Post by reallydead
Something here just doesnt seem right. aside from missing some epic gems(cost issues) am i even gemming this shaman correctly? i know im way over hit cap, and i honestly dont know how that happened. literally i just logged in one day and noticed i was over 600 hit rating. i'm not sure how i should gem this toon. my DPS isnt bad atm (about 4k single target) but i feel the constructive criticism of this forum has never let me down. tear me apart, spec, gems, anything.
id like to bolster my DPS as best i can.
Armory*edit* forgot armory linkage
Post by reallydead
Detthought i posted the link...?
Post by Gnub
Start by swapping out the 2 hit-gems at least.
Another good step to getting rid of hit is probably swapping out one of your trinkets (if you can, get the Emblem of Frost one:
Herkulm War Token), should be a good upgrade.
Post by reallydead
Yes, 677 hit rating is out-of-the-ballpark too high. Dump those +hit gems ASAP. In addition, 13 Expertise (3.25%) is way too low. You need 26 Expertise (or 6.5%)--gem that instead of hit.
You might also swap your arcanum when you get the chance--that resilience is doing nothing for you in PvE whereas you could use
this one with crit instead. Your meta gem also wouldn't have been my first choice but 42 AP isn't too bad either.
Your spec looks fine. The point you have in reverberation sometimes gets moved around but it shouldn't be any big difference. However, I would suggest you dump your Lava Lash and Fire Nova glyphs in favor of their
Windfury Weapon and
Stormstrike counterparts. Lava Lash is a relatively small portion of our DPS and with a talented Fire Nova its cooldown is plenty short enough already if you are using the other abilities in the priority system effectively.
You mention cost issues as your reason for not using epic gems. In case you didn't know, you can purchase raw gems for emblems (20 per straight red/yellow/blue or 10 per cross-color gem) and also for honor points (10K honor per gem regardless of color). That can greatly reduce the cost of epic gemming.
Edit: When in doubt, gemming pure AP is good. There is debate between gemming AP and gemming haste but to truly determine when that is best for you would require you to sim it yourself.
thank you! this is exactly what i was looking for.