Does it work both ways or does Heroic Strike always take precedence?

This is mine, used Roth Ui as base and made some little modifications to suit my own playing.


Idle:


Target(casting), ToT, Focus and Focus' Target

Combat in party

Combat in Raid

PowerAuras in action
showing No aspect on, no Trueshot Aura on, no Serpent Sting, no Hunter's Mark on the target, Pet's health under 44% and Mend Pet

I have a question relative to weapon speed for the offhand slot and normalization.

Mainhand:[Shadow's Edge]
Offhand:[Item not found!]

Assuming the above weapons do you think swapping these around would net less DPS when using specials at 3.6 speeds even when considering the damage increase ? If someone could post the weapon normalization calculation I'd be happy to figure this out myself.
Additionally is there a risk of reduced rage generation using a 3.7 weapon vs a 3.6 in my offhand ?

Thanks for your input.

The speed isn't really as big of a problem as losing 6 expertise from your Orc racial. Assuming you are around the cap, gearing for that extra expertise is what makes it a DPS loss to swap those two weapons, unless you are running with more expertise than you need currently it's only a minor upgrade to make that switch. You shouldn't be that far above the dodge cap anyway. Otherwise, if you have to make up for the expertise loss by switching another piece out, in many cases with ICC gear that's a loss in itself because the Axe gives us that bonus without the expense of losing any other stat.

I understand siming and testing are still underway between sub frost and sub blood. Is it safe to assume Kahorie's sims for sub frost and sub blood would judge which is best for my toon? I know gear makes the difference and i am not lucky enough to be sitting on BiS, more like "All currently known loot, sans 25m heroic loot and Shadowmourne" minus that green little heroic


For me the sims are showing sub blood (for my toon) as best.

I appreciate all the work that goes into this forum. As a long time reader and first poster please keep up the great work.

edit: just want to be sure kah's is nearly spot on and i didnt miss anything in the some past 100 pages of posts.

Lets put the racial's aside for a moment and view this in a broader manner. If we did not lose the 6 expertise skill what's the impact and general consensus on equipping slower weapon speeds in our offhands.

So I used to be a survival hunter until about a week ago when i gemmed arp and went marks. I am currently at 1408 arp w/ food and elixr. My dps seems to have improved marginally. I miss all that CRIT i used to have! But MM is growing on me as I learn to move when i have to and manage my CD's. As I continiue to upgrade gear and get my 4p T10, i was wondering what to gem now since I am at the ARP cap. I have looked at spreadsheets, and feel like agi is the way to go. Check out my armory. If you have another other tips/ suggestions pleze Holler at me.

Not sure what you are getting at here. Even with the faster speed the weapon damage on heroic Cryptmaker is greater than Shadow's Edge. Your specials will still hit harder with h-Cryptmaker. But unless you have another piece of gear that has expertise on it coupled with a higher SEP value than a piece you are currently wearing, it would be difficult to say for certain if the weapon damage increase on Cryptmaker will offset the expertise loss. My gut says no, but this is a spreadsheet issue.

Hey guys . I have a quastion for u. Which combo of those 4 trinkets is the best ?

[Phylactery of the Nameless Lich]
[Dislodged Foreign Object]
[Muradin's Spyglass]
[Reign of the Dead]

My stats (with out totems) :
SP : 3199
Haste : 1032
Crit : 38,82

Armory :
The World of Warcraft Armory - Kauzer @ Emeriss - Profile

P.S I have normal versions of those trinkets but for some reason links are for heroic versions.

well vanity pets.i ve more than 10k gold with farming white kitten from SW and selling it 100-250g in ah and 300-800g in neutral ah,it costs 56silver and is buyable every 2-4hrs.also black tabby cat makes nice gold(rare drops in ambermill)but its not as easy to get.black tabby is easily 1k++ in neutral ah.

also stratholme instance is very good for gold making+you get tons of runecloth which u can change for rep or sell 5-8g/stack.i counted that approximately 200g/run with all boe blues/greens and all other stuff and ofcourse cherry on the top is the possibility to get rivendare´s mount.

and ofcourse mining but i guess this does not count as its profession.

When does an mm switch to using steady shot over arcane shot(passive arp wise) and when does a mm hunter dswitch from agi to arp gems