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Post by
asakawa
I understand what you're saying (and I agree that Soul Fire in both incarnations is the suck) but that comparison is apples and oranges. Arcane doesn't have anything else hitting their target. We've got pets and DoTs
Post by
A027059
(
Here's the source
for anyone interested. Personally I
really
miss Ghostcrawler's consistent and candid contributions. The Dev Watercooler posts are interesting but it's not the same.)
I completely agree with your observations around Ghostcrawler's justification on buffs/nerfs for 4.2. It completely took whatever anger or frustration I had regarding the Soul Swap nerf and made it disappear. For whatever reason, having someone give you the unvarnished truth seemed to put me at ease. Maybe I saw their (Blizzard's) point of view and realized it's the price we pay for playing such a dynamic and diverse game. To paraphrase: Soul Swap was too OP'd for PvP, so we upped the cooldown to 30 seconds.
Gotcha. I got it. Ok. Thanks for not window-dressing this. I guess I'll just have to focus more on multi-dotting sans Soul Swap for many fights.
Post by
DraconisAerius
(
Here's the source
for anyone interested. Personally I
really
miss Ghostcrawler's consistent and candid contributions. The Dev Watercooler posts are interesting but it's not the same.)
I completely agree with your observations around Ghostcrawler's justification on buffs/nerfs for 4.2. It completely took whatever anger or frustration I had regarding the Soul Swap nerf and made it disappear. For whatever reason, having someone give you the unvarnished truth seemed to put me at ease. Maybe I saw their (Blizzard's) point of view and realized it's the price we pay for playing such a dynamic and diverse game. To paraphrase: Soul Swap was too OP'd for PvP, so we upped the cooldown to 30 seconds.
Gotcha. I got it. Ok. Thanks for not window-dressing this. I guess I'll just have to focus more on multi-dotting sans Soul Swap for many fights.
So why couldn't they give it a seperate CD for in pvp areas? They do something similar with how fear works, giving it 2 seperate effect times, so I can't see that it would be impossible to have 2 different cooldowns depending on where you are. Another example of this would be how you can't use certain things (doomguard, infernal, soulstone) in arena.
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238331
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Post by
Rekijan
Is anyone else looking over gear trying to find piece together some nice set they want to aim for?
I did :D and this is what I came up with.
Normal, rep and crafted.
And one can only hope for a legendary
Of course you will probably be doing HC modes so the total set would not make so much sense.
I was wondering if people had done this and/or if you could comment on my first link, might have missed something.
Edit: This is made for my main raiding toon, who is affliction.
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812974
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Post by
AWildmann
Is anyone else looking over gear trying to find piece together some nice set they want to aim for?
I did :D and this is what I came up with.
Normal, rep and crafted.
And one can only hope for a legendary
Of course you will probably be doing HC modes so the total set would not make so much sense.
I was wondering if people had done this and/or if you could comment on my first link, might have missed something.
Edit: This is made for my main raiding toon, who is affliction.
I'll bookmark this, since all I see sometimes is stuff with mastery, its gonna be really useful!
Post by
Rekijan
Glad to hear you found it useful. And 'good news everyone' I am getting our guild's second legendary :)
And yes lots of bad stuff on non-tier gear mostly. Kinda like the lack of spirit cloth except for the priest tier set.
Post by
AWildmann
One thing I did was try to get rid of my Stump of Time, I did used a reforged version with only 198, so now I could use 2 damaging trinkets (Volcano and Heart of Ignacious), and I'm hoping that the new gear might relieve some of the enchants/gems I used to keep up with the hit cap.
I'm mostly doing this because since there's no hit trinket in 4.2, I don't wanna keep dragging a 359 with no other choices. I'm not sure yet if this is gonna be an increase on dps, I'll still have to try a few times.
Post by
Rekijan
Well if you look at the item set I have, I am using double int trinkets and I still have enough hit. So yes it is very possible to replace that stump. I would suggest keeping it though, you might get a hit piece first and then have to replace a hit piece.
Post by
AWildmann
Oh no I'm not gonna DE that or anything, cause we never know what might drop.
Post by
363599
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Post by
Rekijan
Are you in a guild that by now already killed Rag? Were you 13/13hc way before this patch went live?
No? Then the difference between AffDrain and AffSB isn't big enough to concern you. You can still go with drain life as your filler and do a lot of dps. You will be behind the SB users by ~300dps. That is not major is you aren't in a top-world guild.
Post by
AWildmann
Got a new weapon last night off of trash mobs,
Spire of Scarlet Pain
.
I feel a little dirty for using a staff but, Its an upgrade anyway so I'm happy to get it, been a long while since I ever used a staff. =D
edit: Gosh I keep mistaking the name of the staff
Post by
AWildmann
Like Rekijan said, you can play affliction and will be just a bit lower than SBAfflic.
The thing is, Drain Life was being too good compared to Sb, because it would hit harder, be a dot (also get a mastery bonus) AND it would still heal you. That's 3 extra features Shadow Bolt doesn't have.
If you do want to use Drain Life, go ahead, you will be sacrificing DPS in the name of self healing. That's a legitimate strategy, if the fight has a lot of raid damage, if will be making things easier for healers, and using Shadow bolt when not.
Post by
Rekijan
Is anyone else looking over gear trying to find piece together some nice set they want to aim for?
I did :D and this is what I came up with.
Normal, rep and crafted.
And one can only hope for a legendary
Of course you will probably be doing HC modes so the total set would not make so much sense.
I was wondering if people had done this and/or if you could comment on my first link, might have missed something.
Edit: This is made for my main raiding toon, who is affliction.
Changed to this now.
Changed
Crystal Prison Band
into
Infernal Signet of the Avengers
Post by
AWildmann
Wasn't there a enchant that gave extra intellect to staffs during Wrath? Or was it during BC? I really don't recall if that really helped on balancing staffs and mh+off hands.
Post by
asakawa
Spellpower. Yes. Wrath.
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