Gear checking, Be Imba! ???Follow

As has been said many times on this forum, be.imba is BAD. It's based on iLevel only, so it doesnt give a good estimate about what your gear is like and where you should be able to raid, don't use it.

That site tells me that I could be improved because I'm missing 3 hit rating, but it doesn't ding people for specc'ing Marksman. It does tell me that I should be getting my upgrades from Sunwell (fairly true. I'm geared enough for Kalegcos), but there's no way I'd be able to keep up during Kil'Jaeden.

If I replace my Kara rep ring (Shade will stop hating me someday), and my hourglass of the unravellor it would knock me into the middle/end of Sunwell for upgrades. That's because the iLVL of my gear is close to Gronnstalker pieces, but the 4-piece bonus makes such a huge difference that you just can't leave BT/Hyjal behind without them.

Actually, MaxDPS isn't that bad, but it does only work for BMs.

It isn't as good as cheeky's, but it does make a pretty decent tool to give you some numbers to play around with. Just put your numbers in by hand. You have to do some thinking on your own though, as it doesn't take certain things into consideration. For example the proc from the spellstrike set on my mage. It'll tell me something that does a couple of dps more than what I'm wearing, but neglects to take account of the increase in +dmg.

Be Imba on the other hand... Well, it tells you how much hit rating you're short (if you are).



Actually, after looking at MaxDPS for hunters, just use cheeky's.


Edited, Aug 31st 2008 1:29am by Ieatrocks

I will admit that be.imba is a fun tool for monitoring where it thinks you should be. I've also used it on occasion to check out someone of another class for a PuG. I can use the Armory to see if they have the right general stats, but then I can use be.imba to check where that gear came from. I can tell if a mage is on the right track with what stats they're stacking up on- but I can't tell if their gear is from Kara/heroics or if they've got T5 and T6-level gear.

But the biggest thing about be.imba is that it is purely based on iLVL of gear. It doesn't care WHAT I'm wearing- just whether it's gemmed and enchanted. So I can put on a full elemental shaman set, and as long as I have it fully enchanted, gemmed, and I'm at 142 hit rating, it'll tell me that I'm in top shape.