Thread: PvP Stats rating for Warlocks
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Old May 31, 2009, 10:44 PM   #6 (permalink)
Crescendo

3.1 Re: PvP Stats rating for Warlocks
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Originally Posted by Belthezor View Post
I just respecced from affliction to destro for pvp. Is sp>crit for destro pvp? Any "cap" or goal for crit?
Before I had started spending my honor points, I did briefly look the gear of top destro warlocks on:
World of Warcraft Arena Ranking | SK Gaming

Here are some observations:

- +crit PvP pieces (over the +haste pieces) are almost always used.
(crit is useful in PvP for the same reason defense is useful for tanks in PvE - an exceptional RNG and that's the end --- as a result, resilience is important).

- they mostly don't gem for crit.
. The most usual gemming is offensive+defensive
(like the gem 9 spell power + 8 resilience). Spell power + something can't be wrong ^^
. some of them have more offensive gems (like jewelcraft +32 SP)
. a few have a majority of defensive gems
(like the gem 8 resilience + 12 stamina)

- typical total resilence is 800 (range 600-950)

- typical hit is around 130 (but having 100% chance to hit rather than 95% is not very useful if you are not well geared already, and die all the time)

- typical spell penetration is around 130 - but note that much of this comes from cloack enchant + arena weapons (wand and offhand) ; several lower rated warlocks (#300 ...) have 0 spell penetration.

- enchants:
. must have: Inscription of Dominance, Arcanum of Dominance and Sapphire Spellthread
. the rest is spell power in majority safe for one or two enchants


* Trying to find non-honor gear for PvP is an headache ; I guess the most useful would be the tailoring blues. I don't know if it is more useful to gem/enchant defensively if half of your gear is still PvE for instance.
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