Little help on my gear/gems (don't read if you will just tell me to "read the stickies"

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Post by 378079

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Post by abulurd

stickies have all the info you need, however just go and gem straight hit, your hit is making my eyes bleed

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Post by WoWTheoryCraft

Using the Wowhead Profiler makes it much easier to see your gear/gems/enchants than an Armory link.

Post by Khraven

Since you don't want to read the stickies, I'll help you out and bring them to you...

* The +15 spirit to your chest is actually better than getting +10 to all stats for maximizing your DPS, and is much cheaper, assuming you have the Glyph of LT.

Gems:
Meta Gems do not differ, based on specs now.

Affliction:
Meta Socket: Chaotic Skyflare Diamond
Red Socket: Runed Cardinal Ruby
Yellow Socket: Reckless Ametrine or Veiled Ametrine
Blue Socket: Purified Dreadstone

Reckless Ametrine if you are hit capped or Veiled Ametrine if you are not.

Destro and Demo:
Meta Socket: Chaotic Skyflare Diamond
Red Socket: Runed Cardinal Ruby
Yellow Socket: Reckless Ametrine or Veiled Ametrine
Blue Socket: Purified Dreadstone

Reckless Ametrine if you are hit capped or Veiled Ametrine if you are not.

You should only gem towards a socket bonus IFF (and even then I would advise against it), the socket bonus is a primary stat such as hit or spell power (and in some cases, spirit). If the socket bonus is not one of these stats, then stick with Runed Cardinal Ruby for all sockets. If you are a JC, then you will want to use Runed Dragon's Eyes.

I bolded the last paragraph because, maybe, it might be important.

Remember that before you're hitcapped, hit outweighs everything else. So if you want to roll with demonology, you need to have 17% hit (14% if you have boomkin or spriest) before even stepping into the raid. If you want to roll with destruction, you should respec to 3/13/55, which would only require you to have 11% hit from gear if you have boomkin or spriest in the raid (14% from gear if you don't).

Edit...
And if you're wondering, here's the sticky that I quoted Warlock Raid Gear, Enchants and Gems

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Post by Khraven

Since you don't want to read the stickies...
I did not say I didn't want to, I said: ...at some point I find trying to get good information from following a group conversation to be confusing.

Ah, my mistake.

Interesting that after the section on gems you quote, that if I follow that section I will actually lose hit rating.

Or I did I read that section totally wrong? Because none of those gems help your hit rate. They all change Spell Power (except the Meta). Or am I missing some bigger picture item?

If you're not hitcapped, use Veiled Ametrine over all other gems. You don't have to match color with gem sockets unless you're going for the socket bonus. That said, you could also swap out some of your gear for ones with hit, don't have to solely rely on gems. All the spellpower in the world would mean nothing if you can't hit the boss.

Post by asakawa

Or I did I read that section totally wrong? Because none of those gems help your hit rate.

Reckless Ametrine if you are hit capped or Veiled Ametrine if you are not.

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Post by asakawa

head - CSD + 23sp
shoulder - sp/hit
chest - 23sp + sp/hit
belt - sp/spirit + 23sp + 23sp
pants - sp/hit + 23sp
shoes - sp/spirit + 23sp
ring - 23sp
weapon - 23sp

this IS in the stickies.