Divine Hammers can be better single target due to superior stats/ilv/traits. It deals holy damage so it scales very well with gear and Blade of Wrath can waste HP making the damage on Divine Hammers usually stronger than the five or six more total Spenders. Blade of Justice? Never.
One thing I've seen from the logs is that, even though it's true that there may be some padding, the people that are running DH are also 25+ on haste. Top 100 logs on Trilliax are seemingly 85%+ on DH and in that fight the adds don't stay for long, much more so if you're a guild farming it. So I'm inclining to think that after certain Strength and crit it's better to be around 25-28 haste and go with DH even on ST. It kinda makes sense since the more haste you have the less value BoW has.
I might fiddle with DH more, sitting around 24% haste or so. Also wondered why my percentiles seemed a bit off. Normally I'm 75+ but if people are padding, makes sense.
Armory: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ch.../dalaran/ryuji
Song that's currently stuck in my head: pretty much anything from Dance With the Dead
So, what's the current group think concerning our artifact path in 7.2? Obviously you grab Ferocity of the Silver Hand first. After that I was thinking of picking up the extra point in WotA then going for 4th major.
On the other hand though, 4th major doesn't give any single target damage, and ret already has pretty godly AoE. Might be better to go and pick up the 4th point in the other single target minors first.
Armory: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ch.../dalaran/ryuji
Song that's currently stuck in my head: pretty much anything from Dance With the Dead
I'll certainly get an extra point in WotA and DH before I consider going down past Ferocity. Probably get TV and DS damage too.
I'm not entirely sure I'm doing alright despite leg cloak and belt.
Could it be that trinkets affect my performance that much, since all I have is 865 arcanecrystal and (h)MoK which I tend to swap for (h)CoValorous.
Have no logs due to raiding with semipug, but would appreciate any and all advices.
Oh, and, 26% fething mastery.
I was under the impression Wrath of the Ashbringer was being replaced by Concordance of the Legionfall?
Wrath of the Ashbringer is the one that extends wings duration. You're thinking of Ashbringer's Light.
OMG 13:37 - Then Jesus said to His disciples, "Cleave unto me, and I shall grant to thee the blessing of eternal salvation."
And His disciples said unto Him, "Can we get Kings instead?"
Oh yeah, derp.
Am I the only one still hoping for a last minute change to our 4th golden trait? It serves basically no purpose and even devalues a talent which is already under performing...
I don't hate it. It makes mastery not a straight up worthless stat for us, and given that ToS fights aren't going to be simple patchwerk fights and there will be adds to cleave down... It's not amazing, but it's really not an awful idea.
Without Crusade we're still on the upper end for AoE damage at 5+ targets. Our AoE is gonna be flat out fucking retarded in 7.2. In fact, I will be shocked if our AoE doesn't get nerfed.
Lemme put it in perspective. Our mastery will apply on AoE due to 4th major. We're getting another minor trait that buffs Divine Hammer in addition to the 4th rank in Righteous Blade and Deliver The Justice. 4PT20 makes our mastery apply to Divine Hammer. On top of all that, we're getting 4th relic slot, and both DS and DH scale off weapon damage.
Sure, other classes will do more damage as well, but it's not even close to the AoE buffs we're getting. Divine Hammer is gonna tick for like 1.5 mil during Crusade.