Hellz yeahFollow

I was just wondering how well the gear overlapped these days; so tempting...

If I didn't have a high level warlock that probably would have been enough to get me to switch to a boomkin offspec. But that'd be too many casters, not enough animals on face.

Can't figure out if I want to go 920 haste or 2k for the WG tick.

2k is a lot, though.

Edit: Think I'll settle for 1221 for the extra LB tick.

And sorry for the temporary derail. I played around with Boomkin in my Resto gear and pulled decent DPS as well. Unfortunately I can't figure out caster DPS, so I switched back to Resto.

Edited, Feb 14th 2011 7:57pm by Mazra

I'm always surprised at the amount of haste I have; probably still getting used to stat inflation in a new expansion. 432 reforged away, and I still have 1011; with an average ilvl of 332 on the armory thingy.

Oh right; lazers, moar lazers.

I was reviewing my toon, and just realized that I replaced my crappy boots, that none the less had haste, so I'm below 920.

I'm impressed you enchanted a blue staff with heartsong, I didn't bother.

Edited, Feb 14th 2011 1:46pm by Xsarus

Not really sure. I was following this chart from MMO-Champs.

Says Lifebloom gains a 12th tick at 15% haste, but mentions that pre-buff haste levels should be 1221 rating or 9.53%. I'm not a wizard at math, but wouldn't 9.53% plus 5% equal 14.53% and not 15%?

Might explain why.



Høh høh...

Edited, Feb 14th 2011 8:55pm by Mazra

Xsaurus, you make me feel like a fail boomkin. I haven't managed to pull that kind of dps yet on anything but gimmick fights. And my haste sucks balls right now. It's at 1243, which is still about 200 less than I need for an extra tick with my DoTs. It could be worse though I guess... Sad thing is that if I hadn't had to reforge all my gear for hit/spirit to get hit capped, I'd have just enough haste to get that extra tick.

With your current gear (looked your armory) you should be perfectly able to do that.
You have almost the same gear a I do and I`m pulling 14k dps self buffed without food/flasks while I`m testing rotation in the dummy.

Hmm, I'll try playing around on a dummy then. The other boomkin in my raid group has slightly better gear than I do, and even during raiding on Saturday, neither one of us hit 14k dps. So if I'm ******* up, so is he. >.>

Last I heard they limited us to one alchemist trinket equipped at a time. I think it was in the patch notes where blizz said they were an "unique equip" or however they phrase it.

I know, sad day...

I know how you feel. My DpS DK by the time I disabled my account near the end of Wrath had purples in every slot but trinkets, which were green. I just never got any good drops, and the emblem ones weren't as good as other upgrades I could get.

Really brought my ilvl down. :( To be fair (in a very, very loose sense of the word), I did HAVE purple trinkets that just happened to be worse than my green ones. So I could have inflated my gear score by lowering my dps, but I resisted the temptation.

I know--they're never exciting. DpS get interesting things like transformations w/ buffs or building charges that explode when they hit 20.

To be fair, there's something to be said with being passively reliable. But it would be fun to have something that built a charge with each Dodge and, at 5, gave a small damage shield or <insert mitigation, avoidance or health buff>.

At least make the purely defensive effects somewhat interesting (even though all they are doing is reducing incoming damage by 10% or something). Like let me place a totem that will absorb a fraction of the damage taken for x seconds and then explodes, dealing minor damage in a small range (that includes a higher threat modifier).

[EDIT]

I guess my main issues is that they always say they want trinkets to be flavorful pieces of gear, rather than just something you take for passive stats, but all tanking trinkets are relatively boring--at best adding a CD that's inferior to all the rest of them.

Edited, Feb 14th 2011 8:44pm by idiggory

I'm using the alchemy trinket with the green +sta trinket from Twilight Highlands. It has a mastery proc which I figured was better than Leaden's proc.

I luv my stamina trinkets.

So you can own more than one Alchemist's Stone, you just can't equip more than one simultaneously, right?