Man I love the dev team right now.
Readiness does not let you cast twice as many AMOCs. The change is a buff or a nerf depending on how long the fight lasts and if there are burst windows you can capitalize on with the higher damage over 30 seconds. On average the change is a net gain, but not a big one.
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Sure, if every fight in SoO is between 30s and 1m59s long.
But if we take a real fight length, then you'll see it is closer. Also, the buff to AMoC was not supposed to be the only answer to Readiness being removed.
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The AMoC buff is also a nice buff to burst and burn phases at the end of a fight.
Agree with that. I kind of like the idea of the pet getting it, but from a in-practice approach, it just wouldn't work well. Looking forward to seeing what they plan for us, and I like the idea that we alone will get something different (as long as it's still on par w/ everyone's)
Just letting my imagination go wild here on the new cloak hunter proc.
What if it summons an image of Xuen or a cub of Xuen on the mob that it procced on and either swipe in a pretty big cone or dashing around that mob hitting other mobs near it.
I am glad blizz is going out of their way to give hunters their own proc. The pet thing had me slightly worried.
It's actually a buff. In a 5 minute 30 second fight, you'll get 6 AMoCs in (since you have to wait 30 seconds to cast the second AMoC). Without readiness you get 5 AMoCs. On live let's say the AMoCs did 100k per cast. In 5min 30 seconds they'd do 600k. On the PTR each AMoC would do 140k per cast. So, the 5 AMoCs would do 700k. Unless a fight is shorter than 2 minutes and 30 seconds (3 AMoCs for 300k on live vs 2 AMoCs for 280k on PTR.) It is without a doubt, a buff.
nice that they will change the procc for us, seems underwhelming, and i want the graphic on my cloak, not pet!
It depends on the length of the fight. Overall it might a very slight nerf, but nowhere near the ridiculous 30% someone claimed. From the other thread:
Fight Length (mins) -> Number of AmoC (W/Readiness) -> Damage (w/Readiness) -> Number of AMoC (No Readiness) -> Damage (No Readiness)
1 2 200% 1 140%
2 2 200% 1 140%
3 3 300% 2 280%
4 3 300% 2 280%
5 4 400% 3 420%
6 5 500% 3 420%
7 6 600% 4 560%
Legendary cloak proc does about 3% of my total damage on training dummy. Is this joke or something? Doesn't feel like legendary at all. Meta does twice more. I was expecting at least 10% or more...