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01/01/09, 2:30 PM
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#1626
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Glass Joe
Draenei Death Knight
Lothar
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Weapon Enchants
I have seen alot of discussion about what spec DW might be best. What I havent seen (or have just missed and sorry if I have) is what are the best 2 weapon enchants and is it consistant with each spec or does the best weapon enchant combo change with wichever DW spec you choose?
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01/01/09, 2:37 PM
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#1627
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Glass Joe
Tauren Death Knight
Emeriss (EU)
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I've spent hours testing the 32/39 with fast/fast, slow/fast, blood/unholy presence - and I haven't been able to hit anywhere close to the numbers that everyone else seems to be putting up.
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So what was the best combo? Fast/fast or slow/fast? Blood/unholy presence?
I just specced this 0/32/39 to test out the dps compared to my usual unholy build, but on a dummie i do 400-500 more dps. Might be just the icy talon which you don't have in unholy, but you do get the 20% from shammy. It seems promising, but i only have 1 dps 1h weap, therefore i'm using a 1h tank weapon in my OH.
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01/01/09, 5:17 PM
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#1628
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Glass Joe
Night Elf Warrior
Azjol-Nerub
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Man, i really wish they didn't remove the swing time loss off of slam. It used to be really fun and hard to do a slam rotation. I was awesome at doing that and timing it perfectley. Now its meh.
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01/01/09, 6:42 PM
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#1629
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Banned
Orc Death Knight
Detheroc
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I have finally took the time to log into the PTR and test out blood tanking. I'm about to say that blood will be my new tank spec but I am having trouble figuring out what my rotation is as a tank. I'm also curious as to where my points are best spent. This may have been answered a few pages back, sorry if they have.
Then I have to decide on glyphs... I suppose this has all been discussed pages ago but I don't see to much.
Last edited by Griefknight : 01/01/09 at 6:54 PM.
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01/01/09, 6:43 PM
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#1630
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Glass Joe
Human Death Knight
Chamber of Aspects (EU)
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Hey, i'm new around, unfortunately i didn't had time to read everything on the forum, so: my build
Few questions:
1. Is haste important for DW? More precise: should i drop the 3 points in [Virulence] or maybe the 3 in [Outbreak] and put 5 points in [Icy Talons]? Or is better to drop the [Icy talons] (and the 2 in [Black Ice]) and put the points in UH another talent?
2. Rune of Fallen crusader on both weaps?
3. Is OH importan to be a very fast weapon or i should choose a weapon with better dps and stats against a faster one?
Example: [Fang of Truth] or [Furious Saronite Beatstick]
Thanks! 
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01/01/09, 7:31 PM
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#1631
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Von Kaiser
Human Death Knight
Anvilmar
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Ok i will go back and see what i can find. ty
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01/01/09, 7:40 PM
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#1632
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Piston Honda
Night Elf Druid
Dragonmaw
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Originally Posted by astateofmind
Hey, i'm new around, unfortunately i didn't had time to read anythingon the forum
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Your post edited for inaccuracy.
Read this thread to find answers to your questions and to find out why your build is terrible.
You have come to the wrong place if you expect us to do your work for you.
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01/01/09, 7:53 PM
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#1633
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Glass Joe
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I use death coil also when i have runic power it add alot of dps during what ever fight you are doing
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01/01/09, 9:53 PM
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#1634
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Glass Joe
Undead Warlock
Bleeding Hollow
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Hey guys.. wish I could make a new thread about this, but I am on "post probation" since I am a new account. I have been reading elitistjerks for over a year and only now find a need to make a new post.
I have been trying various specs out and have found the 41/30 to be the most decent thus far after trying pure demo/pure destro/and pure affliction specs, I have not tried the 2/13/56 spec that people seem to rave about. My problem is that I lack sufficent crititcal strike at this time so really benifit from the 10% that you pickup from the 41/30 and love the 15% damage bonus of fire when CoA procs the buff.. my rotation I do is CoA/immo/incinerate until immo needs to be refreshed then rinse and repeat..
I stay away from laying curruption due to the mana cost and also the cost of the GCD effectivly making it better to cast immo/inc spam.
My question is this: I know that various specs are very gear dependant and here is where I currently stand on gear: The World of Warcraft Armory
I have 28.2% crit, so 33% on fire spells and 35% when i equip my firestone. My spellpower with the 41 in demo gives gets me to 2100 when fel armor is up with a demon out.
I am pulling close to 2500 single target dps, my question is I have seen people here claiming 4k dps to 5k dps single target dps. So my question is am I doing something wrong is the other specs really that better? I have tried the different specs and did not get near the dps I do now with 41/30 my gear has improved since those days but I know that 10% crit difference is making the difference with the 100% crit dps bonus that you get from bane. Without the extra 10% I would only crit out of every 3 or 4 casts, where with my current 35% crit I crit every 2/3 casts, with the norm being every second cast.
So with the gear that I have does anyone think I would benifit from another spec and what would the rotation be?
Thank you for any input you can provide.
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01/01/09, 10:58 PM
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#1635
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Banned
Blood Elf Warlock
Mazrigos (EU)
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About glyphs... Some suggest Immolate/CoA/SL is the best while others go with corruption instead of SL. Which is the best?
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01/02/09, 12:05 AM
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#1636
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Glass Joe
Human Death Knight
Stormscale
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Originally Posted by Consider
Rune Strike is when you parry or dodge an enemy attack, not when the enemy parries or dodges one of your attacks. Thus, expertise is completely irrelevant to it.
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For some reason I thought it was the other way around. My bad. Sheesh so must hostility.
