You say that hit (and maybe expertise) are better to cap before going straight for STR. However, in your weightings, it shows that hit is inferior to STR still, and would therefore show that gaining hit is worse than gaining an equivalent amount of STR. I do understand the argument that hit and expertise are more important to cap before gemming/enchanting STR, but your weightings show otherwise. Maybe they need to be updated?

Exemplar's sheet does do stat weights, it just doesn't display them in the same way. If you run the graph, stats display at the top of the first sheet, giving you how much of each stat you need to be equivalent to 1 Str. To compare to Rawr / Redcape, take Rawr or Redcape's value for STR and divide that number by Exemplar's stat weighting to get an equivalency stat weighting that you can use to compare the three tools.

As a note, all 3 tools have relatively similar weightings now -- hit >> str > expertise below caps. Hit food should be listed, since you should use that instead of str food if you are significantly below cap.

Partial resists to consecration are unavoidable but also relatively uncommon; most full "resists" of ticks are misses due to not enough hit (not that hit is worth very much beyond melee hit cap).

ArPen is not buffed properly on the last version of the PTR, hopefully they fix it soon on live 3.1

I very much doubt ArPen will ever be something to consider for us, as we have too many spells that ignore it completely. If they buff it enough for it to matter to us, it would be redicilously overpowered for Warriors, unless they find some way to create a double dip situation (somehow affecting our spells).

Nice topic, easier for people to get updated without having to read 100+ pages. Hopefully, the owner will update the first post constantly as new information becomes available.

I don't think it would be that hard at all to give us more benefit from ArPen at all. Take a look at what they did to haste, only certain classes got an improved bonus from it. If the devs really wanted to they could just simply say paladins gain an extra 35% from ArPen instead of all the other classes who only gain 25% increase.

I don't mind it either I was just trying to point out that it wouldn't be too hard to give us more gain from it if the devs wanted to. The only problem with us only getting decent benefit from so few stats is that items will be imperfectly itemized or will be stacked with non-diverse, capped stats. Haste has improved quite a bit though as it is almost up there with crit now in terms of dps value.

Nice write up Arikah!

Regarding the Engineering glove enchants. Are these at least 'competitive' with the straight AP enchant? i.e. Will I be loosing a lot of DPS if I go with rockets or haste because I'd rather not drop Engineering and I'd like to think it's actually usefull for something? I vaguely recall reading in the previous thread that the haste enchant is at least a viable alternative, is this still the case?

According to Rawr, the new incarnation of the Hand Mounted Pyro Rocket is worth around 15 more dps than the Hyperspeed Accelerators, and nearly 30 more than Crusher. That said, using rawr, if I drop down to crusher and add ring enchants (baseline "other" profession bonus) I gain a total of 13dps over Engineering bonuses. Up to you if that's "competitive".

Edit: It should be noted that Hyperspeed Acclerators will scale with gear, though I don't think they will surpass the Rocket until the next round of ilvls (post Ulduar).

New version of the Bellator's Spreadsheet has been released.

Available: Here or Here

It's set for 3.1 Live. Other tweaks, improvements, and bug fixes as expected. Gear is only as up to date as I'm aware, which includes all the Str itemization changes which were listed on MMO-Champion.

any chance at getting a list of say top 3 best in slot pieces? I use a mac and the "mac option" for RAWR generally hates me.

Also I've been playing around with lootrank.com and while the documentation for that site is fairly decent, the numbers always seem a bit off for which item is better than another. I would appreciate any help that can be provided.

Thanks!

EDIT: I know it's still early yet in this thread's life.

There's still a lot of loot that has yet to be discovered, if you're talking about ulduar loot. As for existing loot, try to make due with what you have, but get hit/expertise capped.

So pretty much I should change out as many str gems as i can to hit/expertise until they're both capped?

I'm a JC/BS so it seems like the easiest way to make this transition.