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May 21, 2009, 02:29 PM
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Raid Composition: Knowing your buffs: Critical Strike
Moving on from spell power buffs, we head over to all things crit. That lovely RNG based explosion of damage or healing. Caster Crit buffs on the raid: This is referring to a buff slot where the raid itself is getting the crit. This crit bonus effects healers and caster DPS. I'm going to point out something here: This buff is near-vital. You shouldn't be raiding without it. Not for your DPS, although it's very important to TTW and FFB Mages, but for your healers. Especially your priests, paladins, and resto shaman. A major part of their mana regeneration is tied to their crit. Additionally, with the advent of how valuable Discipline Priests are as tank healers and the amount of pure damage absorption that they provide via Divine Aegis - Spell - World of Warcraft you really need to look at it this way: Even your 10 man groups should have somebody bringing this buff, it's game breaking. There are two sources of this buff to your raid: 1) Elemental Shaman: Elemental Oath - Spell - World of Warcraft Any elemental shaman will have this, it's uptime will be near constant since Elemental shammies entire existence is based upon their ability to crit on demand with Lava Burst. Awesome buff. 2) Balance Druids: Moonkin Aura - Spell - World of Warcraft Again, Balance Druids need to stay in form for maximum damage. Just by staying in Chicken/Owl/Turkey thing form, they will give your casters 5% crit. Bring the player, not the class notwithstanding: Get one of these or the other in each and every one of your raids. Caster Crit debuffs on the target: There are two separate slots for this specific debuff. A 5% and a 3%. Notice that this doesn't help your healers. This is strictly for your caster DPS. I will also point out that these are applied to the target, they are not a buff. 5% chance to crit on a target: 1) Improved Scorch - Spell - World of Warcraft Simple, a fire mage glyphs and casts this once, 5% crit on a target for the raid and it needs refreshed every 30 seconds. Pretty straightforward. This is suboptimal because you really want the mage to just use FFB or Fireball, Pyroblast, and Living Bomb. You don't want them casting this. However, there are some bugs involving their ignite DoT that help soften this blow, although it's unintended from what most information says. In any event, this is who should be maintaining scorch if you don't have an Affliction or Metamorphosis specced warlock. And even then, Meta's ideal for keeping this 5% crit debuff up. 2) Winter's Chill - Spell - World of Warcraft Basically, the frost mage version of this debuff. However, They shouldn't be in your raid. If you have a frost mage in raid and he is doing competitive DPS, that's indicative of two symptoms of why you are probably wiping on Patchwerk: A) Your raid's DPS is very, very low. B) He's a very good mage, but not very smart and needs to be Frostfire Bolt specced. Or at least Arcane because he's gimping himself a TON of damage (like over 1000 dps). 3) Improved Shadow Bolt - Spell - World of Warcraft This is the best application of this debuff because it's off a natural nuke. Affliction locks and Meta warlocks will bring this debuff, however, let's keep in mind that at 25% an affliction warlock starts Drain Soul weaving. Meaning that the only Sbolts coming out of the warlock at that point are going to be Nightfall procs if that. If you read my previous post on spell power, I personally believe there's alot of allure for having a 0/56/15 warlock in your raid because they are giving your casters 5% to crit naturally, 10% of their spell power naturally, and can throw Curse of Elements up if your Unholy DK or Moonkin calls in sick that day. 3% Crit on a target: Yet another debuff that I'll briefly cover because it's pretty straightforward, please keep in mind that this is a flat 3% for everybody, melee and casters: 1) Totem of Wrath - Spell - World of Warcraft The other end of the totem pole? Again, the argument isn't whether ToW is good: It is good from a PoV of strict raid benefit. The problem is that Elemental DPS is based around dropping Searing or Magma Totems. For all the nay-say about Meta/Ruin's DPS, keep in mind that if properly played, your Elemental Shaman and your Meta/Ruin warlock should have similar DPS assuming it's a single-target nukefest and your Elemental Shammy is using Searing. The flip side is that with ToW you also lose the Magma totem in AoE situations and you probably wouldn't have Immolation Aura, either. And on fights like Freya, Thorim, and Sartharion with 3 drakes these are outstanding things to have......We made the determination that ToW sucks, in all honesty, due to its lack of scaling and a simple math exploration. I'm our guild's meta lock. At the time I was affliction, I was pulling about 5K DPS and our Elemental shammy was pulling around 3500.....Well he started dropping Searing and Magma's and I went Meta in Naxx one week. My DPS went down about 500. His DPS went up over 1000. So if you do the math: There was a net gain. It's worth looking at, for sure. 2) Heart of the Crusader - Spell - World of Warcraft We personally use this one. We love our ret pally. His Judgement of Light is straight up broken and we like him to judge. Solid debuff that comes naturally. And did I mention that Judgment of Light is doing about 2500 HPS on top of the Pally's 5K DPS? Tomorrow we will continue with Melee Critical strike buffs and Debuffs! Last edited by Tragik; May 21, 2009 at 04:23 PM.. |
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May 21, 2009, 03:43 PM
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makilélè 80 Undead Warlock Sargeras Euro PvP Guild: Les templiers du chaos Talent Spec: 3/14/54 |
Re: Raid Composition: Knowing your buffs: Critical Strike
that's a nice guide. thank you very much. However could you change that ugly green color which burn my eyes ? ^^. to read your guide I had to select all the text to see it clearly... |
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May 21, 2009, 04:02 PM
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Re: Raid Composition: Knowing your buffs: Critical Strike
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What the hell....lol I don't know how that happened! |
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May 21, 2009, 04:08 PM
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Helixir 80 Human Warlock Suramar US PvE Guild: FEG Profile: WoW Rankings Talent Spec: 0/41/30 |
Re: Raid Composition: Knowing your buffs: Critical Strike
YES that's as clear and well-written a guide to raid buffs as I've seen yet - apart from the green >.< wo it's gone |
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May 21, 2009, 04:18 PM
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Re: Raid Composition: Knowing your buffs: Critical Strike
If a fire mage has imp scorch glyph, they only need to cast scorch once, not twice. |
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May 21, 2009, 04:23 PM
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Re: Raid Composition: Knowing your buffs: Critical Strike
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Please merge the following with the original post. I'm trying to keep this down to 4-5 threads. Thanks! Melee Critical strike Buffs: As we continue, there's one thing I want to point out, these buffs don't only help your melee. Pet classes with melee pets (aka Warlocks, Hunters, and Death Knights) are going to get a percentage of their dps from their pet. As locks, you want one of these critical strike buffs in your raid. If you're running a Demonic Pact build, these are vital to your buff uptime. The sources are relatively limited, as well. 1) Leader of the Pack - Spell - World of Warcraft It's pretty clear, you have a Kitty? You have a Bear tank? You will have this buff. It's a straightforward aura like Moonkin Form. If the Druid is in a Feral form, they provide the buff. 2) Rampage - Spell - World of Warcraft This is the other source of this buff, and it mirrors the proc method of Elemental Oath. The Arms Warrior has to crit, then the raid gets 5% melee and ranged crit for 10 seconds. Please add the following to 3% crit to a target: Master Poisoner - Spell - World of Warcraft Most rogues don't take the talent, however, it does provide the 3% crit debuff and FoK + Poisons can be very effective in applying it in AoE situations. |
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