Twisted Visage enchant?Follow

Mongoose is your winner for multipurpose weapon enchants. Some are saying it's actually better than Berserking if you have certain gear arrangements.

Mongoose it is, though the last thing I need in dps spec is more crit (52% in my last raid, 47% self-buffed). I hope they nerf crit along with dodge.

It's in the FeralbyNight thread over on EJ. And yah, EJ seems pretty adamant that ArP beats Agility once you can get over around 300 ArP. I'm regemming my gear tonight now that I can hit 346 ArP. Now I just need a Mjolnir Runestone or Grim Toll.

Nightcrowler has run his sim with factoring various fight conditions such as not being able to DPS the boss for 10+sec dur to movement etc and at high levels of gear, ArPen still wins out. So many of the challenging fights in Ulduar don't even require too much movement from us. Hodir, Thorim, Vezax, Ignis, XT, Mimiron (except P3), most of Aurayia (sp?). All are fights where you can basically be on the boss almost 100% of the fight. Even if you do have to move, you usually can do so without losing much if any DPS time.


I switched all my gems to ArPen on the weekend and now have 411 before my new Grim Toll procs. My DPS is higher than ever, but I couldn't tell you how much of that is the re-gemming and how much is due to getting the Grim Toll. Can't wait for tonight to try out my new chest and weapon!

The rest I get, and I can see not having to move for these two also, but how does your guild fight these two that you can stay behind them to Shred?

We kite Ignis around in a circle, so you'd always be on the scorched patches and taking damage, and we try to keep everyone in front of Auriaya to disperse the damage from Sonic Screech.

If there's a better way to do them (or I'm missing something about ArP and it works just as well for Mangle as Shred), I definitely want to know.

Yep, on cat lady, I just run through the boss during the cast time. With tremor totem, you aren't often away from the boss for more than a few seconds (especially with feral charge as backup) so often that is just energy pooling time and not much if any yellow damage lost.

For Ignis, our raid stands in the water on one side (ranged further back and melee right on the edge) and the tank moves the boss from left to right in front of the raid. Often, I don't have to reposition much at all on a transition. We only have the 2 positions as one scorch disappears about the same time the other appears. It works pretty well for us, but I can't really comment on how hard the healing or anything is as I just concentrate on tearing the boss a new one.

 
 
 
          Tank <--------->  Tank 
 
           Boss          Boss 
     
            Scorch   Scorch 
 
                 Water 
 
 
 

Edited, Jul 30th 2009 11:07pm by RareBeast

Very tough for me to say for sure. I've been getting upgrades as well over the last few weeks. While I was still in Agi gear I cracked 10k DPS on one Ignis downing. Lot of RNG happiness there though.

Since though, we are doing hard mode, so only one heart phase makes things a bit more realistic. I normally easily clear 6k, and that is with almost always having to battle rez somebody and sometimes I have to run around trying to find them Without any interruptions, I think 7k or just under is about right. If I can get hysteria it would be a little better, but with 3 geared feral druids I get it rarely, particularly seeing the DK giving it and the other druids have been raiding together for a long time :)

At least I have convinced the guild that the hysteria should be going on a feral druid (or tank if threat is an issue). I do notice that quite often I have Vigilance put on me though :)

I must admit, I rarely look at how much DPS I do on a fight. Normally I am comparing my DPS & damage done to the other ferals in the raid and other DPS to gauge my performance.



Edited, Jul 31st 2009 4:19am by RareBeast

Looking at his sig, I'd say Spirestone is a pretty good guess :P

Ahh....must fix that. I transferred all my toons to an Oceanic server as my guild fell apart with 3.1 and it is too hard to find quality raiders who are willing to start raiding at 2am server time. Then there turned out to be an alliance scum with the name already reserved on the server (even though he is under level 10 and doesn't appear on armory). So there is now a Rarebëast on Jubei'Thos (hold down alt and type 137 on the numeric keypad to get the ë).

It was an expensive process transferring 10 toons :) But within a week I was participating in my guilds second ever Yogg kill, so it worked out very well for me :)