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Feral Cat. how much Haste?
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Post by
jemaris
I'm guessing you mean for PvE as your build / glyphs suggest so... Maybe try
here?
& click on gems? (maybe check out the glyph section too).
By no means a kitty expert (main is resto / cat), but was my understanding if it's a red socket bang a pure agility gem in it.
Doesn't answer your haste question I know. maybe things have change priority-wise since the guide was written? There's a thread not much further down here that suggests with Tier 13 bonuses haste is pretty good right now.
I'd gem pure agility in the relic & I'd get rid of the orange gem in the cloak as your not even matching the socket bonus by doing so. Pure agility gem would get the bonus.
Belt... Lose the stats & pure hit gems.
Personally I never gem purely for +hit (even on my DPS caster toons) & if the gear I've got doesn't bring me to cap, I use reforgelite addon to help me out. Not perfect but it's decent. I never socket more than 2 +hit gems on my whole set & would be agility/hit not pure hit.
Askmrrobot is a good pointer for gems/reforges also. Not saying it's perfect but it's a very good pointer to optimising your gear, for gems in particular & makes sure you are hitcapped etc.
Post by
chelgoth
I completely agree with jemaris.
For sockets, the best way to go would have to be:
Red: pure Agl
Orange: Agl / Haste
Blue: Agl / Hit
Prismatic : pure Agl
(any color gem can go into a prismatic socket just fine, no reason to use Nightmare Tears and the like.)
Final note - According to your armory, you have too much expertise; you only need 26 to soft cap.
Final final note - as for haste, it's roughly even with crit and mastery in value. Go with whatever amount you feel most comfortable with.
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144872
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Post by
curlymon
how much Haste is appropriate
You can never have enough.
As far as slots are concerend...
The only time you will ever match yellow or blue socket is if the bonus is equal or greater than 20 agi.
Otherwise its
always
red.
Just to add to this, he means 20 Agi
per
non-red gem on that item
.
Edit: Foley, I'm really liking the Val T7 poly. My favoritie full set with helm and the only time I've ever happily worn a helm that was more then a headband.
Post by
ducksaucer
Everyone who has commented here is more or less right. Non of them really provided any numbers.
What you're aiming for is the 20% haste mark which will allow an extra rip and two extra Rakes.
a 20% mark is around 2563 or something like that, forgot, been a while.
As for gemming, always go straight Agi, 50agility = around 208.3 straight dps increase for us.
With that said, you can definitely see why it's a boss stat to stack over any other kind of gems.
Unless the socket bonus is a 30agi, you forget about it.
Here's my character. I need to go to work. I'll comment more later.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/magtheridon/Powerups/advanced
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Post by
alexko9
For haste, if you are going haste (I do mastery for PvP, which is still pretty viable in PvE, but if you're used to haste don't try it, you will cry from the low amounts of energy) then just go haste all the way. But remember sockets must always be red gems unless the socket bonus is +20/30 agility, and only requires one none red socket to be matched to get the socket bonus. But also don't forget to hit your hit cap! And expertise is not needed at all, as you should always be behind your target spamming shred.
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144872
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Post by
alexko9
And expertise is not needed at all, as you should always be behind your target spamming shred.
Also untrue.
Mobs cant parry from behind, but they can most certainly
dodge
your attacks.
I dont also dont find it very funny at all to spend 50 energy on swipe just to have it miss 80% of the targets. You dont get an energy refund if swipe doesnt land.
Bad advice is bad.
Well the expertise cap is 195, there is always a piece of gear that will get you to expertise cap as a kitty, but you never reforge/gem for expertise as a kitty unless there is no piece of gear on you that has it, which is very unlikely.
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Post by
cparle87
haste>>>>>>>>>>>>>>crit>mastery
Okay, I consider myself a pretty good feral, but I'm confused. When Cataclysm came out it was mastery > crit > haste to my knowledge. In 4.2 some changes were made, I'm not sure which, and people now said mastery > haste > crit. When did some other change make it become what just said?
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986144
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Post by
cparle87
So it's cap hit and expertise, then haste > crit > mastery as of right now?
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Post by
Thror
His armory link is in his signature, and you can easily find his logs if you know how to search for the best rated ferals on WoL...
Post by
Arazyal
All substats are almost even -- hit and expertise are really only even needed for AoE. None of you should be answering theorycraft questions based on the fact none of you can give anything accurate except personal opinion.
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