Thread of Ultimate Stupidity - Page 883

masteen · 02/04/10, 10:36 AM

For my Unholy DPS offspec, would I be better served buying the ilvl 232 T9 head and shoulder to get the 4 piece set bonus, or would buying the ilvl 245 hat and shoulders net me more DPS? Please note no access to Frost Embs, as those are reserved for upgrading my tank set.

Saelie EU · 02/04/10, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by masteen

For my Unholy DPS offspec, would I be better served buying the ilvl 232 T9 head and shoulder to get the 4 piece set bonus, or would buying the ilvl 245 hat and shoulders net me more DPS? Please note no access to Frost Embs, as those are reserved for upgrading my tank set.

The 4 piece set bonus is really nice for Unholy, especially for AOE- I would say it would be more beneficial getting the other two set pieces.

Longblade24 · 02/04/10, 10:40 AM

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Lican56 · 02/04/10, 11:15 AM

So ive been a long time reader and decided to finally ask a question,

Ive been running endgame with my dk since woltk opened, and following propper dps changes which i think no one has had more changes in spec then us.

neways ill get to my question when reading what pres to be in people always say blood, And before i read this i was in unholy dps is a little better in blood, but single target unholy is close,

what do you guys do, switch on the fly

also any comments on my gear would be appriciated TY

**FLAME ON!**

Mafinke · 02/04/10, 11:50 AM

So would you say the new PVP weps would be better then any of the Weps that are lower then ilvl 264 at least?

kasc · 02/04/10, 11:50 AM

Hey, as you can probably tell I'm pretty new to the forum :P

I play as an arcane mage in a semi-hardcore guild; one my main griefs is that I think I should be doing more DPS than I actually am and also think this is down to reading conflicting 'best' rotations. Some guides say ABx4 MBAM is best, but other suggest that x3 is best (ignoring mana concerns at this point). Another thing I should probably work on is having a higher uptime, I find I don't use blink as much as I could to move around.

I also feel that generally, my DPS is low for my gear; here's a World of Logs report from a recent raid I did well (for me) on. World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis This was without 4 set T10 that I now have, instead I had T9 245 legs and helm.

If anyone could enlighten me on the whole ABx3 or ABx4 thing though, that would be awesome, cheers!

Kaedi · 02/04/10, 12:12 PM

Hello,

I remember reading something in this thread that even if you fall below hit cap, Str and ArP are still above gemming hit. I want to replace my Pyrite Infuser with a Needle-Encrusted Scorpion but I fall to 183 hit (5.58%, or 6.58% with a draenei racial). Is this an acceptable hit until I can get some other gear with hit or should I do something else? Thanks.

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rutiene · 02/04/10, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Zakalwe

You should be able to use the time conditional to control the opening sequence:

actions+=/shadow_bolt,time<=1
actions+=/haunt
actions+=/corruption
etc..

Or, for two shadow bolts:

actions+=/shadow_bolt,time<=3
actions+=/haunt
actions+=/corruption
etc..

Sometimes, I really wish SimCraft had better documentation. Thank-you for the insight.

dadvocate09 · 02/04/10, 1:01 PM

Originally Posted by Kaedi

Hello,

I remember reading something in this thread that even if you fall below hit cap, Str and ArP are still above gemming hit. I want to replace my Pyrite Infuser with a Needle-Encrusted Scorpion but I fall to 183 hit (5.58%, or 6.58% with a draenei racial). Is this an acceptable hit until I can get some other gear with hit or should I do something else? Thanks.

Missing strikes that use runes messes up your rotation, as you have to re-cast the strike that missed. That means you have to a) notice it misses immediately and re-use the same strike, or b) suffer the consequences of the miss, whether it's only having 1 disease up for a rotation or missing out on a heart strike or death strike.

Either way, when you mess up your rune rotation and have to go back and re-use the same rune, you either give up that rune for a full 10s rune cooldown or you jack up your rotation until you can use Empowered Rune Weapon to reset them all. It's a hassle that the stat weights don't reflect. I'd advise you to simplify your life and your rotation by capping Hit.

Phatkid0069 · 02/04/10, 1:33 PM

I have a corruption question.

When corruption is reset by Everlasting Affliction does it recheck the current stats of the character and adjust accordingly?

For Example.

Haunt is cast with the Life Tap buff

10 seconds later
Dying Curse procs as well as Everlasting Affliction. Does that new corruption get the dying curse buff or does it only keep the Life Tap buff?

If it doesn't wouldn't it be advantageous to recast corruption during certain phases or when you get a bonus spellpower proc? Just wondering....Nothing I read said we should be doing that.

kasc · 02/04/10, 1:46 PM

I have been trying to convince the holy priests in my guild to throw up a shield on me during fights, however sometimes they don't due to mana issues, apparently its a big mana drain. My guild does not have a disc priest as a main spec, so i've have no had a good chance to try it out.

Rawr atleast seems to rate this quite highly, but where it generates it's values is a mystery to me, it's very situational. I have it in my spec, I am tempted to swap it for Student of the Mind - still undecided; this thread is exactly what I've been looking for =P

Ossein · 02/04/10, 1:52 PM

Regarding Sunder Armor and Armor Pen

Sunder Armor reduces armor, and Armor Pen ignores it. How do these interact? This is more of a general question, than specifically about my DPS/play or anything. Say we have a boss with 100 armor, and Sunder reduces it by 25. A warrior with 100% ignore armor would now be ignoring 75 armor, rather than 100. How does this not lead to a DPS decrease(since you are technically ignoring less armor). I'm probably missing something here.

Edit: clarity.

Quiks · 02/04/10, 1:52 PM

forgive me if this has been posted before, but when we're at the arp hard cap does sunder do anything for us anymore?
The fact that they don't stack up additively would make me believe this to be true.

My understanding of sunder and arp
boss has 10,000 armor. 20% sunder = boss at 8,000 armor, then Arp is calculated as a percentage of what armor is left. If this is correct, does that mean that 100% arp value negates any bonus WE particularly get from sunder?
I guess I just need clarification is all. I'm not going to stop sundering for the raid if it happens to work that way, hah.

Oliria · 02/04/10, 2:19 PM

We finally downed Blood Queen today, and I did the quest as described. Ran in and got hit by blood-mirror, that gave me the debuff Gushing wound. I got bitten as the first after random bite target. During the fight I bit 3 people (obviously) and checked I had 3 stacks of Gushing wound. However I did not complete the quest after slaying her, noone died during the encounter.

I have submitted a ticket to blizzard, but I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this?