Originally Posted by
Indarys
And then you would die because blink was on cooldown when he spawned a death rune under it.
And warriors took Boar's speed because it was the best enchant. Most tanks I knew took it. An extra 3 stamina or run speed? Hmm, not really a hard choice.
I defend saying run speed, and range, is better than lolspirit because it is. You'd literally have to be braindead to not see how it is. In fact, my guild now requires all raiders to have a run speed enchant. Even running for a second every 10 seconds or so makes up for it. Razorscale is a perfect example--you need range on the adds constantly as the tank picks them up and drags them to you. Having Flamethrowing means you can start dps a good second earlier than you could otherwise. Obviously that makes up for the 0.8% crit from spirit, particularly as this is happening time and time again throughout the fight. What else is like this? XT, Hodir, Thorim, Freya, Mimiron, and Yogg. Over half the fights favor flamethrowing over spirit. Then there's fights where you not having range means you need to get in the clusterfuck that is >35 yards in. This causes raid dps loss as people have to spread out even further to avoid you. That's Iron Council, Vezax, and others I mentioned above. It shouldn't be that hard to see that the extra 70 dps (the same amount of extra dps that Emiex here is claiming "isn't worth it" on a topic he also claims to be a serious min-maxer) on a handful of fights isn't worth it.
Fights you spend more than 4 seconds running? Where run speed allows you to stop earlier and cast earlier, giving you a dps boost? Razor, XT, Kologarn, Iron Council, Thorim, Hodir, Vezax, Yogg, Freya, Mimiron...that's all of them besides Auriaya and Ignis, and there you might have to run depending on your strat. If you're going to waste blink everytime you want to move out of a void zone, by all means, have at it, waste the 600 mana and 1.5 seconds. I'll be using my run speed enchant to spend less time running away and more time dpsing, since I'll also be casting instants while I'm running, like hot streak pyro, living bomb, or if they're up, fireblast.
If you still want to try to claim that icewalker beats out run speed more often than the opposite, God help you. Have fun wiping on Mimiron.