His Excellency Aethien wrote:
I'm a dps *****.
I hate using crafted ammo because it's that expensive.
But on the other hand, I hate knowing that I could do better even more.
Hey, normally I'm searching for every tiny bit of extra DPS I can get (like speccing Leatherworking for the drums before Sunwell and things like that).
However in WotLK most raid encounters are so easy, I don't really have to search for the last 10 or 20 DPS.
Our first kill of Patchwerk took ~3min30seconds (and he has a 7minute enrage timer...). That was with a lot of fresh lvl 80ies and mostly T6 gear.
The last kill took us 10 seconds longer, but we lost our 4 melee dps during the first seconds (I guess our off-tanks or our healers where a bit slow with the hateful strikes).
I don't see the reason to spend ~200g on ammo per raid if you can kill the bosses with 20-22 people well before the enrage.
The only very intense fight is Sartharion with 3 drakes up.
The dps requirements are rather high and having more dps makes this fight easier.
However, we have beaten that encounter already (at least in the 25man version, we have not tried the boss in 10man up to now). Since we are improving our gear day by day, I don't think we will have a hard time with that encounter from now on. Perhaps I'll use the crafted ammo there, but we do not really need it.