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Lichborne: Cataclysm pre-raid gear for death knight DPS {WoW}
Dec 28th 2010 10:28AM Since the changes dw is GCD capped so haste is basically worthless. dw frost is done in frost presence, not unholy.
For dw
Strength > Hit to cap >= Expertise to cap > Mastery > Crit > Haste > Agility > Hit to spell cap
For 2hnd
Strength > Hit to cap >= Expertise to cap > Haste > Mastery > Crit > Agility > Hit to spell cap
Though why anyone outside of "I like it and don't care about numbers" would be 2hnd frost right now I don't know.
Also to note, the Tenderizer is the only 346 1hnd str/sta weapon that is slightly slower (meaning higher dmg).
Analysts see into future, expect 650k US sales for WAR's first month {Massively}
Sep 5th 2008 1:39PM Claw you have it wrong. "Elder" is the name that they gave to the "normal" beta testers. That seperates them from the CE and SE preorder testers and OB testers.
The "normal" beta testers from the public, 10's of 1000's of them, have been testing that content. And the NDA they were put back under was at a patch level. Stuff from before that patch they were free to share their experiences on. And even after the patch they were free to share experiences, just not on stuff introduced with that patch. So they weren't talking about things like the AH which were new with that patch, but were talking about the seiges and sharing videos, etc.
And of course, a lot of this changes today as the PW/OB starts and things like the AH is in the new patch for PW/OB.
So you're just confused about what they were under the NDA for. There's tons of videos and posts from people in "normal" beta about those things out there and they are free to talk about them.
Also, not every game is the same. Anyone that was being honest could tell that AoC had a lot of issues. A lot of poor mechanics. Some were easily fooled by their non-whack-a-mole combat that really was just whack-a-mole-x4. But still, AoC had no polish. Lacked content. Had almost no itemization. And was not ready for release.
WAR has a lot of polish. I'd say less then WoW at release, but then WAR has a lot more features then WoW at release. WAR is not going to have the mass exodus AoC had because WAR is a better game then AoC. A more polished game then AoC. It will never hit WoW levels because of the RvR/PvP focus. But it will have big numbers.
Just because AoC exists does not mean every game is like it. Every game has it's share of overly optimistic fans that preach nothing but joy before release. But with even the slightest bit of effort one can clearly find that the overall opinion of WAR is much higher then that of AoC for those that were in betas.
