By alex
Hey guys! Just wanted to take a few mins to talk about something that seems to be bother a few peeps.
Josh @ Eye for an Eye posted about his mana issues and having to go for Glyph of Consecration to over come this.
Now Glyph of Consecration increases the length and cooldown time of Consecrate by 1 second. Meaning you spam it less often.
Rather than use Glyph of Con. I use Glyph of Seal of the Martyr/Blood. This increases the amount of mana you receive from Spiritual Attunement by 10% while the seal is active.
This little awesome glyph keeps you topped up in fights like Patchwerk where you don’t(shouldn’t) receive much healing. (don’t get me started about random 14k Chain-Heal procs you shamans!!)
Reading the comments about the glyph on wowhead.com it seems no-one agrees and now has me 2nd guessing something that seems to help me keep my mana going.
The only time I ever have to consume a potion is if i’m solo’ing stuff now. In last nights raid for instance we cleared 3 wings of naxx-25 and I didn’t take *ANY* potions – not even health pots.
I’m wondering if I should start carrying around DPS potions for the last 20% of boss fights when I pop wings or when Heroism is up.
I’ll list what Glyphs I’m using later in case you’re interested.
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Last night I was invited in the Naxx as someone dropped out at the last minute.
Once again all that dropped was stupid Protector T7.5 items, but I manged to get to 60 something Emblems of Valor so just purchased my shoulders that way instead.
I did however get 1 loot item:
Aged Winter Cloak
Back
154 Armor
+38 Agility
+57 Stamina
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 43.
Equip: Increases attack power by 110.
Equip: Increases armor penetration rating by 28.
Which is lovely! I had the emblem cloak before so this was a nice crit upgrade for me.
I also got gems fitted to my t7.5 shoulder and legs, and enchanted my new gloves:
Crude Discolored Battlegrips
Hands Plate
1436 Armor
+75 Strength
+82 Stamina
Equip: Improves hit rating by 74.
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 43.
This was the last piece i needed to get me over the hit cap again which is now sitting at 294 meaning I can possibly play with some new boots/belt/neck or something in the future.
I also went for the Massacre enchant for my Axe – controversial? +110 AP is pretty nice!
I’m sitting at 35.1% crit now unbuffed and way over 3k Attack Power.
(In raids fully buffed I’m hovering around 5k AP and 40-45% crit depending on Druids!)
By alex
Hey guys! So we did a 3 wings in Naxx last night and I got some new legs to replace the Staggering Legplates. This meant I was loosing 80 hit rating.
So this meant I was 79 Hit rating off the cap. So it was time to test to see if I had the ghost hit rating.
Off I ran to Ironforge – removed all the gear I had with hit rating on, cleared Re-count and started swinging away.
20 mins later I came back and had a look at the stats:
As you can see I missed 4.6% of the time out of 500 hits. I took this to mean I would need only 5% Hit rating to reach my cap.
So I had limited time, but I threw on all my gear and started plugging away. I was only able to do 100 swings before I had to go to bed, but managed to get the following:
As you can see with 5.73% hit rating out of the 100 hits I had no misses. (I’ll run a more comprehensive test(bear in mind I wasn’t doing any special attacks – it was just auto swing on both tests)
So did I do something wrong? Does Hit rating affect Dodge as well?
Here’s a screenie after the Noth the Plaguebringer fight….4115 DPS! nice!
By alex
OK so thanks to all of you that commented on my last post. Great info there and I’m going to make some changes to my gear tonight. Such a shame you cant remove gems and re-use them later.
I was under the impression that haste was the way to go for Ret due to what I’d read about horde Pallies in TBC, but it appears I was slightly wrong about that. (thanks Tim!)
So I’m gonna swap out all the Haste gems for Strength gems or crit gems.
I’m just over my hit cap so I don’t have a problem there are the moment. (no hit gems but 1 hit enchant on my boots)
I’m still unsure about a few things:
1 – Should I swap the 2/2 Improved Retribution Aura (increases damage done by my ret-aura by 50%) for 2/2 Vindication (reduces targets attributes by 20% for 15sec)
2 – What weapon enchant should I go for? (Josh says Berserking – and is what I’m going to try – Permanently enchant a melee weapon to sometimes increase your attack power by 400, but at the cost of reduced armor. – 20 Infinite Dust, 15 Greater Cosmic Essence, and 10 Abyss Crystal’s DAMN!)
3 – Where have the +Strength Enchants for Bracers and Gloves that I thought we’d see in Wrath? Or am I just stuck with AP enchants now?
4 – Should I pick a slower weapon over a faster one? If either what speed is good?
I’m kinda doing my gord in about this at the moment! Did you guess?
By alex
Just a quick one – 2nd post today – I was talking to a fellow Raiding Ret last night and he asked how my DPS was in raids and to be honest overall its been 2-2.5k. He was shocked about this and said he was putting out 3.2k dps.
I was a little shocked – looking at his gear he has more or less the same as me, and I’d go out on a limb and say I was better geared than him.
Check out his armory link (if its working….) and compare it to mine.
I cant see what I’m doing wrong. I’ve tried reading what I could get my head around here. (Great site for Ret btw)
Can anyone find a spell rotation for me? something that will get me to improve my dps by 1k? Does that even seem possible?
I still have upgrades to come as well – I’m almost exalted with Sons of Hodir – should have that by next week and I’m saving up mats to get the +115 AP weapon enchant unless you recommend I go for something different? (using +85 AP at the mo)
I’m WAY over my hit cap I think (142 is the cap still?) I’m running with 296 (9.03%) Around 4-5k AP in raids 35% odd crit in raids, with 200 odd Haste Rating. (cant remember off hand)
By alex
Hey peeps! So I promised Iandrix that I’d put up what I thought were good builds for level 70 and I thought I’d try to make up something for level 80 as well.
Level 70 Ret Raiding Build
This is the build I’m using Live at the moment for Raiding. As you can see I’ve only put 2 points in Fanaticism. And so far I’ve not had a huge issue with threat so far. Hand of Salvation has saved my butt very well so far! But the threat generation warriors have at the moment is awesome.
Here are some more more builds i threw together..I had a real hard time going for anything nice for the 70 pvp build – I really cant decide if its really necessary…but some survivability would be nice…but then I have full pvp gear but rarely use it!!
Level 70 Ret PvP Build
Level 80 Ret Raiding Build
Level 80 Ret PvP Build
If anyone has any suggestions then by all means link different builds!
Edit: I fixed the 80 Ret PvE build!
