I have question about EP evaluation - I want to use the spreadsheet to make Pawn scale (to roughly appraise item values).
So I assumed that it shall work ok when I save my current DPS in spreadsheet and then alter every each stat in one of gems in gear sheet and see the difference. I was adding 20 to the stat (to step over minor thresholds like in expertise and Agi/Str, and because gems come in +20 stat values), then I divided the difference by the ~7,09DPS (difference made by adding +20 AP). Only for expertise I pushed -20 instead of +20, because I’m almost at cap.
Basically I went to Gear!B18 till Gear!K18 cells, entered “20” in first cell, wrote down the difference, undid the change and moved to next cell. I know that this is not too accurate, but shall estimate EP scale pretty good, doesn’t it?
The problem is, that I got completely different values than in “Pocket Guide” article. I was evaluating combat fist/sword 7/51/13 with
[Greed]/
[Omen of Ruin] with my last Naxx-10 raid buffs, 1s5r rotation with glyphs of Rupture and of Slice. (Yes I know that Omen is a dagger and build is sword, but in fact there is no good +dps equivalents for evaluation). My gear is mostly T6-like slowly exchanged for quests/heroic rares and total DPS is 2169 with given buffs.
So my values were about
:
1 Str = 1.1 AP, 1 Agi = 1.79 AP, 1 Hit = 1.27 (I’m between yellow and poison caps), 1 Crit = 1.18, 1 Exp = 1.06, 1 Haste = 1.01 AP, 1 ArP = 0.90 AP
I also evaluated some changes on weapons, maintaining constant either speed or dps:
1 MH DPS = 7.57 AP, 1 OH DPS = 2.91 AP, 2.7 MH speed on Greed (+0.1) = 16.1 AP, 1.6 OH speed on Omen (+0.1) = -55,0 AP. – But speed changes are too delicate matter as it may change rotation for keeping Slice on.
Those values varied depending on available (de)buffs, but still are quite different from “Pocket Guide” article. What bothers me, is AP value – assuming that it is always 2x other stats on gems or food, it clearly is best stat.
I don’t want to depreciate calculations in first article and I humbly assume that I’m doing something wrong if my values differ so much, but I’d really like to know what. First I guessed that I’m really too undergeared and that made the difference between my calculations and EJ’s. But then – I believe I’m quite average rogue at the moment, when not every guild got enough 80s to start 25ppl raids. May I ask you, what do you think of my idea of EP weight calculation? I'm not asking about hand-holding, only if it is correct way to calculate EPs.