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April 05, 2011, 10:08 PM
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stat priority/play style and gear. afflic
well im at 10.2% haste unbuffed from everything i see that is my goal. other info: 6157sp, 10.04mast, 10.36% crit 200 spell pen and 3.5k resil i see 2 options with play styles shadow bolt vs life drain. sooo sometimes healers are hard to find. ive went the life drain route. do i use fel or demon armor, or switch to demon when focused kinda thing? so stat priority this way is int>mastery>haste>crit (at hit cap and 10% haste) right? enchant wise i have hurricane and lightweave embroidery ive thought about getting the other 1 hander enchant for sp. then mostly the same enchants as other locks. Last edited by curruption; April 05, 2011 at 10:11 PM.. |
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April 05, 2011, 11:48 PM
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Re: stat priority/play style and gear. afflic
Thought it was haste > crit > mastery Afflic mastery is nice but point for point isn't as good as haste because 1 point of mastery doesn't increase mastery by much ( like 0.01% per point of mastery). I haven't done maths for 4.1 though |
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April 06, 2011, 02:22 AM
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Re: stat priority/play style and gear. afflic
@coud I'm afraid affliction as simple as that. 8( AFFLICTION STATS FROM MY UNDERSTANDING: background info: certain amount of haste get us extra ticks onto our DoTs, and going over is excess that does not contribute to our DoTs, our main sourve of damage. 10% haste (with dark intent) gets you one extra ticks on your BoA, 1 extra tick on your corruption, and one extra tick on your unstable affliction. When you reach 12% you get another tick for BoA, but then for the next tick on your corruption is too high to be practical (somewhere around 20% i believe? can someone get the exact number?). Anyway, since the 2% extra haste only gets you a maybe 1500 tick from your low hitting, but long BoA, most locks go for 10% haste. Then after that, we can stack to really whatever our heart desires. So here is the stat breakdown you should have as a PvP affliction lock: -4% spell hit -7% haste (+dark intent gives you the required 10% haste) after that, here is a breakdown of the stats you can stack. pros/cons for stats after you reach 10% haste: CRIT- can get you some quick burst, but is unpredictable. MASTERY- Since in any PvP situation you would DoT's up on multiple targets, and casting less single target damage, mastery can sometimes provide some more hurt. However, if you stack this you will find you are lacking a little bit in single target straight damage abilities like shadow bolt. SPELL POWER AND INTELLECT- straight simple, overall damage increaser. In PvE situations this would help you deal the most damage. However, some people prefer to have their DoTs deal more damage, or to have crits do a little bit of burst damage. Personally, i reached the 7% haste and 4% hit, which imo are both very imp, then I started adding both spell power and mastery, and neglected crit. PS: if you disagree with any of this, I would love to hear your opinion! |
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April 06, 2011, 03:31 AM
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Re: stat priority/play style and gear. afflic
with dark intent i have 13.4% haste now. did i over shoot my goal thinking it was 10% before dark intent? if so... i dont use BoA its less dps for me then BoD, so it would be best to drop some haste get to about 10% haste and add mastery/crit? gem wise i think i can only gain 20 int (planning on it when i replace shoulders but im 3 conq points short this week...) dropping haste increases my fear cast and my rarely used sb. but should not be enough to really make much difference. what about its effects on life tap? or Global CDs? for crit vs mastery. ill probably stack them evenly rather then favor one or the other. does one do better in single target or multi target dps? crit = more crits more variation on damage. im drawing a blank does anything rely on crits to proc for my afflic lock? mastery = higher damage on non crits higher damage on crits? but not as many crits. more constant damage output? EDIT: so with the real question being mastery vs haste i have a plan i think. orange gems are all 20int+20mastery now and ill reforge all crit to haste and leave mastery alone. ill have to wait to replace my shoulders and that will drop 95 haste thru reforged:55 and gem:40 Currently at 12.57 haste so after the new shoulders ill have 11.8% haste. Last edited by curruption; April 06, 2011 at 04:02 AM.. |
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April 06, 2011, 06:39 AM
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Maskirana 85 Undead Warlock Kazzak Euro PvP |
Re: stat priority/play style and gear. afflic
10% haste + Dark Intent! Especially for PvP Crit stacking = Hard Cast Shadow Bolts will benefit more as a filler. Mastery = Drain Life will benefit more as well as UA much more than crit. BoA and BoD are pretty much debatable there are allot more reasons which to use in certain situations. Even tough you use BoD you will still want that haste for arenas. Simple Breakdown: 4%hit and 200spel pen first prio 10%haste second prio (without dark intent) And haste is always sweet in pvp.. do not forget it lowers the casting time! Mastery third prio. You will want to boost your damage a bit.. Crit fourth prio. Crit is always sweet, but simple as that mastery for affli is sweeter than crit. And do the simcrafts if you don't believe me. The End Last edited by masky007; April 06, 2011 at 06:45 AM.. |
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April 06, 2011, 11:25 AM
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Re: stat priority/play style and gear. afflic
IMO you want 10% WITHOUT DI up because against most competent healers, DI will be dispelled in no time. Relying on it is tough. Your stats look great to me, but I personally find it makes most sense to stack mastery, as our dot crits are so tiny anyways, that I would rather have higher consistent pressure across all three+ targets (and I read on EJ that mastery is valued higher). So after hitting 10% unbuffed haste, the hit and spell pen caps, I would say stats go int>mastery>crit>haste. As for armors, use fel as often as you can, for the massive SP buff and then switch to demon when you need the extra healing. I'm a very big fan of drain life over bolt, not only for the healing aspect, but because in the current World of Meleecraft, there are a kajillion interrupts, and if you have to cut the cast of drain life short, you at least get a tick or two, whereas if you cut your bolt cast, you get nothing out of it. Just my thoughts. |
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edit: woot just got jc up for more int.
