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Some help with my boomkin! (stats)
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Post by
Naesstrom
Hey everyone!
I was reading over at the
how to druid
thread some about stats!
I have a boomkin called
Etai
that I got hitcapped finally and I started to replace some of the hit gems with spellpower! at the moment I have around 2k in moonkin form and I still have more gems that I'm going to replace!
In the thread mentioned above tough I get the impression that after hitcapped I should aim for 400 haste rating, since I have only 167 right now I get the feeling that I should focus on that to improve my dps... or should I keep gemming for Spellpower!
Last night in Naxx 10 with the guild I had the following stats anyway:
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So, what should I aim for next?
Post by
murakaz
In terms of gemming, I would stick with spellpower (Runed) gems, and focus on grabbing upgrades that have haste rating until you hit the soft cap. While haste is technically more valuable than spellpower below the soft-cap, said cap is so easy to reach it's better to save yourself the time and effort and just not worry about gemming for haste. You seem to have a fair amount of crit, so you shouldn't worry about losing some of it for haste (on top of about 100 excess hit rating).
Post by
curlymon
I'd like to add something here but murakaz hit every point I would have brought up and probably did so in a less long winded and complicated way then I would have. /cheers
Post by
oberondreaming
You're actually about 2% (25 hit rating) over hit cap (you get 7% from balance of power and improved faerie fire), just looking at your armory. So you can probably swap another gem out right away.
You should also replace your Pickled Egg (which only procs off of heals) with another trinket.
Sundial of the Exiled
should be easy to get. Or you could try to grab
Mark of the War Prisoner
for a huge hit buff which would probably let you replace all your hit gems. Though that might put you over purely on gear.
And you don't have an offhand item in? You could pick up
Ward of the Violet Citadel
(again pretty easily) and that might even be enough to cover all your gems.
On your spec: 3/3 moonglow is a waste, since moonglow is our weakest mana talent. Put two of them in Improved Moonfire. You can probably also drop a point from Nature's Reach and get 2/2 Gale Winds or 1/3 Improved Insect Swarm.
Edit -- Note that even though Sundial and Abyssal Rune look like they share a proc, the two are actually different and can stack and/or proc separately, and don't share an internal cooldown.
Post by
Naesstrom
Thanks for all the replies, yeah I went with the Spellpower gems instead! Bought the
Conqueror's Nightsong Vestments
and added some more Spellpower to that one!
Not sure why my offhand wasn't shown either but I use
Antique Cornerstone Grimoire
for that!
Trinket problem: yeah I know the egg only proc of healing, but until I get the Mark from VH I'll keep it just for the spellpower! Wish I had the
Mithril Pocketwatch
from the brewfest but I wasn't 80 then... is there any other good trinkets out there that's rather easy to get? seems to be a bit few of them!
40 marks for the sundial feels a bit expensive to, might be because I just bough the chest and emptied the entire emblem-pool :D
Thanks on the talent ideas btw, I'll have to see what kind of build I can get together with those changes.
Ok, played with the talent calculator... does
this
look better?
Post by
murakaz
Trinket problem: yeah I know the egg only proc of healing, but until I get the Mark from VH I'll keep it just for the spellpower! Wish I had the
Mithril Pocketwatch
from the brewfest but I wasn't 80 then... is there any other good trinkets out there that's rather easy to get? seems to be a bit few of them!
40 marks for the sundial feels a bit expensive to, might be because I just bough the chest and emptied the entire emblem-pool :D
There is also the
Abysmal Rune
out of the normal ToC 5-man, it should help with your haste shortage. Switch it for the Sundial when you can remain over the soft-cap without it. The Sundial/Rune combo is the best you can get without touching raiding content (even then there aren't too many that are better).
Post by
oberondreaming
Wish I had the
Mithril Pocketwatch
from the brewfest but I wasn't 80 then... is there any other good trinkets out there that's rather easy to get? seems to be a bit few of them!
40 marks for the sundial feels a bit expensive to, might be because I just bough the chest and emptied the entire emblem-pool :D
In terms of "ease" of getting. The sundial is pretty much the easiest thing to get. A few days farming heroics and you should be good.
Alternatively, you could wait til 3.3, when everything will start dropping Triumph Emblems and get
one
of
these
instead.
(Murakaz, he's already got the Rune.)
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