scent of blood and hit/exp

[ghostomc]

should I hit/exp cap to make the most out of scent of blood.

Ive read different thing on the subject but nothing concert to prove it is/not good to go hit/exp.

1. really what I wanta know is should I itemize hit/exp or not.

2. another thing is conversion vs. deathpact - is conversion overall a bettter heal but decreases my dps?

3. last thing is gear, should I get dps helms if they have a ton of mastery or is sticking with a tank stat helm better and reforge it too mastery.



p.s. anyone else annoyed with the scent of blood mech? I really feel you should also have a 20% chance to stack the buff from dodge, parry, and when you absorb an attack. With the way it is i almost never get full 5 stacks of sob and it annoys me.

[Devwar]

Scent of Blood personally has no impact on how I gear/spec/whatever, it is rather useless. Regarding DPS, though, I would highly suggest reaching the hit/exp caps WITHOUT sacrificing mastery. I have finally hit that point with a 478 ilvl, and it makes a significant difference in your DPS output, which is definitely important now-a-days.

I also use Conversion when raiding, as it seems more useful, primarly regarding the Stone Guards, I can pop it while tanking the single dog to help out the healers focus on more important jobs.

Your last point, if you get a DPS helm with mastery, it could be better. I think the best gloves from heroics are the gloves with hit and mastery, which are considered DPS gloves based on their model.

[burbon]

Scent of blood shouldn't affect your playstyle. For practical purposes you can pretty much ignore the buff.

1. There are plenty of dks how go full hit /exp and do quite well. It depends on your preference and healers more than anything, but it is a perfectly viable option even for high end progression at the moment.

2. I would personally never take conversion over death pact. Death pact is so amazing and on such a reasonably short cd that I would never give it up.

3. This just depends. If the tanking helm has dodge I would go with the dps one, but you also have to factor in whether there is a greater amount of strength on the dps helm as strength converts very well into parry and can't be ignored. Also haste does provide some, albeit negligible, survivability value.

[ghostomc]

thanks for the input