Why are you so obsessed with what other people do ?
No one is forcing you to gear or play a certain way ? (thats ignoring "dps" stats are now tank stats or the fact healers are now supposed to heal more.)
In wotlk, if it wasnt for the dps itself it was certainly for threat so you didn't throttle raid dps.
Pretty sure that was before they introduced vengeance ?
And if you do it anyhow but don't like it, im not sure where you're coming from ? Are you blaming us or blizzard for tank dps being a part of encounter tuning ?
If i'm not a strain on the raid or my healers, what exactly is there left for me to do, besides increasing my dps ? Every week both me and healers will get more gear, at what point are we allowed to focus on dps ?
What would an ideal world be to you ? Tanks doing no dps and threat removed completely ?
Santa, this is now my forum sig on our guild's website. Great post Anyways, can we say hurray for sticky???!
In my opinion, optimizing attack power and critical strike rating together - the most beneficial gem combination would be as follows:
Red / Yellow - Inscribed: +5 Strength and +10 Critical Strike
Blue - Rigid: +20 Critical Strike
Using the Haste / Crit gems would be fine; however how much does the lower CD and GCD on SS and TC matter? Therefore I would say that going for attack power and critical strike would be far more optimal as far as amount of damage.
Also an Executioner main-hand enchant would make more sense optimizing critical strike, 120 Crit prot. Dancing Steel is a 102 Strength or 102 Atk Pwr. River Song isn't relevant IMO.
Not sure though, tbh. Opinions?
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I fucking hate this class design team. Even Watcher let me down.
Resolve DRs need to be fixed or good play is borderline negligible again. I'd really appreciate any support; I've still got some fight in me on this issue.
I'm not that good in theorycraft, but isnt mastery better than pure str?
mastery provides same AP that str and still adds some defensive stats, right?
maybe we dont have a mast/crit gem, I dont get into details on these gems changes
Don't make funny of me, If you don't understand what I said.
I'm just a guy with poor studies, that don't have english as first language
No I advocate crit builds. I'm just saying that if I was going to mix and match for pure dps stats haste would be my #2. I know that haste/mastery/crit are all the same color, but I believe in WOD they are all separate and there are no colors which means we can pick and choose, or just all go pure crit!.....or pure mastery if you like boring stats.
Isnt there a Gem chart for WoD yet?
I mean, we will have gems with the new stats, right? like multistrike or versatility
Don't make funny of me, If you don't understand what I said.
I'm just a guy with poor studies, that don't have english as first language
All of the Gems added in Warlords [wowhead.com]
Pretty sure its affecting GCD across the board, only lowers cd for SS / TC tho.
For the gems, look at the various stat weights posted and do the math. Haste is not far behind enough to warrant 50% less stats on gems and thats excluding socket bonus. Same goes for the enchant.
If you look at tooltip you'll see your current mastery/AP scaling. At 540 rating(~47%) on live its currently giving me 31% conversion.
Crit blocks used to proc enrage on 3 sec icd, adding bit more value to it. Not sure if thats true anymore tho
Bonus armor on the other hand provides 1:1 AP conversion.
Last edited by mmoc51f27689b0; 2014-10-21 at 04:50 PM.
I have just completed some basic math concerning stat weights. The results of switching from my current full crit build to a full mastery build would be: -6% crit, +5% haste, +19% mastery as well as -65 attack power. This pretty much speaks for itself as well as what the thread has been saying - go for crit for more damage, for TMI go mastery, the difference isn't very big damage wise, but survival wise it is.
Personally, I will be doing a few fights with each and logging to draw my own conclusions.
Edit ... also... http://www.wowhead.com/item=62661
Last edited by Lilleth; 2014-10-21 at 09:46 PM.
Yes, the lost attack power was direct strength from gemming +5str +10 crit.