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T9 Itemization for feral DPS
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It seems that T9 is designed to be more useful for bear tanking than cats. I suggest there should be 2 different sets for ferals. One for cat and one for bear. Now its more like hybrid armor which isnt that bad but someone prefer pure DPS stats. And I always tried to combine gem to activate meta and has as many socket bonus as possible. But i would like see more red gems in T9.
How is t9 not 'pure dps' ? I'd go as far as to say it's more kitty friendly than bear. The only reason I could see ANYONE saying it's not 'pure dps' is because of the lack of arp perhaps .. but not every high end kitty goes for cookie-cutter spec and gems arp.
T9 has more than enough agility to keep me happy : )
As for my opinion .. depends what you have access too. I'd personally stick with Helm / Chest / T8.5 and go with legs / shoulders / gloves T9. Purely to keep T8's amazing 2-set bonus.
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Planky
On a personal note, I despise the term "Cookie Cutter build".
Those builds are placed and discussed on these forums for a purpose. *To Max your DPS*
The reason so many choose to stack ArP is because after a certain gear level, it greatly surpasses Agility *Point for Point* in terms of DPS.
The math has been done so many times on these forums to prove this. So by ignoring those "Cookie Cutter" ways, you are not only gimping yourself, but also your guild.
I personally choose to use EJ.com and other various tools to find *My personal Maximization* (I say personal because technically speaking BiS gear piece for piece is extremely difficult to aquire all of, thus the list of best gear will not be the same for everyone) to be the absolute best player I can be. I'm still toying around with pieces of T8-9 to get something that feels right, but it does seem to be getting harder to stay above 40% ArP while maintaining an acceptable amount of exp/hit.
Ehh, gem arp .. can't really go wrong tbh. thus it's cookie cutter. Seen a terrible amount of poor geared ferals on my realm who are pushing mid 2k's simply because they stacked arp + banner + incisor or w/e.
Regardless, no not 'every' person 'gimps' their dps by not gemming arp. Check my post history to see a thread I made requesting a little more info on the matter. After testing, I came to the conclusion that 710 arp gets beaten by my 3k agi 72% crit and almost 13k ap. I beat every other 'arp' druid in my guild. So no, I respectfully disagree with your generalization of 'gimped my dps and guild' just because I chose to got a different path. With that being said, I know what EJ says is generally correct .. I know arp is 'the best' but in my case it is not. Now weather this is due to rotation or the way I handle fights I have no clue .. but it does the job day in day out.
So anyway, my apologies if the term 'cookie cutter' came out wrong. Was not my intention for it to be perceived in that way ... but no use now : )
( Apologies for the off-topic bit )
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Heckler
( Apologies for the off-topic bit )
I don't gem ArP either. I've been discussing it
here
; of my 2 reasons, one has basically been proven wrong, or at least, unimportant (thanks to the pros for that); but the other is still true. ArP gemming doesn't seem to be the
proper
(max dps) thing to do unless you have
Grim Toll
,
Mjolnir Runestone
, or a VERY (700ish, up for debate) high amount of passive ArP on your gear. According to
Nijiax
/ EJ, the magical number where ArP overtakes Agi in terms of point-for-point DPS is around 950 ArP. If you can get over this without a trinket proc, it's probably the right thing to do. If you can't, you should probably keep gemming Agi until you pick up a Runestone or Grim Toll.
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Nijiax
T9.6 wins on raw stats alone. 2pc T8.5 bonus is only worth 40 EPM.
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