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July 03, 2009, 07:37 PM

#21 (permalink)

Drakkula

Character Info
Drakkula
80 Undead Warlock
Akama US PvP
Guild: Economic Collapse
Profile: Blizzard Armory
Talent Spec: 3/13/55

Re: Meta Gems

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Originally Posted by PiggySmalls

In the next major content patch the epic JC gems are being altered,

Patch 3.2.0 (PTR): "...we will be removing the prismatic quality of the jewelcrafter-only Dragon’s Eye gems. Like other gems, they will have to match the socket color to receive a socket bonus. When this change occurs, players with qualifying jewelcrafting skill will be provided a yet to be determined amount of Dalaran Jewelecrafter Tokens as compensation."

Source, MMO-Champion BlueTracker - Upcoming Jewelcrafting Change

WOW lame

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July 04, 2009, 11:36 AM

#22 (permalink)

Meankeb

Character Info
Meankeb
80 Human Warlock
Khaz Modan US PvE
Guild: Virtue
Profile: Blizzard Armory
Talent Spec: 0/13/58

Re: Meta Gems

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drakkula

WOW lame

LOL...they did it because there is no comparable crafting skill that does anything close to being able to primsatically socket something.

Back on the topic, the ability for DoT's to now crit, and some comments Ghostcrawler made in the recent Q&A about letting Haunt crit scale to 200% make the +21 crit/+3% crit still the top choice (even pre-fix)

...Now they just need to start releasing some new Metas, to go along with the purples on the way.

July 04, 2009, 03:02 PM

#23 (permalink)

dyson

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Dyson
80 Human Warlock
Scilla US PvP
Guild: Eden
Profile: Blizzard Armory
Talent Spec: 0/13/58

Re: Meta Gems

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agromenix

I've seen the recommendation for Chaotic Skyflare Diamond before, too, but here's why I can't quite convince myself to gear it right now: at 1770SP unbuffed in my gear that keeps me hitcapped, I'd have to drop 2 Runed Scarlet Rubies plus the 25SP gem to add back in the Chaotic Skyflare and the 2 blues required for activation.

So I'd lose not just the 25 SP--but 19*2 = 38 more SP, for a total loss of 38 + 25 = 63 SP just to gain that 3% crit damage bonus. Pretty sure that while it's true that the 3% crit damage is better than the 25 SP, 3% crit damage is not better than 63SP.

Looking at the Purfied Dreadstone, then I would only be losing an extra 7 * 2 = 14 SP for a total loss of 25 + 14 = 39 SP. Without doing math or simulation, I'm not convinced (yet) that re-gemming just for that bonus will boost my DPS further. It seems a bit more situational: that is, if you have a choice for your next gem, and are already gemming blues/purples, then yes, going with the Chaotic Skyflare would be better than the 25SP, all things being equal.

Besides, I spend way too much money at the AH anyway....

Actually because of the way things scale, 3% extra crit damage is actually 9% more of the crit damage. Even if the extra 9% damage only occurs a quarter of the time which is VERY conservative , what amounts to an on average 2%+ extra dps boost is nothing to sneeze at. See the prior posts in this thread.

In any case, also as has been gone over in this thread before, it also depends on the amount of spell power you have base. The more spell power you have as a base, the less adding a fixed amount of spell power helps versus upping the damage by a %. If you have 1770 SP unbuffed, your gear is pretty poor right now but as soon as you get some decent gear fleshed out, for sure the balance will tip more definitely over to the 3% crit meta.

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