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Re: WotLK
Posted by Elisha » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:34 pm
What's your take on the pally changes? The Blessing of Might going from 20% to 50% is a nice change though. I assume that question was to anyone and everyone. If not, sry for jack...

Re: How do you come up with the Gear Score?
Posted by Elisha » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:13 pm
Where's the Hijacked thread smilie when you need one.

Re: How do you come up with the Gear Score?
Posted by Elisha » Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:47 pm
Sorry to bug you again Alex! I have read the ilvl information over and over again and think I have a decent handle on it now. I can really see the difference in whatever calculatio...

How do you come up with the Gear Score?
Posted by Elisha » Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:48 pm
Alex, first off, awesome. Our guild has posted this in our forums as a tool our members can use and it has been well received. First question. I have tried to back into my own scor...

Re: WotLK
Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:34 pm
by Elisha
Forum: Paladin

Anacin wrote:
What's your take on the pally changes?

The Blessing of Might going from 20% to 50% is a nice change though.

I assume that question was to anyone and everyone. If not, sry for jacking your thread.

I did not look through the Ret Tree as well as you have. That 50% sounds awesome! I can imagine the difference this will make for leveling Pally's. I don't want to think about how much 'fun' mine was to level (starting him during a heavily nerfed period). I did go Ret from mid 40's up till 70 and thought I was going to be one of those Pally's that was going to prove everyone wrong and show that they could preform in a raid. I just couldn't get into one to prove it. But that is off topic.

Being Holy, I did look more at the Holy/Prot trees.

I did noticed that Improved Concentration Aura got moved to the Holy Tree (which I think is good). BUT I also noticed that Blessing of Kings and Toughness got moved deeper into the Prot Tree. So far, it looks like it will be more difficult for a Holy or Ret Pally to spec far enough into Prot to reach either of these without sacrificing a lot from their main tree. Honestly, Toughness was more of a way to use points in the Prot tree with the main goal being Blessing of Kings, but now it seems the first several layers aren't as useful to either other tree as much as they were. I know: 'if a tank is doing his job, I shouldn't have to worry about Toughness', but we all know nothing goes as planned all the time and that it is nice to be able to take and hit and survive to continue healing....unlike many of my other healing buddies.

A new talent has also appeared in the Holy tree which allows you to reduce your Holy Light cast time by 1.3 seconds after you crit with Holy Shock. You are able to place 2 talent points here which makes your Holy Light an instant cast after a Holy Shock crit. This may come in handy when a tank suddenly gets low on health. Pop your CD on your free crit, hit them with an instant Holy Shock and follow it up with an instant Holy Light. This should bring them up enough to be able to spam heal Flash of Light to top them off. Not too shabby.

Good topic though Anacin. I would like to hear your thoughts on the new trees as well.

Re: How do you come up with the Gear Score?
Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:47 pm
by Elisha
Forum: Items

Sorry to bug you again Alex! I have read the ilvl information over and over again and think I have a decent handle on it now. I can really see the difference in whatever calculation you are using to reduce the gear score for PVP items. Even though suggested upgrades go off of ilvl, PVP upgrades do not bring your score up. For example: I have the vengeful chestpiece...ilvl 146's I believe and the ZA chest piece, ilvl 128. I score higher when wearing the ZA piece. Last night, I picked up the ZA shoulders (ilvl 128) and replaced my PVP S2 shoulders (ilvl 136) and my score skyrocketed (like 50 gear points).

Now, I am not complaining. For PVE, PVE gear is better. I do not use some 'other sites' (names omitted out of respect to what you are doing) because they do go, as far as I can tell, strictly off ilvl. My gear score has dropped on those sites as I replace PvP gear that was being used in PVE (side note for readers, Holy Pally's can pick up very good healing gear thru PVP...I wont be replacing my gloves or neck any time soon with any PVE stuff....but that is not the point here....that is another discussion entirely).

I do see you brought up resilience in your first responce to me. Can you share just how much PVP gear gets reduced by in your calculation?

Again, great site! Hope you are getting some spare time to actual play they game you are helping us with!