Originally Posted by sleepcontrol
Also, has anyone looked into the professions? Is Tailoring still overpowered compared to everything else?
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Something I'm not certain about at this point is Engineering. At my current gear, the hand-mounted pyro rocket alone adds about 52 dps (it gains on spell crit, with my gear, it has 45% crit chance), which equals about 39 spellpower according to Bink's spreadsheet. Projecting this crit rate to the new rockets, I'll be getting 61 dps from the new boosted pyro (btw., yes, the tooltip is still wrong. It can be launched once every 45 seconds, not once every minute), equaling roughly 46 spellpower. Again, fairly close to all new professions (which end up at 48). EXCEPT, at this point, I haven't counted back enchant boost (about 9 spellpower gain over current bis 23 haste) or bombs (about 22 dps = 16.78 spellpower) yet.
Thus, in my honest opinion, Engineering is our "sleeping beauty" here. It can be very powerful when used properly, but a player has to invest into it (through using abilities or paying for bomb mats). Personally I've been using Engineering for about a month now and it works great, constantly giving me predictable dps boost (about 1.5% from pyro rocket, about 0.7% from bombs, latter number can cross 1% if there's targets to AoE; note, however, that I'm usually not chaining bombs, so 1% could be a rule on single target too). Too bad EJ doesn't have a proper profession subforum, that thread in general discussion is too cluttered for coherent dps testing with professions...
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On a more shaman related topic, that Lava Burst picture above is interesting. According to wowhead's PTR site, Lava Burst's tooltip wasn't changed, so top damage remains 1518. If 2271 is on Borninexile's tooltip and if he uses a regular build, then we can do some calculations:
2271 / ((1 + concussion + call of flame) * (1 + 4pc T9) = 1705; 1705 - 1518 = 187
Hm, where did this number come from? Next try
2271 / (1 + concussion + call of flame + 4pc T9) = 1733; 1733 - 1518 = 215
Interestingly, this number is equal to Thunderfall totem's boost, but I wasn't aware it shows up on the tooltip?
Just for the kicks, let's try our friend daia above who claims that 4pc T9 adds 304 spellpower:
(2271 / (1 + concussion + call of flame)) - 304 = 1742; 1742 - 1518 = 224
Again, not fitting expectations.
Curious. So, does Thunderfall pop up on tooltip (I'm sorry, can't check myself right now, as I'm not at my gaming PC), or am I missing something?
EDIT: I've checked it ingame, Thunderfall does indeed pop up on tooltip, specifically it gives me 239 extra damage per tooltip, which would equal 215 * (1 + concussion + call of flame).
This suggests that the formula is:
(1518 + 215) * (1 + concussion + call of flame + 4pc T9) = 2270.23
Let's test it with our low number as well:
(1192 + 215) * (1 + concussion + call of flame + 4pc T9) = 1843.17
It fits perfectly.