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01/02/09, 3:43 AM
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#1637
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Glass Joe
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Originally Posted by Arawethion
I'm in the same boat--it can be hard to shed hit until you get the right drops. He has both Leggings of the Wanton Spellcaster and Dying Curse, so he needs a pretty specific set of top gear to get back down to cap.
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screw hit stats;(
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01/02/09, 8:14 AM
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#1638
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Glass Joe
Human Warlock
Bleeding Hollow
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Qupe, what unit frame is that you're using?
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01/02/09, 9:19 AM
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#1640
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Glass Joe
Troll Hunter
Wyrmrest Accord
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Hey guys, long time reader, first time poster.
Just had a couple questions, but first off i'd like to say how appreciative i am that you take your time to do this.
These are gonna sounds pretty noobish, because i really suck with number crunching when it involves pets.
1.) The general consensus i get is that cats and scorpids will still be better post nerf, but out of those two, which is just flat out better?
2.) How much of a DPS reduction are BM hunters looking at after the nerf? I put out ~2.8k in naxx overall atm, hitting about 2.2 on bosses, and up to 6k on trash (<3 volley)
3.) I see how most of your pets are putting at least half of your DPS out, but mine only puts out ~900 where i put out 1900-2200. I'm currently using a cat.
Thanks =)
PS, my gear really isn't that great, my guild is pretty much stuck in 10 man naxx atm, with a few 25 mans with another guild.
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01/02/09, 12:30 PM
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#1641
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Glass Joe
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Originally Posted by Aarian
I have been raiding as affliction for a while, and im starting to wonder if the 0/30/40 +1 spec can even compete with 55/0/16.. I have yet to see a meter where a demo/destro warlock has been close to an affliction lock.. I'd really like to play as some type of destro if it isn't going to gimp my dps, just looking for some insentive
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i run 0/31/41 and never get beat by other similarly geared locks on any fight EXCEPT patchwork and heigan.
IMO affliction is like communism. both are great in theory not in practice.
i play on a pvp server so i also RAPE affliction locks out in the world. There is nothing like a soulfire gank 
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01/02/09, 12:54 PM
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#1642
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Piston Honda
Blood Elf Paladin
Bonechewer
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Originally Posted by Snowy
The discussion here was about only having one HS tank -- i.e. 2 tanking Patchwerk, not 3. In that case, you have to set things up so that melee don't get hit by HS, because the 3rd person on the threat list will be an option if healing isn't done corrrectly.
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Ah, I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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01/02/09, 2:20 PM
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#1644
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Glass Joe
Blood Elf Paladin
Mal'Ganis
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I know this is really basic to say, but make sure divine plea is used every minute and arcane torrent is used often as well.
Now, since I'm [sadly] a perfectionist, I was wondering about maximizing AP from professions. I've read on here that JC/BS is the best combination for adding DPS, but I'm mostly curious about how much better it is than enchanting/[jc or bs]. Are there any stats posted on this?
And lastly, how do these 2 stack up for future patches? Will you be able to make a decent amount of gold with JC in upcoming patches? I only ask because I'm pretty confident with my gold making skills using enchanting. If the AP increase is significant I'd probably change anyways though.
Thanks in advance!
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01/02/09, 2:26 PM
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#1645
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Glass Joe
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Since I installed WOTLK, my WoW has been totally out of commission (I'm a Comcast customer, no doubt). Sooo, I'm only 73. I've had little to no desire to read up on a game I can't play - but I am moving this week and will have new interwebz, so I've put together this MM spec - what do you guys think?
I was thinking of taking the extra points from efficiency and moving them into Go For the Throat, or imp arcane... or maybe keeping the efficiency points and taking the points out of survival.
Any thoughts?
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
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01/02/09, 2:42 PM
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#1646
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Glass Joe
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Originally Posted by IWEARGOGGLES
I know this is really basic to say, but make sure divine plea is used every minute and arcane torrent is used often as well.
Now, since I'm [sadly] a perfectionist, I was wondering about maximizing AP from professions. I've read on here that JC/BS is the best combination for adding DPS, but I'm mostly curious about how much better it is than enchanting/[jc or bs]. Are there any stats posted on this?
And lastly, how do these 2 stack up for future patches? Will you be able to make a decent amount of gold with JC in upcoming patches? I only ask because I'm pretty confident with my gold making skills using enchanting. If the AP increase is significant I'd probably change anyways though.
Thanks in advance!
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check out the very first post on this thread under the [Professions] heading
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01/02/09, 3:45 PM
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#1647
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Von Kaiser
Tauren Shaman
Mazrigos (EU)
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I did not know that. Thanks for the heads up!
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01/02/09, 4:30 PM
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#1648
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Glass Joe
Undead Priest
Tichondrius
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So I have just started to arena this season and was trying to figure out which spec seems to be the way to go. I was really interested in the new idea of stacking crit which i liked cause it would allow me to go shadow if i ever wanted to also.
The crit seems like "eh"-ish at first look but when i take into consideration that my twos partner is a Boomkin i feel like that makes it even more valuable to stack crit.
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
This is my current build right now. I would just like suggestions or ideas of what you guys think.
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01/02/09, 4:37 PM
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#1649
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Glass Joe
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Pyrinaa If it works for other aoes im going to assume it will work for most/all aoes
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01/02/09, 6:16 PM
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#1650
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Glass Joe
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Wondering if I could get some input on a possible spec I will be raiding with in 25 man content. I have just hit the haste cap and planned on going mm, but survival looks like it would be a lot of fun, so we built a hybrid.
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
It includes Trueshot which is one of the staples of mm + some fun AP increase talents down in survival. Do you guys think this would be viable?
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