Shihli's Awkward Gear Predicament
Shihli — Tue, 07/15/2008 - 15:08
So I've been pouring over Cheeky's Spreadsheet for a decent while this afternoon (slow day at work), and I've discovered something:
With my gear options currently, I could see some bizarre dps increases and decreases depending on how much +hit and +haste I opt to use.
My options, more or less:
1) [Bindings of Lightning Reflexes] vs. [Wraps of Precise Flight]
2) [Cloak of Fiends] vs. [Drape of the Dark Reavers]
3) [Shattered Sun Pendant of Might] vs. [Choker of Vile Intent]
4) [Valestalker Girdle] vs. [Boneweave Girdle]
5) [Black Bow of the Betrayer] vs. [Legionkiller]
In short, I have a lot of applied theorycrafting ahead of me. Next time we step into BT I might start dinking around with my gear and see how I do. Depending on the amount of haste, sometimes the crossbow comes out over Illidan's bow, and all hell breaks loose if I opt to use all of my haste gear (in short, I get to weird "humps" where more haste doesn't help, as my shot rotation gets borked due to bad autoshot casting times).
Whoo boy.
Well, I've downloaded
Shihli — Thu, 07/17/2008 - 13:18Well, I've downloaded Kharthus' Hunter Timers and I'll be fiddling with them over the next few days, boomtesting and such to make sure I know what gear setup is "the best".
Hopefully I should see a marked personal dps increase on Brut on Monday.
As a quick aside: Based on
Shihli — Wed, 07/16/2008 - 10:41As a quick aside:
Based on the calculator above, with my current gear and typical 25man raid buffs I have 1063 agi. Combine that with an approx. uptime of Expose Weakness of 90% and a typical raid composition (1 surv hunter, 1 BM hunter, 3 rogues, 1 dps warrior, 1 prot warrior, 2 ferals, 1 enh shammy, and 0 ret pallies) ...
Total raid DPS is increased by nearly 750 dps (!) and Orky's threat is increased by 21-22 TPS.
That's actually a way more significant buff than I originally gave it credit for. Wowzers.
Ooh, something neat I found
Shihli — Wed, 07/16/2008 - 10:26Ooh, something neat I found on the hunter forums:
http://www.anybrowser.org/wow/survival_guide.html#calculator
Dr. Boom isn't a full-on
Shihli — Wed, 07/16/2008 - 10:02Dr. Boom isn't a full-on accurate representation of performance in a raid environment for a couple reasons:
1) He's lv. 70, boss mobs are lv. 73 - accurate weighing of hit will not be taken into account as my hit rating cap would be at 32 hit rating (as opposed to 95 for a boss).
2) Can't use pet - adjusting my agi and RAP will adjust my pet's AP accordingly
But isn't Dr. Boom only
saedo — Wed, 07/16/2008 - 09:47But isn't Dr. Boom only really for rotations due to it's level. Not really stat weighting with hit, crit, etc.
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If you have time I suggest
coretwo — Wed, 07/16/2008 - 06:34If you have time I suggest going to Dr. Boom and doing some wws runs. That way you don't have to muck around in raid settings.
Nope. That was a bug that
Shihli — Tue, 07/15/2008 - 15:57Nope. That was a bug that was actually locking out hunter abilities, preventing the rotation from occurring properly. However, I knew how to work around the bug so it wasn't a problem really.
Does the change to steady
Dufe — Tue, 07/15/2008 - 15:46Does the change to steady shot+ instant -> Autoshot in today's patch change any of this?
Generally a 1.5:1.
Shihli — Tue, 07/15/2008 - 15:44Generally a 1.5:1. Steady-Auto-Steady-Arcane-Auto-Steady-Auto-Steady-Multi-Auto-Steady-Auto-Steady-Arcane-Auto-Steady-Auto ... rinse and repeat.
what rotation are you
Sorreah — Tue, 07/15/2008 - 15:42what rotation are you using