Does anyone out there know of a handy way to link or embed bits of spreadsheets - especially Open Office ones - into blogger posts? Because it would be really handy. I just finished comparing the gearset in this post to one that swapped the T9 chest and gloves for the crafted chest and the leather gloves from the previous post. According to femaledwarf, the 4pc T9 bonus beats out the increased armor pen gearset by about 66 DPS. This leaves me in a rare condition of indecision, because 600 AP for a Marks hunter's pet seems like an underwhelming bonus, while all that armor pen on the other gearset seems awesome. Heck, I've got more armor pen in my current gear than my non-heroic BiS gearset has, and my current stuff is all kinds of out of date. It really seems like I should be wearing the heavy armor pen stuff - it is all the rage, right? And that T9 bonus is pretty bad. But still, the spreadsheet thinks the bonus is worth it. Mysterious!
Anyway, apologies for the short, fairly contentless post. I have been meaning to mention the "stutter run" for a little while. Stutter running is a technique to squeeze a few more auto shots out of movement-heavy fights. A good example of when it's useful is legion flame on Jaraxxus. A lot of people tend to run continuously for the entire time they have the debuff, but the fire only spawns every couple seconds. So if you watch your auto shot timer, you can move out of the first fire that drops, wait for an auto shot to fire, then move again. You can use this when repositioning around the moving worms in beasts, moving out of the way of predictable boss AoE, so on and so forth. It's not really complicated or tough or anything, but it's something you can do to try to get a little more damage out of times you're forced to move.
If you're wondering why I haven't been putting as much time into the blog for the past couple weeks, it's because I've started a new job, and the hours are pretty long. Hopefully I'll get into more of a rhythm and resume writing posts worth reading!
I found the same exact thing with my testing. 4pc is 66 more dps than the supposedly BiS chest and gloves.
ReplyDeleteBut of course that 66 more would go away if your pet ever were to die during a boss fight. Which does still occasionally happen to me if a tank isn't fast enough to move the worms out of poison.
If nothing else you could take a screenshot of the spreadsheet and drop the image in. I've seen that done before.
ReplyDeleteI think you can't embedd things like spreadsheets into free blogs. They wan't your cash before you start that :)
Yeah, you're probably right. Darn it! I need some sort of way to post about how I compare gear sets, which involves (omfg so nerdy) spreadsheets. Maybe a download link or google docs or something...
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