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Ok I love my dps kitty. I am just having problems with getting my dps up here. I have fairly good gear. I know I lack in the idol deparment and I am working on that. I do not raid right now and my guild is small so we just maily do heroics.

I think my build needs to change? Gems?


http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Area+52&n=Felagund

thanks for any advice

What is your dps at right now?

I preempt mine with AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! JOHN ******* MADDEN!!!!! CATCH ME U **********

That kitty rotation is the pits until you get it; I spent quite a bit of time on the dummy practicing. After a couple of hours I was up maybe 30% just from memorizing the rotation, and getting a better feeling for the timers, etc. But I was pretty sad to begin with...



*nods*

Something else; my dps will actually be lower for a majority of the encounters in heriocs. It takes quite a while to get all those darn buffs/debuffs up before your DPS peaks. I know some of the groups I run with can down heroic bosses fairly fast these days. It's not unusual for me to spend the first half of the fight with my DPS slowly building, and in the end I'll be lower on the meters then I am in a longer fight.

Edit:

Armor Pen > Agility > Strength > Hit ~ Expertise > Haste > Critical > Attack Power

That was my understanding at least; but kitty is my 3rd spec, so I'm sure one of the more experience cats could probably offer better advice.


2nd Edit:

Apparently my second grade teacher was right, i don't know the difference between > and < :)

Edited, Aug 7th 2009 8:54pm by someproteinguy

Armor Pen doesn't get to be better until you have a lot of it already. If you're gemmed for Agi and sitting around 250 ArP, you can start switching gems to ArP.


Off Toskks DPS Gear Method, my ranking is:

Agi > ArP > Str > (Hit = Expertise) > (Crit Rating = 2 AP)


Toskk doesn't want to favor ArP over Agi until you get either Grim Toll or Mjolnir Runestone, which I'm still working on. Without either trinket, the break-even point for me would be around 600 ArP (where ArP is = Agi), and with anything higher than 600 ArP, ArP > Agi.

Edit: This is using my stats, with a bizarre combination of Naxx and Ulduar 10/25 loot. Also, using 2t7 and 2t8, because I can't get either my legs or shoulders to drop.

Edited, Aug 7th 2009 9:00pm by AstarintheDruid

The ArP soft cap is determined by the ArP trinket you have available to you.

There is a thread somewhere on it in EJ I'd have to find, but bosses typically have a standard amount of Armor.

The Soft ArP cap would be how much you need to hit 100% ArP when your trinket procs.

The reason it's a soft cap, is you have to figure that when your trinket is on CD, you're still wailing away. The more ArP you have, the more you continue to hit for until it procs again. The downside is you're wasting part of the proc if you're over 100%.

There is a break-even point between ArP and Agility where once you have a certain amount of ArP, Agility actually becomes more valuable again. That number differs between Toskks, Rawr, EJ, etc, so I won't put up a concrete one here, but more of a "Check what system you use says and make a judgement call".

The ArP hard cap is around 1200, so you're wasting the extra ArP from your gear every time your trinket proc pushes you past that. With an up time of, say, 25%, that means that the extra ArP only increases your DPS during 75% of the fight, while extra Agi would increase DPS during 100% of the fight. These numbers are approximations of what Tossk valued each stat at in terms of DPS.

1 Agi = 1.41 DPS
1 ArP = 1.45 DPS

If the ArP only helps 75% of the time, over a 5 min fight it helps for 225 sec, or 362.25 damage / ArP. Agi would be of benefit for the full 300 sec, and increase damage by 423 damage / Agi.

That's why there's a soft cap based on your trinket proc.

I just wanted to tell all of you who gave me advice. I have been working hard on rotation and I am getting better at my dps. Last night in our heroics I hit 19-21. So I am on the move up. When I get new gear and work more on the rotation I hope to be a very nasty kitty!!

Gratz CoolFela! :D