ele shaman reforging vs dps

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10-14-2010, 12:36 AM
zenga

ele shaman reforging vs dps

I've spend about 7 hours on the dummy to try out various gear, gems, etc. As you will know we no longer get the 3% hit from talents, nor does misery from shadow priest or faerie from boomkins helps us. Meaning that for raidbosses we need to go from 11% hit to 17% hit (446 hit rating, draenie 420). However we get a talent that converts spirit (which used to be mp5) on gear into hit. So the resto bracers & belt can help a shitload to achieve that. Those are the only 2 changes I made, I still go with 4 set pieces T10 and the crafted legs. I used to have a cloth or leather piece here and there, but we get a 5% int (spellpower) bonus if we wear only mail. Which put me way over the cap. So reforging i went. But into what ...

I first reforged spirit I didn't need into haste. Then crit into haste. Dps was more or less the same. After very long sessions of nuking the dummy I came up with this:

- only reforge into mastery
- hit/spirit that you have left, reforge into mastery (this was only true for 2 pieces)
- reforged every piece with crit into mastery
- didn't touch haste

I got a 1600 dps increase by this on multiple sessions (from 11-11,5k to 13k). Felt like sharing and wonder what the dps experiences are from other people who reforge in a different way.
10-14-2010, 08:35 AM
Kicksome

Wow Zenga, thanks for sharing. I'll try this out.
10-14-2010, 08:38 AM
Eloxy

pretty much got the same results zenga. Mastery seem to be the way to go
10-14-2010, 08:56 AM
F9thRet

Same here friends. Got Crit down to about 30% and Mastery just at 9%. Figured I would try and take it further today.

Stephen
10-14-2010, 01:04 PM
Toned

Since reforging hit beta I stacked all mastery it's the only way to go.

Every class seems to be focus on these stats Mastery & Haste ignore the rest you'll passively get it from gear lol.
10-14-2010, 01:06 PM
Nejcha

With out touching reforging yet I saw about a 1-2k spike in dps... it's that new lavaburst cool down and EARTHSHOCK fun time. When I can get back on this weekend mastery here I come!
10-14-2010, 01:19 PM
Toned

Ya I had the same results as Nejcha my shamans are doing ridiculous dps.
They're all 6k+GS my pally tank was like 5300-5400 last time I checked wonder if he'll have aggro issues.
10-14-2010, 01:25 PM
daviddoran

Mastery is where its at. Pre patch i was hitting a lot of lightning overload, post patch, its much less, and mastery increases the % proc chance. Maxing out mastery will be a huge dps booster.
10-14-2010, 05:44 PM
Koralon

are you guys suggesting mastery for pvp aswell? like change all the wrathful set pieces to master from crit?
10-14-2010, 08:07 PM
Stabface

Is there a cap on Mastery? Guess it won't be possible to hit it even if there is one.
10-14-2010, 10:41 PM
daviddoran

well for ele shamans, mastery increases your % chance for a proc, so I'd assume that anything over 100% would be a waste of stats, so I'd call that a "cap" of sorts.
10-14-2010, 11:02 PM
zenga

Quote:

Originally Posted by Koralon

are you guys suggesting mastery for pvp aswell? like change all the wrathful set pieces to master from crit?

Hell yeah ... from my pvp gear (4x 251 set piece + 270 hands) and what I can get from honor, no arena gear.

before ...
40% crit
20% mastery

after ...
35% crit
32% mastery

Basically trading in 5% crit for a 12% increased total chance that a spell will go off a 2nd time for 75% damage within the same gcd ... seems like a no brainer to me in pvp where we have no haste.