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First off gratz Galen on the stick and guruness, I did it just now.

I have wrist question.

I have Mechanist's Bindings , Deadly Wrists and Thrusting Bands at my disposal.

I have a PvP, a tank and a cat set.

I am thinking Deadly == PvP, Mechanists == Cat and Thrusting == Tank.

Mainly as my tank set is insanely low on hit and I want to fix that.

Opinions?


edit: the XT hard bracers arent an option yet

Edited, Jul 29th 2009 4:36am by Horsemouth

I got the Uld wrists Monday and the Thrusters tonight.

The Uld wrists are better for tank but my hit is that low in my tank set.

But ya those blue wrists are insanely well itemized and a very strong piece of gear.

I won GT before everyone knew how hot it was, I was lucky.

Haven't checked Emerald in a minute.

The Uld wrist does have more goodness and if I wasn't struggling for hit there would be no question.

I'm guessing Emeralds list has hit or expertise rated higher than some others. The hit for threat and exp for mitigation. I disagree as parry hasting is in general a minimal issues with most bosses in Uld as rapid physical damage is rarely the issue. Maybe with Thorim and/or 1-2 other guys is a parry haste melee shot likely to be a tank death.

The stam and agi boost would be better for many droods that have more hit than me tbh. I have as$loads of expertise on my tank set.

I am leaning towards my question being the answer. If I get more hit things on other gear things could change.

I like get opinions as gear rankings exist in a vacuum by nature. Gear and opinions of people I respect do not.

we send in four people. once we port in, two go left and two go right. typically this is me (war), a ret pally, a feral druid and a healy priest. the priest keeps us alive because the influence tentacles have this souped up thorns aura where they deal a % of the damage they take back to their attackers. my job is to just whack the first few tentacles as i pass to drop their disguises then get into the back and kill those tentacles. usually the feral druid will kill the ones i first whack and the ret pally finishes off the rest on his side of the room. then we charge the brain and go ******* on it.

typically we'll have about 20-30 seconds of good dps time on the brain before we have to get out, which means we usually have the illusion rooms cleared in 15-20s. it takes about 3-4 seconds for us to run over to the brain and then we usually play it safe and bug out around t-minus 4 seconds or so. better to leave early than to come out insane.

TY for the Guru.

I've been using Toskks DPS Method lately. It's nice because it is form fitted baby. :P

You put on your gear, get into kitty form, put your stats into the conversion sheet, punch in your talents and any buffs you might have for 10's or 25's and it'll give you a read-out of basic Energy per attack, dps, time on target, etc.

It'll also allow you to chose what tier bonuses you have and trinkets and each thing you change in the conversion sheet will change the ranking of the items for each slot.

So based on your current stats + buffs + tier bonuses + trinkets, you can figure out what pieces will be an upgrade, say if taking a piece will break a tier bonus, you can unclick the tier bonus and check the ranking of the tier piece vs the new piece to see how they compare.

I loves it. :P

I use Mechanists to tank and to dps, but I just randomly switch the enchant on them depending. I have lots of mats heheh.

EDIT: Also, you can use the Toskks Time to Live calculator for bear gear :P

Edited, Jul 29th 2009 12:01pm by Galenmoon

So sad, our legendary now has a spellpower enchant for last nights raid. There have been some discussions in the guild about funding re-enchants on it before and after each raid and making it against the rules for the priest to log out with a SP enchant on it :)

I also got Twisted Visage last night as well as Winter's Icy Embrace which is a slight upgrade over 5/5 T8.5 - and even better - I finally beat our #1 feral druid (there are 3 of us) in a fight :)

I have that hat for mah tank spec.

It looks hideous. I love it. I mean its really ugly. I wear it and it scares children on Azeroth when I am in Northrend.

On a guild note.

We cleared everything before the keepers in Uld10 tonight for the first time.

So happy.

We killed all the Keepers last week. Was the first IC kill for the guild.

Our Guildox 10 man strict ranks are 10 for achievements and 13 for progress for the server now.

I like the 10 strict thing as the GM of a 10 man guild.

edit: spellz

Edited, Jul 30th 2009 5:05am by Horsemouth

I changed my offspec to boomkin so I could be thrown up on FL and actually contribute. I haven't been boomkin since before level 70, and now I have a pretty nice gear set, even if it is resto. I have to say, boomkin is seriously fun, at least to kill quest mobs. I love the 12K crits! Now I need a third spec :( And a place to put all my gear.

Hey Arex I'm a Boomkin. I think I'm pretty decent. Maybe you can rate meh gear and tell me what to fix? I know i need to replace the hit gem on my head pice. I just ogt a few pieces of 8.0/5 gear so that put me way over the cap. I'm missing the 50 spell power to my new legs because I keep forgetting to buy the enchant for some odd reason...

I really really REALLY need a new freaking weapon. I used to have damnation but opted for a main hand/off hand combo. Due to a combo of ****** rolls and the fact that I don't get much play time being in the military, getting a new staff/mace/dagger is a wee bit hard. Oh, or my lock buddy ******** me out of the dagger that drops off of KT and then getting plasma foil later that day...

-side note: Go Go Lazerchicken!!

Alright, things I see that you can change.

You already said you would fix the hit gem in your helm. Go with a 9sp/8hst gem for that socket.

Chest - Replace your hit gem with the 9sp/8spirit gem. And 10 stats if you can afford it.

Legs - Replace your 19 sp with 16 haste gem

Boots - I would put tuskarr's vitality personally since you're still way the hell over the hit cap.

Doing this is going to...

-32 hit
+22 haste
-12 crit rating
+6 spell power
Faster Run Speed

I think my math is correct here on this.

Otherwise everything else is correct. Just try to get to right on 400 or near and around 400 for your haste.

As for your spec.

If you don't need mana regen I highly suggest moving a few points.

Those 3 points in intensity would be better off in Imp IS. Biggest reason is in 3.2 when eclipse is changed you'll find it a better dps increase.

You could also take 2 points from Moonglow and put them into Imp MF. It's a minor dps increase if you find mana isn't an issue.

If you do plan to go into IMP FF you'll want to lose your starfall glyph and pick up the MF glyph.

So, there you go. Thats about it.

We finally downed Yogg 10 man on Saturday after a few attempts. It just seemed to click all of a sudden and on our second time of reaching phase three we had the balance right :) Phase one we had no guardians left standing as Sara was killed, phase two - the three people (Kitty - me, a DK and a Pally) that were going into the portals went nuts on the brain and finished off the brain with plenty of time left on the second set of portals, the people outside were keeping the place clean of tentacles and then phase three we downed Yogg with lots of time to spare :) Once it was done I think all were so relieved and happy that we just stood round talking about it for a good 20 or 30 minutes. I wish we could do as well on our 25 man runs :)

Thanks to all those who have posted tips on how to get him down, bring on hard modes!