The Light and How to Swing It: Raid gear for ret paladins in Dragon Soul

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12-07-2011 @ 7:39PM

gewalt said...

im very confused why haste is being given an equal value as mastery or crit in this writeup.

afaic, avoid haste every chance you get.

12-07-2011 @ 7:48PM

Dan Desmond said...

That wasn't intentional. If you were thrown off by this line,

"Both have haste and both have a red socket with a +10 strength bonus"

What I meant was that they both had that unfortunate stat on them. Let me be clear, I am *not* advocating gearing for haste. Please for the love of the Light, do NOT stack haste.

12-07-2011 @ 7:53PM

Pliers said...

I'm very confused why you think he's given haste an equal value to mastery and crit.

"With haste still being a fairly distant third in our stat priority" is a direct quote from his article.

On top of that, he picks the items that minimize haste, where other things are equal.

Good write up. The only thing I'd add is that, based on the testing available so far, Gurthalak seems to be far and away the best choice for weapons. They seem to have hotfixed its crit rate, and possibly its # of ticks and damage, but it blows away any other options.

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