Quickly

I wont be posting (or playing) much for the rest of this week, mostly because of the holiday. We had a focused busy day today in an effort to get as much done as possible so we could all get a head start on the long weekend. Gotta love a boss who, while competant and fair, still holds the air of a teenager (we had a team lunch a few weeks ago, complete with a fun little ice breaker survey, to which he answered the question “what would be your dream job?” with “doing nothing”).

Anyway, I took the advice I got yesterday from a few commenters and did some of my own calculations. Once I get the season 2 swords (should only take a few more weeks), I will switch to a build more like this, which Feist-Mok suggested. After looking at my recount data (pictured below, Akil’zon kill) from last night’s ZA run, I realized that 2/2 weapon expertise would be a better investment of points than 5/5 [weapon] spec and 1/1 prep. You can see the numbers pretty clearly.

 

10 less dodges for melee at an average hit of 369 = 3690. 3 less dodges of hemo at an average hit of 663 = 1989. That totals 5679 pts of damage I could have had with 2/2 weapon expertise. Not to mention that those 3 hemo dodges meant 3 times I wasted energy failing to put a debuff on the boss, which means overall raid damage lost. Consider it’s worth 10 charges, and costs 35 energy. 40 charges missed (including the one parry). Up to 36 points of raid damage per. Add that together with the damage I missed out on, and I cost the raid just over 7k damage for that fight. Akil’zon only has about 1.3 million hitpoints, so the disparity is minor: .55%. But still, damage is damage.

Finally, this was a big surprise to me. Not so much me being second to BRK, as I am quite used to that, but rather my being able to maintain a 778 dps for a fight where there is quite a bit of running around. Once I get more comfortable with the rotations and energy management, I’m pretty confident I’ll be able to break pretty well into the 800’s.