BiS CM Gear for enhance shaman
Good morning/afternoon/evening! I'm an enhancement shaman with 5 realm best feats of strength, and I'm looking to get more! I also boost challengemodes for gold, and I am looking to get better gear for myself. Here is a link to my armory: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/argent-dawn/Addyz/simple
In terms of trinkets, i already have Pajeets, Blademaster and Lucky coin, which I use. I've identified some others which I'd like to get. I'd love to get the Haste/Mastery trinket from Imperator Mar'gok, and i pretty much need the soul capacitator trinket from Socrethar.
The other thing i'm looking at is getting baleful gear. I want to know what the best stat weights are(for instance, on blood DK if you go full baleful for DPS it should be pure multistrike). Should I go pure mastery, pure haste, 50/50, more mastery, more haste etc. This is all a long term goal to try and increase my DPS in cms.
I'd also love to know, Pajeets or Captive Micro abberition(mar'gok trinket).
Thanks very much :)
Posted Nov 28, 2015, 8:34 AM UTC
Challenge Mode BiS list
I've already got links to that, but it doesn't show baleful gear, and the blood DK and hunter ones are outdated. (Blood DK for best runs should be mult/crit or pure multi from baleful, hunter should be haste/mastery not crit/mastery)
They also don't show the imperator trinket, which can be better than pajeet in certain situations. I've already achieved 5 of the realm bests, which, while not the best times, i'm pretty proud of! I'm looking to complete the last ones and get better times, which is why I want my DPS to be even better!
No it shouldn't
The reason why Draemii didn't list baleful gear, is because it's completely random and these lists are not just supposed to be the best setup but also realistically obtainable. If you want to sit in Tanaan Jungle all day every day until the end of the expansion farming pure mastery items it's your shout.
In terms of stat weights, it's very hard to simulate CM scenarios to work that out, as even small things like number of targets and fight length drastically alter your stat weights. If you really wanted to nerd it, you'd have a different set up of gear for each pull in each CM. Again, it's not super realistic to obtain that.
Too much of one stat causes the value to decrease since for the most part stats synergize with one another. As enhance it's perfect to get the Mastery/Haste gear, with mastery emphasis and then picking up pure mastery items as and when you come across them.
The reason you wanted crit before is because you never used stacks on AoE, because blink strikes had a chance of multistrike. Crit on your pets multistrike was OP. Once they fixed this multistrike bug, stacks are much more valuable for multi-target, so you go haste to gain more stacks. Before, stacks were saved for boss, while now you use them everywhere.
I'm by no means saying crit mastery isn't good, you'll do good DPS with it, but haste mastery is the preferred stat prio by most realm best, world best and boosting hunters(that I know of, but feel free to correct me :) )
In terms of draemii not listing baleful gear, i can see why you wouldn't list it (as alot of people just going for gold use it as a basis) but for someone like me who has a fair bit of spare time, being able to farm up pure multistrike bits on my DK is oddly satisfying.
By stat weights, i meant smth like "75% of your items secondary stats being mastery, 25% being haste" etc.
P.S The info on hunters comes from 2 of my hunter friends, who boost and do realm best runs, i trust that they know their stuff :)
P.P.S thanks for the shadowmoon video, really helped us with nailing our strat :)
I've been teamless for a while and whilst I've tried to stay on top of everything, my knowledge may be lacking. But I haven't seen any hunters preferring haste myself.
But anyway, back to shammy. Im a great shaman player but not a theorycrafter, anything I could say would be based on observations, napkin maths and 3am skypes with Draemii so bare that in mind. Mastery is better on AOE whereas haste gets the edge on single target. You can find some loose stat weights here (taken from MMO-C).
Stat balance for dps is generally really good these days, not only are the actual stat weights for single target quite close but stat synergy plays a part (too much of one stat would make the other stat far more valuable). Mastery is the winner when it comes to the pulls people are doing these days and so every slot should be either Mastery/Haste with the mastery emphasized or pure mastery.
All this said, min maxing is important but there does come a point where perfection is useless. In terms of say, 200 extra mastery and 200 less haste, you would literally never notice that in a run. You'll experience far higher dps fluctuation just from RNG.
I just asked a friend who does a lot of cm's.
He says it depends what your current gear is like. Unless you are pushing for extreme world record times, you really just want a mix of haste/mastery items. It's only when you have enough haste that you want pure mastery items, and even then it might vary.
So just go with haste/mastery items and you should be safe.
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