bleed.

Gualdhar · 10/24/09, 3:55 AM

hmmm, guess I'm gonna have to start messing with simcraft then, though i was trying to avoid it. thanks for the info.

Otterpop · 10/24/09, 5:19 AM

It's an Arcane talent, in the Arcane tree, whose tooltip says "Arcane spells". So no, it does not apply to anything but Arcane spells.

Lilyana · 10/24/09, 5:40 AM

Originally Posted by Ardeaf

The only reason I can see them switching to AP gems is if they are crit capped. Other than that, it sounds pretty stupid.

AP is the BM hunter's choice of gemming.

Kevinally · 10/24/09, 5:46 AM

Originally Posted by KaoS-FiLL

I really hope this question hasn't been asked already but, here is the tooltip for the Arcane talent [Arcane Focus]

Increases your chance to hit and reduces the mana cost of your Arcane spells by 1%/2%/3%.

The question is, does the hit rating effect apply to all spell schools and attacks, or strictly to Arcane spells?

Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by Otterpop

It's an Arcane talent, in the Arcane tree, whose tooltip says "Arcane spells". So no, it does not apply to anything but Arcane spells.

To add to the (correct) explanation, and alternatively, the frost hit talent affects all spell schools.

wbuisman · 10/24/09, 6:26 AM

Dear Paladins,

I have a rather 'simple' question for ye'all today. Unbuffed I'm having 3633 AP, as you can also see on my armory, in my retribution off-spec. I do not find my gear that worthless but as I look up other armory pages I see lots of 5000 AP~ unbuffed Paladins! For the first time I'm going to ToC as a DPS (I normally heal everything) and I was wondering if my 3633 unbuffed AP was able to handle it. Do ye'all think I'd be able to pull off at least 3,500 DPS raid buffed ;-)? I've never DPS'd before, did some readings beforehand, and I don't want to completely fail there.. Since I was only able to pull off 3,300 DPS on a dummy..

WoW-Heroes.com says I can do it, do you think I can?

Thanks in advance.

Yours sincerely,

Cicil.

PS: I'll be buying the [Conqueror's Aegis Battleplate] today and the [Furious Gladiator's Scaled Helm] on Wednesday. Both will be gemmed with +20 STR gems and the +21 AGI / 3% Crit Meta gem.

Mystics · 10/24/09, 7:29 AM

Originally Posted by Laren

Uncheck Grid > Status > Health > Unit health > Use class color.

Thank you!

Talon · 10/24/09, 8:55 AM

Posted in the wrong Thread.

Abadrogue · 10/24/09, 8:57 AM

How much arpen will i need for ruptureless combat?

Althor · 10/24/09, 9:39 AM

Originally Posted by Zakalwe

That's an interesting solution. Does anyone know of any other mechanism in the game that works like this? I'm wondering how exactly they go about calculating how many more times it should tick. I suppose the most straightforward way would be to multiply the original number of ticks (6) by your haste, but past experience shows blizzard doesn't always choose the most straightforward way of doing things

Simple way to test it would be to get to 1093 haste rating and see if corruption ticks 8 times after being refreshed by haunt.

I don't know about the hybrid nature of it (where it functions differently before refresh and after), but in terms of the individual mechanics:

The initial part sounds like it works the same as Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch.

The refreshed part sounds like it works the same Devouring Plague.

If it's true that it works the same as Devouring Plague then the actual duration won't be 18 seconds (although UI calls would return 18).

Devouring Plague currently works like this (on PTR):

num_ticks = round( 8 * ( 1 + haste% ) )

duration = num_ticks * 3.0 / ( 1 + haste% )

So for example with 0% haste, num_ticks = 8, duration = 24, just like on Live.

With 6.125% haste:

num_ticks = round( 8 * 1.06125 ) = round( 8.49 ) == 8.
duration = 8 * 3.0 / 1.06125 = 22.61 seconds.

With 6.25% haste:

num_ticks = round( 8 * 1.0625 ) = round( 8.50 ) == 9.
duration = 9 * 3.0 / 1.0625 = 25.41 seconds.

As mentioned, the UI function calls are buggy and they return 24.0 as the duration but checking the combat logs it's easy enough to see that the actual duration matches this formula.

It would seem likely that a refreshed Corruption functions the same way, but testing would be needed to confirm.

Cromedan · 10/24/09, 9:58 AM

Well im kinda new for cat dps, most of the time im restoration, then i would like to know

Right now i dont have a hit cap, and i m using [Pyrite Infuser], becuase of this i was planning to replace it for a badge(emblem) one but i dont know wich one to take, the haste or the ap one

[Shard of the Crystal Heart] or [Mark of Supremacy]

i have never tested the up time of pyrite infuse
taking it as a always proc out of CD it would be a 10s under a 45s = 0.22
and the other trinkets would be at 20 under 120(2min) = 0.167

thx

druidi · 10/24/09, 11:29 AM

I've been raiding as moonkin for sometime and used 2pcs of T8 set (hands+legs). Should I consider upgrading them to 2pcs of T9 (lvl232)? Is the 2pcs of T9 must have? I've got the lvl245 idol. This is my big question now. I've enough emblems to do this.

I don't think I will be getting any Trophys soon, since moonkin is not my main spec and I've had horrible luck with Trophys for sometime. It would take a lot of time for me to get 2 Trophys.

I've got normal LVL245 head (ony25) and chest (toc25), also LV232 shoulders (toc10). Should I consider switching these to T9 lvl232 so I'd get 2 x T8 + 2 X t9? My other armor gear is lvl219-245. I don't have that good trinkets, but neck/rings are quite ok.

I've got 5pcs of T8 (T8 - T8.5) so I can switch them rather easy, but I'd loose a lot of haste/spellpower/hit rating by using them.

Niteeyes · 10/24/09, 11:54 AM

i go into heroics healing as a druid resto and get caught up healing the tank and the whole group. is this normal or should there be an off healer for the rest of the group? I do pretty good in healing however i cannot concentrate on thehole party and get failing the tank.

rbryinc · 10/24/09, 12:08 PM

Hi, I hope this is where to post this, if not I am sorry. I have posted the link to my armory and my question is if anyone can tell me why I am still only doing about 3.8 DPS. With this gear is that about right or am I doing something very wrong, thanks.
[url="http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorgonnash&n=Biggieshorty"]