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I haven't seen anything describing the affects of the proc'd haste bonus on RJs you already have ticking. But ya, it makes for an interesting consideration.

Ya same here. Though I'll probably steer clear of those haste-procing trinkets myself. I was always terrible at utilizing the proc (it'd be half over before I noticed it!) and the random nature of it is kinda a bummer.

I'm really liking the re-balancing of the spells now that GotEM changed. Before Regrowth was one of those spells that had an odd window of usefulness. Slow steady damage favored Rejuvenation over it, and spike damage favored Nourish, and it's niche was somewhere inbetween for me. Not that this still isn't the case, but it seems it's niche has grown bigger now. I'm guessing I'll find my use of it increasing as I slowly get used to using it, or if I break down and get that Rapid-RJ glyph.

On that topic I'm still thinking about picking Rapid-RJ up. I'd probably be dropping my WG glyph for it. I'd still be wanting Nourish for OT heals and I'm not seeing myself parting with Swiftmend. But we always seems to have a lot of hunters around, and that 6th target on WG helps me when their pets are all swarming around the melee DPS soaking up my healing. :p

*shrugs* we'll see I suppose

Ya, the irony there is that I can never use them when I most want to either.

If I'm still 'ahead' of the damage, and I know the boss is entering a heavy damage phase, I can work a proc trinket into my rotation while I'm pre-HoTing people for the damage spike. So I'll get some use out of it then.

Too often though something unexpected will happen, like losing a healer, and I'll be struggling like crazy trying to keep everyone up. If I remember I'll glance longing over at a +spellpower boost I could desperately use right now, but won't have a chance to trigger.

Tried it for around 30 minutes off and on. Damn ***** wont take her fuc&ing shirt off.

I agree with non-mana proc trinkets sucking for healing. A tanking on use that can be tied to an osh!t button or a DPS one for a go apesh!t CD are easier to utilize. I like stable trinkets for healing as the randomness is too often wasted and remembering an on-use while scrambling to keep people up is annoying as it adds a button to push which slows the healing.

Maz, socket bonuses are there to trick baddies. ICC is very avoidance friendly, if your HP is enough think of going to Shifting(+agi/stam) gems.


On a hilarious side note. To pass a drug test my roommate is having a friend pee in a jar and then he is going to put the urine in a rubber and jock it up to use to pass the test tomorrow.

Still haven't figured out that video, huh?

'nuff said.

You don't notice it.

No, seriously. I dodged SO MUCH tanking ICC 10. Like I'd only take 1 in every 4 saber lashes, and I was only taking steady damage on saurfang once I got marked.

Keep in mind too that block is more mitigation than avoidance. You can null an attack with enough BV but you aren't actually avoiding anything, and you aren't likely nulling a full boss hit without losing a lot of other stats.

Dodge isn't any less useful now than it was before, just our net worth of it is a bit lower. You still dodge like mad.

Check out WOL from my 10, I didn't get the Saurfang fight (was having connection problems, wanted to cut out any possible causes) but if you look at Marrowgar you see I took a LOT less damage on Saber Lash than the pally, and a lot less melee damage on Deathwhisper. If paladin was advantaged here you should see it in the numbers.

Is the Executioner Enchant viable for a Armor Pen build?

Are you close to 1200 ArP?

If not go with AP.

The ArP cap is 1400 as an FYI.

Maybe over 1100 passive ArP and it is worth it.

I'm drinking Martinis for xmas to help be classy for the holidays.

It isn't that hard to get with the 25 man gear. It comes with ArP up the *****

Plus trinkets and weapons with big ArP help.

With only reliable access to 10 man gear yes it will be harder to reach high levels of ArP.

Christ, I leave the board for a week and miss out on all kinds of awesome. xromania having another fit and being unrated, Arex quitting the club and almost an entire page in this thread.

Back on the topic of ICC10, with the aura taking off 20% dodge (leaving me with about 20%), wasn't there being talked about the damage taken from ICC would be less spiky? I'm assuming faster hits for less damage would be the solution, which would, I guess (suck at math), make those remaining 20% dodge count for more than 40% against a boss that only hits you half as much, but twice as hard, right?

So my 20% dodge in ICC is equal to 40% dodge in ToC in terms of survivability?

That said, what's enough health for switching gems to Shifting? I currently have 38k unbuffed in Bear form in my raid gear. I sacrifice some health to get additional dodge there or I could hit 40k unbuffed. I'm in mostly in Conquest T9 (ya, I know, I need more off-set pieces) and I can't see myself getting Frost emblems soon for a new cloak, which is the most obvious upgrade.

Armory.

Question is, should I focus on getting T9 off-set pieces and start gemming with Shifting instead of Solid? Right now I'm using a mix of both to get socket bonuses (it's agility so I might as well).

The reason I'm getting nervous here is because I've done ICC with a Paladin in equal gear and almost equal health values. Since health and dodge is what we've got going for us, I figured I should start to worry about it now.