Destro 5.4 stat prios

[Nalar 0]

@waramaur, its going good , 2nd dps in my guild at the moment up against a frost DK, im doing about 170k+ dps (constistantly compared to demo where i was going to 240k burst at the start , then lvling out at 140k ish).

using the havoc macro from icy veins still and its awesome when you glyph havoc.

creating embers is no problem at all and the rotaion is not hard at the least.

 

dont listen to what ppl are saying , i would recommend destro , it is still a viable spec with alot of punch. butonly let down by the fact that you connot chaosbolt whilst you move anymore, but apart from that its good.)

 

regards 

          Nalar.

 

be a rebel and go against convention !!!!

[Rakupenda 15]

As for the other reforges, look at Kyla's stat weights.  Haste - 3.03 and Mastery - 3.01.  THE DIFFERENCE IS NEGLIGIBLE!  If you were to change out 10k Haste for 10k Mastery in this situation AND THE WEIGHTS DIDNT CHANGE, you'd lose 2k DPS THEORETICALLY!  In reality, the answer is you'd lose an ass ton of DPS because you broke your Haste/Mastery synergy.

Carried one extra zero there, sir.

10,000 * 0.02 = 200

[Waramaur 1]

Zagam, thank you for your response, more food for thought.

 

My next question is about gemming...currently I only reforged for Mastery.  Should I change my gemming to Mastery as well?  If I do, then I end up losing over 2k spell power

[Zagam 1,983]

See, even less important!  Math gets me all hot and bothered sometimes haha

[Zagam 1,983]

Zagam, thank you for your response, more food for thought.

 

My next question is about gemming...currently I only reforged for Mastery.  Should I change my gemming to Mastery as well?  If I do, then I end up losing over 2k spell power

Talking about your red gems?  Personally, I think you get more bang for your back with secondary stats with gems for ONE reason...they doubled the stat allotment for secondary gems.  You might LOSE 2k Intellect/Spell Power, but you'll be gaining 4k Haste/Mastery. 

[Omaric 246]

Talking about your red gems?  Personally, I think you get more bang for your back with secondary stats with gems for ONE reason...they doubled the stat allotment for secondary gems.  You might LOSE 2k Intellect/Spell Power, but you'll be gaining 4k Haste/Mastery. 

 

And I said to myseeeeelf, what a wonderful woooorld (of warcraft). I'm retarded.

[Havoclord 0]

Preface this post by saying I am not a top 10% player but I do raid regularly and those times when I have had to pug I have always been invited back cause I can stay out of crap and put out respectable numbers. I also had this lock as my main since 08. I have done 25's but prefer 10's

 

SPEC vs SPEC

 

I run simcraft as a test of my abilities vs theory as opposed to spec to spec. Here is my theory pick the spec you are best in overall and run with it. I could never master Demo so even when it is the best spec my Destro will out shine it (for me). Affliction works very well when you are the top or near top DPS in the group but I have insane burst dps classes in my raid team and on adds Affliction pressure style gets lost. My preference is Destro but my Affliction proficiency is quite decent. Look at your raid team and figure out what do they need more a nuke or a plague and go from there

 

SPEC WEIGHTS

 

Now isn't this fun. I have not seen this much talk about Destro spec weights in forever. I have tried the Mastery as primary, Haste as primary and Crit as primary. (thank god I have gold). With multiple combos of secondary. For my play style and team , Crit / Mastery (hit more things harder) for add fights and Crit / Haste (hit one thing faster) for single target seems to be my best combo. Not a fan of mastery first it seems very sluggish, Maybe I haven't seen it on enough fights yet and I might try it later on

 

I have gemmed into int / crit gems or pure crit gems where applicable. There is my 20 cents worth