This weekend we ran into 10-man Ulduar to clear through to the Keepers and set up for some attempts at Yogg-Saron next weekend (hooray for raid ID extensions!).
Its been a few weeks since the last time I was in Ulduar. In that time, I’ve picked up the Dexterous Brightstone Ring (35 Emblems of Triumph) and the Sparkling Onyxia Tooth Pendant (Onyxia Head turn-in) and done some re-gemming (Aldriana’s spreadsheet says to gem for AP).
I like Deconstructor as a good dps test. Much like Patchwerk, its a melee-friendly fight. We get to stand still and dps, only shifting targets when the Heart drops.
On most Ulduar 10 runs, I had been finishing at somewhere between 5500-6200 dps on that fight, depending on which raid buffs I had at the time and how many times I got the Light or Gravity bomb. I raid with a typical Assassination spec, and raid buffed I have about 5000 AP.
This weekend, though, I did just shy of 7k dps on Deconstructor. Now, there’s no way that my two gear changes accounted for a 1000 dps increase. Unfortuntely, I didn’t have combat log parse to look at for this run. I can only assume, though, that the Envenom buff played a significant part in that increase.
Thanks Blizzard!
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Is the “gem for AP” vs. “gem for Agility” one of those eternally raging debates, like “less filling” vs. “tastes great”? I’m lucky to be doing a lot of 25 man raiding these days. In limited experience, it seemed like my DPS scaled better when I was gemmed for Agility than for AP. I guess things might be a little different if you’re doing primarily 10 man content and don’t enjoy multiple paladins in the group giving you might and kings.
You can always have kings now with the drums, thankfully. I haven’t played my rogue very much since 3.1 came out, but I saw a 500-700 dps increase in my mostly T7 plus some BoEs. Very nice, glad I could still make it as an assassin.
I dnt have a blog so I usually just comment what I did on my favorite blogs today was fantastic I had a friend 71 dk run me thru sm and RFD then she showed me the highest point in wow and I got a nice pic of her jumping off of the gates of ironforge then we did some dailies so all in all a great day of wow and nice break from all the questing 😀