My level 74 marksman hunter averages 1300 DPS on a target dummy in quest greens and with aspect of the viper active easily 60% of the time.
I have a guildie who’s warrior alt in absolute shit gear (and even the Bind to Account sword from WG) pulls 2200 DPS on heroic dungeon bosses.
I healed a HHoS once, starring a rogue in iLevel 200 epics (his offhand was a 187 blue) and he was drunkenly stumbling about with around 900 DPS. After killing the rock guy, there was a comment made about being stoned, and this fail rogue said “i’m stoned irl”.
So I said “That explains a lot”. He said “lol…”
Then his DPS immediately spiked to 2300 and stayed there for the rest of the instance.
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The closest we’ve come to downing Anub’arak hard mode is 10%. We’ve wiped at that number repeatedly. It hurts so much, to come so close and yet still be so far. Oh well, soon we will have our T10 gear and steamroll over the poor guy. Probably for the best, to be perfectly honest. After a night of heroic Anub’arak, our poor healers are rendered catatonic on the floor, blood seeping from their ears as the infinite abyss of sub 30% health bars claw at their fragile hearts.
I can almost hear them weeping over the sound of my keyboard. A thousand lamentations of a thousand inadequate renews.
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I got my 2piece for T10 finally. Took me long enough.
The effect from the 2piece bonus is called “Pushing the Limit”. An appropriate name, for I get to cast 1.5 second ABlasts with its effect up. Needless to say, it is an extremely good set piece. Shall I compare it to a woman?
She is a long lost lover, a lover I had been rudely separated from many many centuries ago. As fate would decree it, I was lost. Abandoned. An infinite sadness settled upon me, never had I felt such devastating loss. But I would not tire. I could not tire.
For her love, it burned brighter than four hundred billion suns, a beacon reaching out to me across the murky depths of the world, across the sea of black that calls itself the universe. For eons, I searched the world, searching endlessly for my lost love, in the desperate hope that one day… one day we would be reunited.
That day has come, and oh what a glorious dawn it is. See how the sun rises, its gentle light sweetly caressing her face. Tears stream down our faces, as we embrace for the first time in thousands of millenia. Part of me cannot believe that my search is over, that she is real.
This tiny, niggling seed of doubt is swiftly quashed by the warmth of her arms, the silkiness of her skin, the faint scent of cinnamon in her hair. Never have I felt such all encompassing joy. I am home, at last, after so long.
She softly whispers in my ear, her voice the most beautiful music I have heard since the dawn of time itself. She says…
“I have a sister, you know. And she’s open to the idea of a threesome.”
The siren call of 4piece T10 calls to me.
Getting new tier makes me warm inside, too. And not just because half of it is on fire.
Does “Pushing the Limit” increase the haste on the MBAM? How many ABs do you get the haste bonus on?
The haste does not apply to the missiles, but the haste effect does not appear until your missiles finish casting. So basically, it gives you 5 seconds of more haste and you can use every second of that for more arcane blasts.
You need an addon that will yell “Push it. To the limit. One more time!” when your 2P procs.
What about when your mistress appears on the horizon? T11 may be even sweeter.
I have to say – your posts bring a smile to my face when I need it most. Never have I enjoyed a description of a tier proc in my recollection as I did yours.
Your description was both elloquent, and …. moist, lol. Excellent description, and awesome post.
So the 4-piece bonus for the Mage? Lets talk?
I feel there should be some kind of award for this post’s awesomeness.
Yeah T10 I gotta get some of dat.
/salute !
That was awesome.
Grats on your gear!
Not meeting 1k dps at level 80, it’s fail.
I have a funny story about this. There’s this blood death knight who looks to have some bastardisation of the tanking spec. He’s dual wielding infantry blades (blue tanking swords) and is consistently pulling 1200 dps. But he has the pug pet, and plenty of dps t9. Once I post meters after maiden, (halls of stone, btw) he asks how he can improve his dps… So I say, first, use an actual dps weapon, a 2h in your spec… And he whips out a tyrannical beheader from out of nowhere. I laugh as his dps catches up with the tank’s 2500 dps, and passes it. I tell him to look at the dk forums, and he goes afk. He soon returns saying “lol my rotation was messed up, gg now” and keeps up 3200 dps the rest of the run. I can’t figure out if it was a joke, or I really just gave someone 2k more dps.
It made my day though.
Hello sir,
I was wondering if I could get your thoughts and see if you couldn’t supply me with a dose of your magely wisdom.
I had a recent idea on how to perhaps better mana shield for Arcane PVP.
Here would be essentially the revised version of mana shield:
Arcane Shield:
The caster creates a magically sustained protective barrier, with the capacity to negate [X] damage, regenerating it’s damage absorbing qualities by [R] every [Z] seconds. Should the shield reach it’s breaking point and shatter, the mage will suffer a catastrophic flux in arcane levels and loose [Y] mana.
For my full thought process, I have a blog post about where I cam coming from and what I thought this might do for arcane in pvp if you so choose to read it.
http://thearcanery.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/mana-shield-made-better/
On it.
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