Originally Posted by
Merc1138
What balance? Any raider will tell you that you NEED to be hitcapped. If you are not hitcapped, there is no point in taking you on a raid. And thank you for proving my point that you don't know what you're talking about. With your logic, it would be acceptable to try and run BC heroics at 70 in pvp gear, which was completely terrible for pve locks. I clearly remember seeing other locks I'd run 5 mans with, have the same spell dmg, crit, and haste I did, and watch them do only 2/3's the dmg I did because they had nowhere near enough spell hit even for 5 man runs. There's a REASON blizzard made so many blues and epics available from heroics in wrath with so much hit available, so you could get capped again.
If I had to choose between your 157 hit 20% crit 125 haste and 1540 spell dmg, and another lock with 370 hit 10% crit 125 haste and 1400 spell dmg to go on a raid and do dps, I'd pick the hitcapped lock.
Apparently you don't seem to understand that misses mean recasts, which is wasted mana, meaning more lifetaps, which means even less dps. Afflcition lock misses a haunt? Oops, there goes 20% of their dps for the next 8s till the CD is up. Destro lock has a chaos bolt miss, why have the talent then? Way to miss on a backlash or nightfall proc.
You mentioned in another post needing to be exalted with the kirin tor to get the flameheart spell scalpel. That right there also shows that you haven't done much looking at available gear, because that weapon requires revered, not exalted(actually, if you had paid much attention to my armory page at all, it even says that in the tooltip, I was trying to make a point about being hitcapped and gemming to meet the hitcap, not just stroke my e-peen). Had you not bothered to try and get 999/1000 exalted with wyrmrest for some reason(swap the tabard out in the middle of the run if you're going to hit exalted ffs), you'd be almost 1000 rep ahead with kirin tor and only need 1 more run to hit revered. And again I'll mention the ebonweave crafted gloves that are easily obtainable that would give you the same spell dmg(except the spirit) but provide an extra 51 hit rating. It's true that with the gear you have available to you, you'd have 5% or so less crit, but you'd also be hitcapped. Can't crit when you miss.
And I don't really like the "use" trinkets, but I hope you're at least saving for the sundial. I'm not sure why you'd bother with that green trinket you have since the spirit buff it provides doesn't add up to much since it's only for 10 seconds on what I'm guessing is a 2 minute cooldown.
So again, worry about the crit AFTER you're hitcapped for the content you're trying to run.