Comments on: Marksman 102

By: DoomaGloom

DoomaGloom — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:27:37 +0000

I have a question about the hunters mark.. I have specd 3/3 for hunters mark now;if some 1 else uses there hunters mark and they are not specd into it.. do i have to put my on again or do i get the effect of 3/3 hunters mark regardless of who has it up?????

By: Finalflash

Finalflash — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:13:43 +0000

And so, since many (if not all) raid bosses have hindering DPS environment, it’s best to really sum any form of *maximum* DPS conclusions based from a boss dummy =P (Don’t cheat and use Multi Shot or Volley!).

On a note, had a lock bragging that he did 10k dps on XT-002 Deconstructor in my raid. Like any jealous DPS class, I had a look at recount and oh to my surprise he did most of the damage to the Heart. Lol…

By: Deepfriedegg

Deepfriedegg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:05:25 +0000

@pitmaillet:
Try Quartz. It has a little weapon swing bar which basically shows when your autoshot is about to fire off so you know when to stop to let it fire
@Messi
Posting your DPS on Lady DW doesnt say anything because it is a terruible fight to compare DPS with others. Were you on boss only? How many times you had to burn through the shield on Adherent (Absorbed damage is not shown as damage on meters)? How many times you were MCed and didnt the mage put polymorph on you just two seconds before the MC was about to end? Without this info, any “I did X DPS on LAdy DW” statement is pointless

By: Lovegun

Lovegun — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:33:25 +0000

Thanks for the info about those debuffing pets.

By: Eidotrope

Eidotrope — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:57:39 +0000

@Lovegun
Wasps perform a minor armor debuff. If your raid is lacking a minor armor debuff (which is usually the case if you have no boomkin) and your raid does a lot of physical damage, it might be good all around to have a leveled wasp at the ready.

Worms perform a major armor debuff but using one would require (1) raiding with a tenacity pet and (2) running as BM.

By: Lovegun

Lovegun — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:42:55 +0000

I’m not familiar with any pets that buff armor penetration. The wolf’s howl is the best pure dps ability as far as I know.

By: Spleet

Spleet — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:29:09 +0000

So is a wolf still the best pet for an ArP build or is there another option that might work better? Or if the wolf is still the shazbot furball to take along do you retain the pet build or any modifications there?

By: Peltpunisher

Peltpunisher — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:16:07 +0000

This article is definitely informative. Personally I am using the ArP build and rotation while maintaining the agility gems. I am at 529 from gear and re-gemming to ArP would put me at 849. Taking food buffs into consideration as well as changing to an ArP trinket still always showed a net loss on the spreadsheets (about 200 dps). It may have been the way I was running something. I intend to revisit this again as I am closer to approaching the 800 passive mark from gear. I will be following the comments to see other people’s thoughts and results.

By: Lovegun

Lovegun — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:19:15 +0000

I’m a long time reader, new poster. Forgive the noob-ness of my last post as it was clear to me after re-reading that most people here are aware of femaledwarf.com…DOH!

By: Lovegun

Lovegun — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:46:04 +0000

Another tool I’ve found interesting, and all in all fun to play around with, is the dps simulator at femaledwarf.com. It’s very simple to navigate and allows for character upload directly from wowarmory.com. As this site has to masterfully explained, this simulator shouldn’t be used as a way to formulate how much dps one can expect to do in real-time situations. Rather, it’s a great tool to use to check whether or not a certain piece of gear, gem set-up, spec change will increase or decrease your damage.

That is certainly much cheaper than re-gemming or even re-speccing. When I plugged in my old agility based spec, gear, and gems, then switched the gems to all armor penetration and changed my spec, the simulator showed a 1600 dps increase. I didn’t expect to those exact numbers translated in game. I was however convinced, because the increase was so significant, that I had reached the passive armor penetration level required to make the shift worth while.