For me I just gem up with mastery or exp/mastery gems and on my gear just keep the stats as they are. No reforging so some got haste and some got crit. I do reforge hit into either crit or haste but still try to balance. Works fine for me.
It's all about having a balance of all stats, get 15% hit and then stack whatever you have obv. Mastery is #1 but the other stats are great too.
How is everyone running with trinkets on a per fight basis? I've grown to despise Black blood on any fight with movement and swap it out for even my unupgraded totem.
BBoY gives a slightly better opener on single target fights vs KTT I have seen it on some jugg/malk parses so it can be viable. I ran normal BBoY over flex KTT for awhile and as long as you can reliably get out two chaos bolts and immolate snapshot it's worth using it over KTT if it's a 8 ilvl difference.
Question about gear real quick. Im a destro lock, is it worth it to get 4 piece if im replacing my fully upgraded ordos helm and crafted 553 pants for non-upgraded normal tier helm and flex tier legs, or should I wait till next week so i can upgrade those pieces a bit.
4pc gives you 15% crit with ~50% uptime (so avg out to 7.5%). Each % of crit is 600 points, so the set bonus is worth ~4,500 crit (arguably more since you snapshot immo's with it and you can get a CB off if you're going to cap soon). Compare the stat losses against that, and it's likely worth it.
I'd say it'd be worth it anyway just because the legs actually have static mastery on them unlike the crafted ones though. The 4pc is just a bonus.
EDIT: read two posts down, I'm dumb.
Last edited by britishbubba; 2014-07-11 at 02:30 PM.
Just began to look at warcraft logs again.
It seems that the locks of the best guilds play Affliction from start to finish.
Is it because they are lazy and facerolling everything?
Or does affliction trump all other specs at highest ilvl?
If so, at what ilvl should one switch?
Didn't look like that a few monthes ago.
Last edited by mmoca123b20796; 2014-07-15 at 07:38 PM.
Affliction has high burst and high RNG potential. Compared to Destro, it's better for very short encounters for those very reasons (in terms of parsing where consistency doesn't matter as much as high burst/RNG potential.
For extended fights, Destro's sustained beats out Aff.
Also, Destro doesn't scale as highly with top-end gear as Aff, but it starts with a higher base damage potential at lower gear levels.
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Has anyone noticed Flames of Xoroth doesn't work sometimes? It still costs an ember, I see the fire animation to summon my pet but... no pet is summoned. This happens maybe 20% of the time, which is significant even for an ability that is rarely used.