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Armor Penetration (for feral druids) FAQ

September 10, 2009 by Alaron

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Posted in Feral DPS | Tagged Feral DPS, theorycraft | 16 Comments

16 Responses

on September 10, 2009 at 6:45 pm | Reply Kal

Really outstanding post, again. And great blog!
- on September 10, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Reply Alaron
  
  Thanks.
on September 11, 2009 at 6:28 am | Reply Serge Matveev

Thank you. This is very interesting article. But I have a question: How do you think, why many ‘cat guides’ recommends to switch Agi stones to ApR stones right after 250-300 ApR on the gear? Not after 450. In the current release (3.2.1), of course.
- on September 11, 2009 at 11:44 pm | Reply Alaron
  
  Serge- Most cat guides assume you have near-BIS gear (including Grim Toll or the Runestone) and are operating in a 25-man rain environment with all debuffs covered. That was one the reasons I wrote this, actually, as I see a lot of people saying ‘OMG gem ArPen’ when it doesn’t make sense in a lot of situations.
on September 12, 2009 at 2:17 am | Reply Sam

My guess would be that if you regem/eat/etc… for ArP once you have 250-300 passive ArP from gear, it’ll push you over the threshold and make it retroactively the better choice. Unless I’ve missed something :S
on September 12, 2009 at 9:04 am | Reply Alaron

Sam-

if you have a full 25-man group and a trinket, that’s true until 3.2.2 drops…which is probably this Tuesday.
on September 14, 2009 at 5:19 am | Reply Armor Penetration FAQ, Part 2 « The Fluid Druid

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on September 23, 2009 at 2:43 am | Reply Firespirit

Al,

Got a link from wordpress to your blog. Great, GREAT job on this post. Informative, and yet, not like a text book. Great blog too, by the way.

For us ret pallies, ArPen is now a junk stat. Its not totally useless, but just about. Its kinda like MP5 for some caster classes. Its there, it does a function, but really, not much in comparision to every other stat.

So, if you are reading comments, and you are a ret, just remember, dont EVER EVAR gem ArPen. And don’t even consider it as a stat in your stat ranks. Any dps it provides, which is not much, is going to be gravy.
- on September 23, 2009 at 11:09 am | Reply Alaron
  
  Firespirit- thanks for the kind words. I have no idea on ret pallies, but I’d imagine that it doesn’t benefit stuff like consecrate/judgment/exorcism, so ick.
on September 29, 2009 at 2:11 am | Reply Drunkdrood

So I am sitting at 588 ArP + Grim Toll your saying I should be switching back to gemming AGI after the patch…. that sucks so much gold spent on ArP
- on September 29, 2009 at 2:14 am | Reply Alaron
  
  -DD: No. Read Part 2.
on September 29, 2009 at 2:33 am | Reply Drunkdrood

Thanks for the great read and information really helped me out as I was on the fence on weather or not to re gem.
- on September 29, 2009 at 10:08 am | Reply Alaron
  
  DD-
  
  Sorry, was a bit late last night and was a bit hasty with my first reply. My point was (and is in part 2) that the decision is based on a LOT more things then just your current ArPen level, so best practice is to go plug it into Rawr or Toskk’s calculator.
on December 30, 2009 at 3:53 pm | Reply 2009 Retrospective/Things to do for 2010 (low content) « The Fluid Druid

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