Just finished off Lei Shen before the servers went down and picked up a Rune of Re-Origination. When it procs I go over 25000 MASTERY but I belive its more noticeable if I stack haste instead!
Next lockout I'll share my thoughts on it!
Just finished off Lei Shen before the servers went down and picked up a Rune of Re-Origination. When it procs I go over 25000 MASTERY but I belive its more noticeable if I stack haste instead!
Next lockout I'll share my thoughts on it!
Last edited by mmoc7d8146013b; 2013-03-12 at 04:10 AM.
It's interesting, I've somewhat adapted my play-style to dump >3 Maelstrom Stacks + Lightning Bolt before Stormstrike, because you always get 2 stacks of maelstrom from SS, and it's a pretty high probability that you'll get additional maelstrom stacks, so it's important to not waste them by capping. I'm waiting for a simcraft update to see if EoE + UF will be close to EM / PE with the 2pc (massive increase in frequency of Lightning Bolt casts), as it was close on patch day (132k EoE / UF vs. 134k EM / PE).
Regardless of this, I'll probably be running Echo / UF (Maybe PE) on the majority of fights, Anything with adds / target switching that require consistent DPS, will be grounds for going EoE / UF. However fights like Jon'Rokh, Megaera, Iron Qon, Twin Consorts etc, I'll be going EM / PE.
This was happening to me also, Simcraft was saying I would lose a good 8k DPS from upgrading a 517 to 522 weapon, updated simcraft and it showed it as a 2k DPS increase....Actually, i dont think the sim is working for set bonuses atm, results look weird. Getting a massive dps loss upgrading 2x normal t14 to t15 and a 510 to 528 weapon
Few questions:
So basically, fights where there is AoE and alot of target switching we do UF/EoE? And when the damage is burst or continous, we do EM/PE?
I'm thinking that the Fire Elemental glyph is a dps increase, since you get around 3 Fire Elementals each fight, and for each one you get to use EM for 20 seconds. And every 3 minutes, you get to use EM, Ascendance and fire elemental.
And when bloodlust is active, never activate EM, because it doesn't stack?
Can anyone clarify please the best way to get the most from Primal fire Elemental. I have seen people say do not cast the Empower buff and instead let it attack. Is this correct? In that case what role does the Empower serve?
"Brevity is...wit"
517 to 522 MAIN HAND could quite possibly be a downgrade since you are loosing the 500 stat gem. 528 was enough to dump my 517 barely. So with that said I'm goin to hazard a guess that 510 to 522 should be a slight upgrade in most cases. Try resimming with the latest version.
wrt Fire Ele glyph - You have to be really attentive to the fight length to make it work. For every 1 unglyph cast you would have to be able to get 2 glyphed casts off to improve the uptime. This is key because you would need to be injecting a crapton of stats that would wouldn't get on the glyphed version to make up for 25%-50% uptime decreases. Rule of thumb is 3-5m or 9-10 minutes glyph it. Some fights to think about using it include twins and lei shen off the top of my head.
One thing to keep in mind with EoE and UF is that specific combo was simming high at the start of the tier due to 4PC T14. You won't have that once you have 2PC but it's still worth simming the combo.
For the questions about EOE vs. EM and UF vs. PE a good rule of thumb is to think of downtime. ie. are there things that take you away from the boss? If yes then you want to think about picking up CDs so you can front load your damage. To use a contrived example, say you take sustained DPS talents you have a damage potential of 1 at all times. Now if you take CDs your damage potential is 1.25 with the CDs up vs. 0.75 with them down. Now when you move, the sustained talent setup is losing 1 every moment you aren't on the boss, whereas the burst setup is only loosing 0.75 (since you've already front loaded your damage). The numbers are of course contrived but you should get the idea.
Things like adds will throw a wrench in that idea (ie. is there 1 add that needs to die fast? Are there multiple adds that need to be AoEed? Are the multiple adds that need to be swapped to individually? etc) so ymmv.
Last edited by Ryethe; 2013-03-12 at 03:13 PM.
The 522 has a regular gem slot. So it's not the whole 500 agi you loose. On the other hand the base agi is higher on the 517 than on the 528 (637 vs 626). Weird shit...
On a side note I've some troubles to trust simcraft blindly. Especially after I took a look at first week's raidbot numbers....
Is it worth it using a 535 Ilvl str weapon as opposed to a 502 agi weapon?
Cheers! Should've asked this in my previous post as well, what about 535 Str weapon as opposed to a 522 AGI weapon.
1 agi=2ap (plus 5% mail bonus so 2,1) and some crit
1 str=1AP
4765 dps , 674 AP from STR and more secendary stats vs 4222 dps 1234 Ap from Agi
535 str> 522 agi
agi is worth more than 1 point of wepaon dps so your conclusion is unlikely to be correct.
1 point in weapon dps is worth about 4 agi for MH and 2 agi for OH.
Because weapon dps is so damn big part of all melee classes even wrong stat upgrade like str axe is better than lower tier agi weapon. If you should take that str weapon is whole another thing, and up to discussion in your raid.
Never going to log into this garbage forum again as long as calling obvious troll obvious troll is the easiest way to get banned.
Trolling should be.
Where exactly are you regurgitating these fictitious numbers from? mh dps for me is somewhere in the region of 80-90% agi, oh dps is 60-70%