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August 22, 2007, 06:19 AM
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latifa 70 Undead Warlock arak arahm Euro PvP Guild: Escape Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/40/21 |
Re: Shadow Mastery versus Shadow & Flame
Assuming you're right, then the game mechanics are IMHO not in line with the tooltip description. But hey, I'm not complaining if I get a better deal than anticipated. |
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August 22, 2007, 07:11 AM
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Re: Shadow Mastery versus Shadow & Flame
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I'm not real good at numberz n stuff, but seems to me like, unless you get a whole lot % more added to your SB's, you're still gonna lose out in total damage in the end by losing 10% from all of your shadow dots. Just curious as to how much it would end up. If, say, you average almost 40% of your total damage from SB, 30% from Curse of Agony and 30% from Corruption (for simplicity), when you switch you'll lose 10% each of Curse of Agony's and Corruption's 30% (3%+3% = 6%). So you'd need to get at least 6% more damage to your SB's to make up for it. Ok I guess I agree it's probably not that hard to do once you get 1000+ damage gear. Plus by that time your guild is probably so well-geared you don't have to worry much about pulling aggro with big SB crits (?). But I'm not sure I'd agree that it wins out at around 550 +damage gear. Not unless you're only counting SB, not dots. |
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August 22, 2007, 07:46 AM
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Themorrigan 70 Human Warlock Kil'Jaeden US PvP Guild: The Collective Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/0/0 |
Re: Shadow Mastery versus Shadow & Flame
Relax, we're just talking about the effect on Shadow Bolt. Affliction vs Destruction is an entirely different topic. |
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August 22, 2007, 09:02 AM
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latifa 70 Undead Warlock arak arahm Euro PvP Guild: Escape Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/40/21 |
Re: Shadow Mastery versus Shadow & Flame
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August 22, 2007, 10:31 AM
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Kiralyn 80 Human Warlock Mal'Ganis US PvP Guild: Self Titled Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0.13.58 |
Re: Shadow Mastery versus Shadow & Flame
Yeah, your getting into a much more contested topic thats more of a 41/x/x vs 0/21/40 type conversation. This gets much more involved, and takes into account not only the talents themselves, but a players gear, playstyle, general raid makeup, and needed raid utility. There is a lot of conversation on these boards about that question, including stickied threads about individual raid specs and their pros/cons/gear requirements.
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