Haste/agi?Follow

Im below haste, but would come close, if i socketed all haste gem. But what will give me the highest DPS, Haste or agi
Im a SV hunter, im also a JC? (that means 3*27)

I am not sure what you mean here. There is no (real) haste issue ATM for Survival builds. The old haste cap was when Steady was the bread and butter of our shot selections, you wanted to have your weapon speed mirror the GCD for maximum DPS. This was usually done by getting enough haste that your autoshot timer was at 2: the 1.5sec Steady Shot cast time and the .5 autoshot. Then they unlinked autoshot and this pretty much went by the wayside. They increased the cast time of Steady to 2 seconds and BM hunters (who have one less shot option than the other builds) want the steady cast time back to 1.5, the GCD. This is done by serpent's swiftness alone without any other haste modifiers. For survival, haste isn't that important because we are firing off our other specials, using Steady as a filler shot when all others are on CD. To have a 1.5 Steady would be optimal, but not necessarily needed.




Agility. Haste (for the most part) is only affecting auto shot and the cast time of Steady. Remember that paperdoll DPS is not actual DPS so even though stacking that haste seems to increase your DPS a great deal, it is not taking into account your special shots. Agility gives you RAP, Crit and Armor. It stacks with raid buffs. Agility is increased by your tree and affects the tree's procs in the crit it gives. Agility = Win.

Haste is the worst DPS stat, even if you're below the soft cap. With my current gear (which is slightly below soft cap w/ Ret Aura), even Int is almost as good according to the spreadsheet.

Edited, May 14th 2009 6:38am by Theophastus