

That being that going for socket bonus will give you the maximum value overall within that balance between offense and defense.
Where to get pristine black diamonds on wow tbc 2.4.3 full#
Some rogue will rock with a lot of PVE gear alongside with full AP gem, and some with way more defensive build, it is up to you, your composition, and your own personal gameplay. It is more a balance between offensive and defensive stats. When it comes down to how you should gem your rogue for PVP, there is no perfect answer. – for the piece that you also use in PvE, try to gem the less possible hit rating on it since it has a lot less value and just put it elsewhere if possible! – you can also plan your build for the next phase, same idea here, not regemming a piece that is still bis. – plan your end phase build, that way you won’t replace gem to adjust your hit cap or get your meta gem activated later If you manage correctly to get the best out of your socket bonuses, you have now the best you can do for your current setup!įew more advice to avoid swapping gem on a piece as your setup evolve : Most of the time, you will use orange agi/hit, red agility, and violet agi/stamina except early on where there is a lot of choices thanks to epic quality gems that drop in heroics as well as PVP gem (we advise you to keep those gems for your end phases gear).

Here a simple method that you can do in a gear planner.ġ) Gem your two violet/green gem in blue (else red) socket that will give you access to the best socket bonus if you have Relentless Earthstorm Diamond (if not skip this)Ģ) Gem full Yellow hit on the rest of the socket (you should be above the hit cap)ģ) Then socket orange gem first on red socket then on yellow to lower your hit rating until hit cap (and try to get first the best socket bonus by doing so, especially in gear where you put your violet gem).Ĥ) if you are still above the hit cap you can now replace some orange gem in the red sockets with red gems. Now that you know what are the best gems and that you have decided which hit cap you aim to get, it’s time to socket the gems on your gear! Note that if you are lucky enough to have a Draenei in your group on a regular basis you should aim for -16 less hit rating! – When facing bosses you can use Spicy Hot Talbuk (20 hit rating food) to get to 336 hit rating instead of Warp Burger (20 agility food) which will give you about 3 DPS more.

– When facing level 71-72 mob you will be exactly at 316 hit rating (cap for level 72) – When facing level 70 mobs you will be below the 300 hit cap (since your boomkin might not put faerie fire on mobs that will be AOE down quickly). The aim is 269 hit rating with your gear and gems To use some of Simonize’s numbers for T4, his advice would be to gem for 72 hit cap, which will lose you about 3 DPS or -0.2% damage against level 73 but by doing so you will gain 35.5 DPS or +2% damage against level target 72! This is an interesting one, if you care only about boss damage, you should go for the 363 hit cap, but if you care more about overall damage, you will not lose too much lowering your hit since the last points close to hitting cap are not that much value, but you will then have less or no hit that is useless against lower-level target and more agility so more overall damage! If you are alliance you can have either a warrior, a paladin, or a hunter on your group that will give you his racial Aura (note that the shaman bring spell hit and no physical hit) which give you: 15.8 hit ratingĪ boomkin will put a debuff Faerie fire which increases the hit chance against the target by 3%, which equates to 47.4 hit ratingģ) Do you care more about boss damage or overall damage? Yes, it is true, when you hit a mob of a certain level … but you will fight against boss but also trash that has lower level thus having a lower hit cap.Īnd there is also a few other factors that might change your hit cap : You might think “how can I even choose my hit cap? there is only one value that is true right?”
