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Old 09/07/11, 1:49 PM   #76
Bonemage
Von Kaiser
 
Tauren Druid
 
Balnazzar
Originally Posted by Tilora View Post

So my question to you: what am I doing wrong in said fight, or what can I improve?
I'd look at the parses you are comping to; a lot of top guilds rely on passive cleave to take down the adds, or just let ferals sit on the boss due to our weakness in switching to short lived adds. You’re doing ~20% of your total damage to spirits and will never compete with a feral allowed to sit on the boss.

Weak areas in your parse:
Savage Roar up time of 60% is low, 90% is more typical on the fight.
Rake up time of 67% is low, even when going to adds you should be able to switch back to Domo for 1 GCD to keep rake up.
Rip up time of 49% is also low.
Bleed debuff up time; Mangle (59%) + Trauma (11%) = 70%, is extremely bad.

It looks like you could really use a bleed/debuff monitor.

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Old 09/07/11, 1:53 PM   #77
Ilmatar
Piston Honda
 
Worgen Druid
 
Feathermoon
Originally Posted by Bonemage View Post
It looks like you could really use a bleed/debuff monitor.
I am a fan of both TidyPlates (for multi-dotting adds) and EventHorizon. There are others, YMMV.

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Old 09/08/11, 10:32 AM   #78
ZiaSK
Glass Joe
 
Human Warlock
 
Dalvengyr
Kind of related to the uptime discussion up above.

Is there some kind of Haste sweet spot for energy regen that allows you to maintain SR and Rip at 100% uptime on bosses? I am having a hard time building to 5cp Rip, then 5cp SRs, and then having enough energy to build up to a second 5cp Rip before the first one fades. This is outside of Berserk.

I suppose this would be dependent on Crit for double cp gains. Should i be using a lower cp SR?

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Old 09/08/11, 11:22 AM   #79
Duilliath
Great Tiger
 
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There's very little reason to use a 5cp SR. In general, you should be fine with 1-3 points. The talent boost is static and as such you're really not getting that much out of additional combo points in terms of additional length on SR when compared to what the first point is giving you. You might well need a second (possibly gaining two more cps from critting) combo point to sustain everything, depending on your gear/play.

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Old 09/08/11, 11:45 AM   #80
a civilian
Piston Honda
 
Worgen Druid
 
Sargeras
High CP roars tend to be preferable if you can maintain rip and roar uptime either way because if the combo points would only be spent on ferocious bite (or worse, wasted), then 1.47 energy is more valuable than 0.2 combo points (each converting to 1 second of savage roar time) so it's preferable to spend combo points instead of energy. But if the combo points are needed to maintain rip uptime then they are certainly more valuable and a low CP roar should be used.

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Old 09/14/11, 5:58 PM   #81
Lurlus
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Undead Mage
 
Twilight's Hammer (EU)
I've got a question about the whole stam vs agi gemming. I'll only be running HC Dungeons, at least to start with, what should I go for then?

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Old 09/15/11, 9:22 AM   #82
Xenoborg
Von Kaiser
 
Tauren Druid
 
Illidan
Get to ~150k health buffed and then go agility after that. If you are solo queuing you probably have enough health from luck of the draw to never need to gem stam.

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Old 09/22/11, 11:59 PM   #83
jclement30
Glass Joe
 
Night Elf Priest
 
Gilneas
I keep seeing posters listing Ravage in the kitty rotation. Is this a mistake, or are feral kitties somehow getting out of combat to prowl and then hitting Ravage?

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Old 09/23/11, 12:27 AM   #84
Whistles
Piston Honda
 
Gnome Rogue
 
Staghelm
Originally Posted by jclement30 View Post
I keep seeing posters listing Ravage in the kitty rotation. Is this a mistake, or are feral kitties somehow getting out of combat to prowl and then hitting Ravage?
Stampede removes the stealth requirement for Ravage after you Feral Charge.

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Old 09/24/11, 8:44 PM   #85
Jon31494
Glass Joe
 
Tauren Druid
 
Dragonblight
I'm a feral dps and currently I am using UH and Fluid Death, and I just hit revered with Avengers of Hyjal. So what I'm asking, I guess is should I replace UH with Ancient Petrified Seed? I can't seem to find any information on UH since the nerf. Thanks in advance!

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Old 09/25/11, 5:37 PM   #86
Molov
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Tauren Druid
 
Anachronos (EU)
It's simple, Tia's Grace is better than UH (source: mew simulations) and Ancient Petrified Seed is by far better than UH because it gives our best stats and the On-Use cd is pretty low. And it fits perfectly with Tiger's Fury.

If you are engieneer you also can use the trinket + TF, then use TF + gloves to maximize your bleeds damages. So it's pretty much better than UH.

Edit: Maybe because of our stuff difference. I'm in 359 gear mostly and S9 R1 weapon and you are in 378 mostly with a 378 pve weapon, so the UH's proc is maybe more important with your gear than mine. I didn't believe it neither, but my mew simulations said that TG is ~300DPS better than UH last time i tried.

Edit2: I've just done a few other simulations, TG is, for me, superior to UH for 490 DPS. The only reason i see between our results is the gear difference. And maybe glyphs, i didn't look them on your armory.

DPS with TG : 15 771.
DPS with UH : 15 280.

I'd say that better is the gear, better is UH compared to TG then.

Last edited by Molov : 09/28/11 at 5:43 PM.

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Old 09/26/11, 9:14 PM   #87
Jon31494
Glass Joe
 
Tauren Druid
 
Dragonblight
I just ran mew sims and lost ~100 dps by using Tia's Grace in UH's place. This claim that TG is better than UH is false.

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Old 10/06/11, 7:12 AM   #88
Ligga24
Glass Joe
 
Tauren Druid
 
Kilrogg
Is there a hidden CD on Savage Defense? I have noticed in many fights while tanking I am critting yet it doesn't seem like I am getting the absorbtion shield. The possibility occured to me that the shield is simultaneously proc'ing while I am receiving damage equal or greater to it's absorbtion value. Clarification on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Old 10/06/11, 8:24 AM   #89
Aymuhdroowud
Glass Joe
 
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Tauren Druid
 
Stormscale
Originally Posted by Ligga24 View Post
Is there a hidden CD on Savage Defense? I have noticed in many fights while tanking I am critting yet it doesn't seem like I am getting the absorbtion shield. The possibility occured to me that the shield is simultaneously proc'ing while I am receiving damage equal or greater to it's absorbtion value. Clarification on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Are you taking into account that Savage Defense has a 50% proc chance? It won't create a shield on every crit.

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Old 10/07/11, 2:30 PM   #90
kalbear
Bald Bull
 
Tauren Druid
 
Balnazzar
The easiest way to demonstrate that Savage Defense does not have an internal CD is to go out to an older dungeon (preferably with a lot of trash) and grab a lot of mobs and swipe/thrash. With the high crit rate against lower level mobs you should be seeing at least one SD proc each swipe or thrash.

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