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Attack power vs ArP in 3.3?
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Does anyone know what the Atk power cap is before diminishing returns start to beat this stat like a government mule? Last I heard it was around 6k. Raid buffed I'm hitting around 6500 atk power before procs and have been shifting my way towards armor pen and now push 34% ArP. I've noticed a lot more of the items in the T10 dk set have ArP on them and I'm wondering if anyone thinks it will be worth it to start gemming for ArP (as blood atleast) with the new tier of items coming out?
The new math for this is stating that at
extremely
high levels of gear (3600 Strength, 50%+ crit, etc. unbuffed) that ArP very, very slightly starts to beat Strength. This gear level is, as of yet, unobtainable given the limited loot we've seen from Heroic ICC lists. It may be obtainable by Cata, but ArP will be gone then so that's a moot point.
The problem is that AoE takes a massive hit with too much ArP since our AoEs are almost all magic based (the exception being HS, but that's a cleave, really). With exactly one fight (Festergut) being one target for the full duration in ICC, AoE is still going to be a fairly strong mitigating factor against ArP in the current raid content.
Also take into consideration the 12.5% nerf to ArP's effectiveness from 3.2 and the general consensus is that it's not worth gemming for. Stack it on gear, sure, but gem Strength.
EDIT: to reinforce Italiandk's mention of the 6200 AP mark, that 6200 "magic number" was pulled when Ulduar was still being theorycrafted for prior to 3.2's nerf to it and prior to Blizzard's ArP release on its mechanics. The number was never confirmed nor was it mathematically proven after the formula for ArP became available so the 6200 "magic" can (and should) be ignored.
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I think 2.6k strenght would be obtainable with ICC heroic gear (atm i'm sitting at 2.2k with only 1 ilvl258) but 50% crit ofc, no but the real problem is what you say in the quote below:
!@#$, I did write 2600. It's supposed to be 3600.
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Am I the only one that is gonna mention that there is no such such as Attack power diminishing returns? there is however DPS stats scaling in comparison to attack power...
There's not a cap on it per se but there is a point where your other stats blow passed it so far it's not even funny, like the ArP soft cap.
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