Fugee - The BiS list on the front is made without profession buffs as I don't assume every cat to be Blacksmith/JC.

There are some target everyone wants to achieve:

ArP Hardcap
Hit/Expertise Cap
Crit Softcap

You can't reach all of them without JC. Obviously it's much easier, if you have 42 extra ArP through JC.

The proc rate is wrong. It is supposed to be 1ppm, but Rawr lists it at 10%.

I'm not sure if the arp gems/food/gear was rebalanced on the front page after Oathbinder was added.

With Oathbinder, I managed to find a BiS-ish list of gear that swapped out the ToGC cape for the Gunship cape, and only 11 (instead of the listed 13) fractured cardinal rubies. People with either or both of JC and BS will be able to make further refinements (probably more haste and agility to push up to the soft crit cap). This was also done with Bone Colossus instead of Ashen Band (with the edited proc rate), tho' it's not a huge DPS difference.

1407 arp, 234 hit, 136 expertise, 75.5% (in rawr 2.3.11) crit

I can confirm this. 1504 is the total ArP from the BiS listed on the front page. Not only is your ArP calculation off, your hit is off as well. The gearset listed on the front page has 177 hit rating, not 161 like you stated.. Using Rawr, the DPS from the BiS list on the front page comes to 14527.64. That's with all possible gem bonuses reached.

My idea for a simple fix to that, without changing the gear itself, was to simply replace 4 of the ArP gems with more hit rating, in order to hit the cap. As you are already at the crit cap with that gearset, Pure hit and Str/hit gems become the next logical choice. I added in 2 [Rigid King's Amber] and 3 [Etched Ametrine] and came out to a total of 14787.17 with the following stats

247/263 Hit rating
126/132 Expertise
1404/1400 ArP
76.12% Crit

This is before professions as well.


As I was plugging in Fugee's list, Rawr decided to crash on me right before I replaced the last gem. However, before that his list only came out to 14500ish. I replaced his Dragon's Eyes with Cardinal Rubys just on the principle of calculating it without professions.

As far as I could tell, the BiS list posted on the front page is correct with the exception of a few gemming issues. There may be different combinations of yellow gems that may work better instead of the extra hit rating, but everything with Agility on it was valued fairly low after that 76% crit.

At that level of gear, I think it's going to be how much ArP is on your gear, as you're probably not at the point of worrying about the soft crit cap. It looks like you started gemming pure ArP pretty early. It's probably not worth gemming back, though, just focus on getting more gear with ArP on it (T10 being the obvious way). You should really only be softcapped until you get a better trinket, so don't push over 722 with gems.

Also make sure you have all the buffs you expect to have in a raid ticked, as that will affect stat values pretty significantly.

1. You have the wrong enchants on your boots and gloves, you want agi on both with your current gear.
2. Arp is your best stat up till the soft cap, you probably just didn't have all the buffs enabled.

I'm not sure what I did differently but now it shows that I am gemmed correctly with the exception of my gloves. I swapped out a gem for the socket bonus and to bring me right at 722 armor pen with arm pen food so none is wasted. I just got my 264 headpiece and next will probably be shoulders assuming I can finally get my damn pants from VoA. Anyways, thanks for the help!

Edit: Also swapped my enchants, thanks Ephram.

Figured it was obvious, tear goes into the weapon or belt to get the meta requirements.

Hm, you are completely right. The stat summary below my two BiS lists were totally off. I don't really know how that could happen.

However, I fixed them and the gems too.


As you can see, I used a lot of [Rigid King's Amber] in my HM BiS list to come closer to the Hitcap.
RAWR actually rates Agility and Haste both a little bit higher than Hit. What are your opinions on this?


Also remember, that the BiS lists I used on the opening post are before profession and without heroic presence.

Ah, I see. I completely missed out on the fact that the belt can have an extra socket via the readily available BS buckle. My apologies I looked through the list and saw all the available gem slots, blues included, taken by other gems and had completely overlooked the buckle. Whups!

@Tukutanu
Can you be a bit more specific, what video? Are you sure it wasn't just a combination of Dash and FC?

I don't think there is any way that you can use FC twice in a row. And if there is, it is most certainly an exploit.