Comments on: Ask Zaltu

By: Kansin

Kansin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:36:27 +0000

Do you have numbers to back that up your comment?

Have you tested your claims? Or using someone else’s well documented research to make those claims? The statistical models and empirical evidence shows you are wrong. There is no cap you must meet to be successful.

Excluding HAT, a large portion of the highest DPSing rogues from wowwebstats are under the poison cap.

The value of hit when calculating DPS is different depending on how much you have and your spec. Point for point, hit is worse than agility regardless of the hit level. With mutilate, it is nearly half again as good until the yellow cap, but only just slightly better until the poison cap.

But the word “cap” isn’t a “you must hit the cap to be effective”, but “going past this value, it falls off in usefulness.”

Go play with the spreadsheets, then spend some gold and play with the test dumbies.

The best part about numbers is they don’t lie.

By: Dosequis

Dosequis — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:30:00 +0000

On another note, what do you think about broken wintergrasp lawl.

By: Dosequis

Dosequis — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:38:44 +0000

Not gearing for a single stat is dumb, if you don’t just throw random gear on becauses its better in certain things, and you end up with a hit rating of like 155, it doesnt matter how much agility you have if you can’t hit the target. Rogues do white damage, and white damage fastly, if your missing half of your white hits, then your dps will suffer.. Now I/Zaltu isnt saying ohh HIT is the only thing you need to worry about, obivously, you need to balance out your stats, but there is a minium rating you need to be at in order to respectfully PVE raid.

Heres a thought for you, you can get a 400+boost in dps, and loose all your hit rating, and guess what? The 400+ boost in dps, becomes a -100, -150 LOSS in DPS, cause you arent hitting your target enough.

By: Kansin

Kansin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:49:54 +0000

Gearing for any single stat is dumb. Making broad statements “gear for hit until cap” is a good way to poorly gear people that don’t understand balance.

Hit is good. But so are agility, attack power, crit, haste, and strength.

Instead of gearing for hit, gear for what gives you the biggest boost in DPS. With well researched statistical models, this is not hard. Use the spreadsheets. The resources are there to actually gear yourself for the best DPS possible with your given gear. Use them.