holy fuck thank you! this is gonna save me money switching back n' forth to test stuff lmao
We've been spamming 5 man heroics (and normal toc) everyday to the point that we basically are just 4 manning it all now. So gotta start running the 10 man ones lol
Well I do epic gems on all my slots just because I do a lot of BGs until the boytoy gets home for heroic runs. I've got the deadly/hateful pieces I can get with honor so I just spend the honor on gems, and one of my static's is a jewelcrafter so he'll make me the gems for free. XDArPs usefulness in Naxx is not nearly as good as it is in Ulduar. Realistically, stack AP/Agi, depending on how you feel (I personally prefer AP on BM and I've managed to stay at a pretty consistent 4.5k average dps), and worry about the rest as your gear gets better. Don't bother with epic gems if you're wearing blues or 200 epics, as you WILL replace them very quickly doing H ToC and heroics regularly, and it ends up being a waste of money.
we didn't do heroics with him yesterday outside of CoS so I'll see how I do in SV spec against him hopefully today.Differing opinions here about haste, but unless white damage is a significant source of your overall damage (which is kind of a bad thing), its not going to help very much at all. Once steady shot is down to 1.5s, which should come naturally and easily off of Naxx10 gear, its a wasted stat, and shouldn't ever be something you're actively striving to get. Honestly, if your GM is saying haste is omgawesome, he is an omgretard. And yeah, even if he isn't trying, 800 dps over your fresh 80 that uses a spec that isn't exactly amazing without amazing gear, he is doing it completely wrong, especially if he is SV.
arcane is on the same timer as ES can't use it in SVSV is easy-button, the rotation compared to MM/BM is mostly the same, with the signature shots being the only significant difference. If you are giving SV a try, biggest thing is to keep serpent sting up, BA whenever, Explosive Shot when its up, Arcane shot when its up, and fill in the blanks with steady shot. Generally I sit there and spam steady shot while I wait for cooldowns, hit that, go back to steady, wait for next cooldown and hit it, steady some more, rince and repeat. Hunter is about rotation, but its rotation is so very easy to get used to.
a lot of the dps questions is based on my static is this: hunter palli shaman mage....I have to out dps the mage...I have to...he's chinese, I can't let him win BWHAHAHAI'd focus a lot less on your DPS right now, as its not going to be stellar off a fresh ding to 80. Instead, accept that its not going to be great and work on getting the gear to make you better. Its not too hard, I did my pally from greens/quest blues to basically full 219/226 (with some 232 and 245 for good measure) in a matter of 3 weeks, and now am in top 5 dps in Ulduar25. Conquest items are freaking awesome, and if you just keep doing a lot of heroics, you'll be rewarded nicely. The gear is trivial at that point, and the biggest thing is mastering the rotation.
Bottom line: EJ good, GM bad.
srly though I like to try to keep up with him or more just cause my static likes to be self sufficient. Being about to 4 man the heroics makes our life easier since we don't have to grap a pickup. So better the dps> the easier it is on the 4 of us.
I am gathering ArP gear though because I find LnL semi-annoying to deal with (and will probably start giving me headaches overtime). Just cause I wanna switch back to MM asap when it seems like it's back to the same as SV lmao