Saturday, 10 January 2009

The need roll is a 10 sided dice right?

I've been trying my new spec out a little bit and I have to say I'm pleased with the results, replenishment seems to be up most of the time, though I need more evidence to prove that's all my doing, my WWS from a 25 person Vault of Archavon had me with replenishment up for all but 14 seconds of the fight. We did also have a shadow priest keeping it up, but with 19 people with mana bars in the raid its unlikely that the priest's replenishment would have overlapped onto me too much, still I shall get a record form when I'm the only replenisher in a group, I just need something to fend off the ret pallies from my heroics!

Whats also of note is that my dps was slightly over 2600 which is a healthy 400 more than my last heroic Vault of Archavon, that's almost the difference between having my pet alive or dead! My gear hasn't improved vastly in the 4 days between the raids (thanks in part to my losing the roll on
2 parts of heroic T7 to another one of my guild's hunters) so most of that dps boost must have come from the spec changes, which almost makes me feel better about not having trap mastery anymore!

Over the 3 min 21 second fight I had expose weakness fall off me 9 times, it has a 7 second duration so it potentially could have dropped off 28 times, so with 2/3 talent points its giving me a good rate of uptime. However it could still be improved, I might try using 3/3 for a while, at least until my crit gets up a bit more more. That requires me to win rolls, which I've systematically failed to do on anything bar greed rolls
, all my gear is either boe, faction loot or won when there were no other hunters/shammies who also needed it, bad luck can't last forever though, I'll find something nice one of these days!

On the subject of my guild, well there has been no guild raiding since my first night in Naxx a week ago, and we have been hemorrhaging members since then, since a week is a long time to go without raids apparently. Anyhow we are going to be merging with another guild soon, hopefully this will result in a mutually beneficial situation and everyone will get raids/groups more easily. That's if it doesn't result in a bit of a power struggle between the 2 guild leaders who are suddenly sharing power, to be honest I haven't know my guild leader long enough to know what he's like, let alone the new one that will be coming along.

That was a very, very self-centered post, and I apologise profusely, however an apology won't stop me pressing that publish button so y'all gonna have to live with it till tomorrow!

1 comments:

Jong said...

Replenishment is great!... or so my healers say...I don't even know what it really does, but they like me for it.

gl with your new guild and thanks for the cat tip.