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All haste and no Crit makes me sad...
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As Mages are we supposed to now stack haste over Crit? Since hitting Northrend i have watched my crit drop every lvl. I have been searching for decent gear with +crit but it seems to be lackluster at best. Anyone else finding this annoying?
ps. frost mage.
it really depends on your level. Haste is alright for 5-mans/leveling but once you hit 80 you'll find gear that just wracks the crit chances up. My mage still is lacking on full 80 gear, but hopefully it'll start getting much better as i continue to bust his ass along the trail of gear. However, there is something highly amusing about having icy veins popped and a shammy in the group drop heroism and throwing FBs at 1.3 seconds.. god.. even with lower overall damage, that's just sick.. lol. (i did this in my frost/arcane levelling spec at 78 in HoL... i wish i'd screen shotted the toolbar icon for FB when that showed up. LOL)
Once you hit 80, haste becomes less important (but not obsolete) and crit becomes absolutely necessary for raids and dungeons etc. I, however, found that for levelling, haste is pretty key for taking down enemies quick. especially if you're a FFB mage. dropping an FFB from 3 sec to 2.7 is huge.
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For targets one level above you, you need 5%, and two levels requires 6%. As a result, all the hit you need for heroics is 6%, or 3% if you have elemental precision. The big jump happens when mobs are 3+ levels above you. This occurs before you hit level 80, and when raiding. Raid bosses will always appear as level (skull), and are scaled to be considered 3 levels above you. The amount of hit you need to be capped on these bosses is a whopping 17%, or 14% for mages with elemental precision (just precision after the patch today). The rating required at 80 for that 14% is 365.
that is, unless you're a draenei.. that extra 1% for heroic presence racials is huge. my hit rating is crap (i think i have 70 right now) but that 3% from EP and 1% for my racial makes a gigantic difference. I think that needing less hit for raids will be great cause it gives me chance to raise my crit% higher than most other mages will be able to with equivalent gear (cause of enchants and gems).
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