ok good enough to start destro or afflict?Follow

Ok so i just specced destro havent done anything yet.. i have bin affliction for a long time and i just run kara once a week and thats all so getting gear is slow going, i am usually top of dps chart. i looked on maxdps.com and put in my stats and it sais i will do more dps as destruction what do you think?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gurubashi&n=Verbal

i have a diff neck and off hand for when im affliction they both have 51 shadow

With your gear as it stands, you'll get most DPS out of a 0/21/40 Shadow build. Plus, your damage will scale much better as your gear progresses - compared to say a UA build. Additionally - if you get assigned to a curse and can't do CoA - you're dps won't get knocked as hard.

To confirm this - download the spreadsheet from www.leulier.com - you'll find you get about 20dps more from 0/21/40.
I used these stats : 1104 dmg (+220 shadow), 121 hit, 110 crit.

Don't listen to these people quoting stuff like "180 hit, 17% crit, 900 damage" - they don't have a clue. The answer can be found by downloading that spreadsheet.

For the time being you should use these value guidelines as a rule of thumb ;

1 hit rating = 1.6 damage.
1 crit rating = 1.1 damage.
1 haste rating = 1.0 damage.

Out of this guys 10 gems - 9 of them have hit rating .... I think he realises that he is short of hit and is attempting to deal with it. Considering socket bonuses he's sacrificed 16 spell hit for 25 spell damage (I'm referring to taking hit/dmg gems instead of straight hit). In dps terms - these work out pretty much identically - so I don't really consider it any sacrifice at all.



Edited, Jun 19th 2008 5:47am by kbd