The new 30% threat reduction and precision change got patched in today on the PTR!

Gonna do some testing.

Edit: Nevermind, Blizzard decided it would be cute and let me actually log onto the PTR with an old build. Way to go!

If anyone can confirm this it would be excellent. For now I will recalculate as it seems logical.

EDIT: The new PTR build is up in the states, but there are still a few connection issues. The queue is also at a record low so I would copy now if you want to check out the threat reduction.

900-950 dps in Blasted Lands with S2/3 PVP Gear and S2 Sword (only BoM/Crusader), up to 1100 dps with rang 1 concecration and AV with all out.

Since people keep talking about using consecration in the dps cycle, i thought i'd do some testing on this ability to see exactly how it works to perhaps include it in the model. From the testing i conducted the mechanics seem fubar. Can someone please confirm this:-

1) When it comes to normal spell damage from gear, the min rank does not get the same 0.95 coefficient as the max rank. There is scaleing involved. However the extra damage caused is modified by things such as sanctity aura, crusade etc.

2) When it comes to spell damage from JotC there is no scaleing, and the 219 is multiplied by 0.95 coefficient even at min rank. However, the extra damage this generates is not modified by things such as sanctity aura, crusade etc.

You can see the modifiers effecting different types of spell damage by:-
A) Put on SpDam gear, dont judge mob, pop consecration then pop AW and see the ticks go up by 30%
B) dont wear SpDam gear but judge the mob, pop consecration then pop AW and you will see the ticks dont go up by 30%

When I tried this out with SoR, the increased damage from JotC was being effected by multipliers, but not consecration. So this leaves me with 2 questions.

1) Why does Jotc +spdamage not scale like spdam on gear when it comes to downranking
2) Why does The extra consecration damage from +dmg get damage modifiers applied to it, but not extra damage from jotc

This just seemed really weird to me, however i ran the tests multiple times and came to these same conclusions. Can anyone verify these conclusions? Cheers

I don't know if it's a bug (probably is), but on the PTR the General's Scaled Greaves have got +12 agility on top of the previous stats (nothing reduced).
I checked the Veteran's and they remained unchanged.

Edit: wow that was a really stupid thing to say, forgot about the enchant

Its the enchant that is now shown white.

A comment on this.

Many Marksmanship and Survival hunters don't do a straight Autoshot and Special shot rotation, which is what among hunters is refered to a 1:1 rotation. It's quite common to do a rotation where you do a special shot after every second Steady Shot., which is called a 1:1.5.

Example: Autoshot, Steady shot, Special Shot, Auto shot, Steady Shot

Assuming 0 latency, you can do this without losing time to autoshot clipping.

This means that instead of hitting with 4 shots every 5 seconds, you will hit 5 shots during the same time which should increase the gains of JoW.

I will go tonight and perform serie of tests, lets say 10 tests and see how it goes.

Thanks, and I went ahead and updated the numbers.

Anyone tried seal of blood in place of SoC?

It gives more mana in PVE since we are costantly take damage so healer must put on us some HOT giving us more mana to use our spells