Got thunderforged spark of zandalar last night, and was wondering whether to get rid of lei shens or Darkmist, both hc and fully upgraded

Atm i'm using lei shen's with it seeing as i'm not too big of a fan of the haste proc on darkmist, but was wondering if anyone had any input on it, cheers!

5 hits or 8 seconds in this case would already be long enough that you are in no danger of dying and you could swap some stamina into mastery if you wanted - but you don't have to. If you can survive that long without any healing or any ability usage at all you are as safe as you can be so you are basically worrying about situations you should have no problems in to begin with.

The only time there could be something as "stacking too much stamina" is when it would actively hurt your survivability (maybe if there was a boss that exclusively did max health % based damage like Baleroc or something ridiculous).

From what I have seen in ToT so far, there are quite a few bosses with stacking debuffs that make you take increased damage from their special. Having enough stamina to take x stacks without CDing through them is actually quite nice and keep in mind that stamina also allows you take more damage before you Death Strike for a bigger Blood Shield.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying mastery is bad but all these casted physical damage hits like Talon Rake do put us at a disadvantage since we cannot always ensure we have CDs up for them (they happen too often) or have a Blood Shield up in advance so having a bigger health pool to actually soak the hit does help.

I haven't been playing a whole lot lately; the last time I was really waist deep in the game was probably t12. And it just recently occurred to me that perhaps my understanding of some of mechanics have changed, specifically, regarding pets.

Temporary pets now scale dynamically, right? They no longer take snapshots? Or is that only some pets, or am I completely mistaken? So specifically waiting for all my procs might not always be the best idea if say I currently have Heroism?

I was just curious if anyone knew if Anti-Magic Zone for a dk will prevent the Ionization from Heroic Jin'rokh from being applied?

Hello.
Havent seen any discussion about it so here is the question:
Is it still possible to make gargoyle perfoming extra attack, as it was in Cata?
If so then what is the current haste breakpoint for it, given that we have frenzy? And also what is the breakpoint without frenzy?

Unholy Frenzy increases melee haste, and gary scales with spell haste, so unholy frenzy does not change gary's cast speed or number of hits.

The on-going discussion on gary's haste breakpoints can be found here, in the unholy thread.

Hey guys! I've got a question about festerblight and pestilence.

Am I right saying that pestilence doesn't copy diseases applied earlier, instead applying new ones, based on your stats at that very moment of using pestilence?

I aslo wander: why should I use as many festering strikes as possible at the start of the fight, less during it.

Thanks a lot for your theorycrafting! :>

So question, how much of a difference is there between festerblight and normal rotation if you are smart about it and do your best to reapply diseases with plague strike when everything is lined up properly

Thx a lot, I did check it but din't find the answer . It snapshots my current stats, right? Not that very stats of dots I applied earlier on the 1st target?

It very, very huge! Since I got my feather I increased my damage thousandfold, and actually traditional unholy doesn't differ much.

I also think about changing my reforging priority since now it's more than 40% of my damage = magical one. Haste - mastery - crit should be profitable now, what do you think about it?

But what about Death coil + partly Scourge strike + Garg + Blood plague + Soul reaper + Death and decay sometimes or boil? Some dk's say mastery is much more reliable with festerblight, especially in short fights. Aslo noticing 4th part of T15 set bonus.

By the way: an amont of loot with crit stat is scarce, while you can get 8000+ mastery by reforging. Don't you think this priority might depend on loot table?