The Armory Thread.Follow

That you're using Blood in PvP is testament to how utterly bad you are.

BTW, I hit like a truck against plate (hit a 4k Mut tonight on a ret pally with no wings).

Edit: and my gear is pretty sh*tty, too. 2800 AP, 23% crit.

You're just bad.

You're a @#%^ing idiot if you think HKs = honor earned.

WG dailys every day since WotLK was released. Oshi, whaaaat?

6-7k a day = lolhonor.

FYI, if you sit through a pally stun, you're a @#%^ing ******.

I 100-0 pallys.

I personally crit Korz earlier for 3500 MH.


I think you smoke @#%^ing crack.



Average crits are well over 2k for me.




Honestly, I think you are pulling those numbers out of your ***.


Don't make me go in a bg and start taking screens. That's just gonna have to **** me off signing up for another photobucket account.

Mmhmm, considering in a future post I looked at his armory and noticed he only had 14 WG wins done, and others on the same server as him were sitting at 60~+

I could regem hit, but I'd lose a little DPS by doing so.

Your logic is wrong. Regemming hit is going to increase your dps, that's what people are trying to tell you. You may lose a little AP, but your poison dmg will more than make up for it. If you only have 104 hit rating right now, your melee miss rate is probably well over 20%. Take a look at a recent WWS. I had 309 hit, ~3200 AP unbuffed, 32% crit... and notice my melee swing miss rate was 16%. If you think you can raid with around 100 hit rating and stack AP to make up for it, you are wrong. Also note how much damage IP does...18%, right a whopping 20,000 dmg less than mutilate. Poison dmg is a massive part of your dps, and gimping hit is gimping dps.

And getting advice from the o-boards is as rewarding as killing a kitten.

Edited, Jul 21st 2009 8:55pm by ThomasMagnum

Part II – Stats



Before we get into early raiding, here's what you need to know about your class: There are 6 Stats that will increase your DPS in one way or another:

- Attack Power (AP),
- Hit Rating,
- Crit Rating,
- Expertise,
- Haste and
- Armor Penetration



Agility provides 1 AP, 0.012% Crit, some armor & dodge (both irrelevant); Strength provides 1 AP per point.

For these stats "higher is better" applies at all times - there is no situation in which having a lower score is better than having a higher score. 2 notes however: Hit Rating & Expertise have a cap, which means that at one point you will stop missing, rendering more Hit Rating useless; and one point at which mobs won't be able to dodge you anymore (mobs *can* dodge from behind, players can't), at which point more expertise is useless. A cap isn't necessarily something to aim for, it's just something to not surpass if you can at all avoid it (as you’d be wasting stats at that point).

The second part is as important: There are no magic numbers.
There is no fixed value in any stat that you have to have. Always take the item which gives you more DPS, no matter what the actual stats on it are (with the footnote that exceeding a hit/expertise cap won't provide more DPS). You do not have to reach any Hit Rating magical cap, and trying to do so while gimping your other stats means you’re being an idiot (that means you could just stop being one any time you wish btw).

Rating conversions can be found at the wowwiki.com page ( http://www.wowwiki.com/Combat_rating_system ), or you can download RatingBuster which will put them into the item tooltip in-game ( http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/rating-buster.aspx )




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Rules of thumb:
- Don't drop below special attack hitcap (66 or 99); beyond that stack Whatever Works Best™, which will usually be Agility or straight AP. There is no “1 true list” of stat ranking, technically you could break it down to ~40 primary and secondary/derived stats for the 3 raidbuilds, and they all rank somewhere between ~1 AP and ~2 AP, depending on what exactly your build is, what your other stats are (ie: your gear) and what exactly happens in a fight.

Generally speaking (without considering builds!):
- Strong Stats: Hit Rating (Specials Cap) > AP ~Agility
- Average Stats: Expertise ~ Hit Rating (Poison Cap) > Crit Rating ~ Armor Penetration ~ Haste Rating
- Weak Stat: Hit Rating (above Poison Cap) – yeah, it’s really kind of crappy