landslide is just a fixed amount of AP, but avalanche scales with mastery. could there be a hypothetical breakpoint where the X damage from avalanche is better than the 1K AP from landslide?
landslide is just a fixed amount of AP, but avalanche scales with mastery. could there be a hypothetical breakpoint where the X damage from avalanche is better than the 1K AP from landslide?
I believe that there is a breakpoint, but unreachable with normal gear levels. You'd have to sim it to find an actual number.
yeah, but isn't this something that's perfectly calculatable by applying a formula and stat weights?
Last time I tried to work it out it was something like 25,000 mastery.
Compare Landslide to unenchanted and note the difference. Then compare Avalance with that and figure out what number you'd have to multiply the Avalanche damage with for it to surpass the DPS you gained from Landslide (compared to no enchant). That'll give you an idea of whether the levels of mastery required are realistic. You'll still have to do three sims (Landslide, Avalanche, no enchant), but you won't have to play around with mastery values in the simulator.
Note that 1k AP increases in value as you gain more haste, crit and (amusingly) mastery.
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avalanche is a very decent enchant and upgrading both weapons was only a 400dps increase for me and so i waited until troll heroics before getting them.
I remember a thread last month about the same and then Rouncer said 18k mastery (now 25k).
So I don't think you should ever worry.
For pvp, avalanche was nice since it consumed grounding totem and also warrior's spell reflect when it procced. Not sure if it still does.
Man, I know it's unreachable, but imagine how hard Avalanche would hit with 18k Mastery.
Maybe two expansions down the road we'll reach that much, and I'll screenshot some big nasty Avalanche crits.
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are they talking about 18K mastery RATING or just 18K mastery? in the latter case, avalanche would hit for 45K % more, or 450X as hard. so it would hit for 202.5K. if you think that's much: lava lash would hit for something ridiculous like 9.3M.