Comments on: The New BM on Patchwerk

By: Morobir

Morobir — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:33:01 +0000

Ok, here’s something to think about w/regard to using mult-shot in your rotation. If you’ve specced 3/3 Cobra Strikes , then 60% of your arcane, steady or kill shot crits result in two guaranteed crits for your pets, which in turn proc ferocious inspiration and a chance of frenzy. Multi-Shot doesn’t count toward Cobra Strike procs.

So, Cobra Strikes proc gives:
2 pet crits @ double damage
proc or renew of FI
possible proc of frenzy

Given that, are the facts that each use of Multi-Shot costs more mana and is one less opportunity for Cobra Strikes to proc enough to counter-balance the marginal dps gain from Multi-Shot itself?

If your rotation is roughly
Arcane->Multi->Steady->Steady->Arcane->Steady->Steady->Steady (repeat)
Then that multi is using up 12.5% of your opportunities to proc Cobra Strikes.

By: Amava

Amava — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:45:05 +0000

@Adamantite – Does your pet die consistently on Heigan’s one phase or the other (pew-pew phase, or dancing phase)?

If the pet dies during pew-pew phase, talk to your tanks and your cleansers. The tanks might be positioning themselves in the middle of the moving safe zone, which puts Hiegan in the back end of the safe zone, thus putting your pet in the fire. So tank repositioning might help. Additionally, if you do not have points in Improved Mend Pet, you might need some love from the players who can cleanse your pet.

Communication with the other players in your raid is full of win, so share your thoughts with them and see what they think. Even more points if you do that communicating on your guild forums, rather than bogging down the team with pet micro management details during the raid itself.

If the pet dies during dancing phase, I’m not sure what changes to make, other than running just a smidgen faster than you visually think you need to since there’s lag between when the fire exists and when it animates on your screen. I’ve found my survivability increased incredibly when I started running what feels dangerously close to the fire in front of me. I’d assume your pet will have the same benefit.

By: Kaleanon & Sooba

Kaleanon & Sooba — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:19:10 +0000

@Rilgon

At least you get to do that; my mic has been busted for a bit, so I get to watch Sooba croak from the stupid disease while the healers do the dance.

By: Rilgon Arcsinh

Rilgon Arcsinh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:33:08 +0000

@TEJ My pet dies on Heigan.

Are your healers removing the disease? That’s what gets Ayamiss the most is that damned disease (and being MM there’s jack-all I can do about it, aside from screech at healers).

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By: Grindurbonze

Grindurbonze — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:27:32 +0000

Ah, ok. I do that kind of thing ALL the time. Just happened to be doing some side-by-side nit-picking.

By: BRK

BRK — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:06:39 +0000

Is there a reason you still have the stam&agi on your trousers?

Forgetfulness.

Fixed.

/grump

By: Grindurbonze

Grindurbonze — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:46:56 +0000

@BRK

Is there a reason you still have the stam&agi on your trousers?

By: Adamantite

Adamantite — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:17:05 +0000

@TEJ My pet dies on Heigan.

By: Shootr

Shootr — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:36:36 +0000

oh, also…

3. the reason i didnt break 5k on patch is because my mouthbreathing self forgot to equip my mammoth cutters until about 2/3 of the way through…