Comments on: New Scaling.

By: Saeric

Saeric — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:58:19 +0000

Haste is a fickle mistress. At certain points, the cooldwons and casting times of your spells interact in such a way to completely change your casting order, and so the “scaling” value of haste basically changes constantly. The 1 haste = 1 spellpower figure is somewhat of an average for if you are under 800 or so haste, while after 800 haste each point seems to suffer from some diminishing returns that will push haste to be worth slightly less than spellpower. There is a pretty good discussion about it in the 3.3 BiS Gear thread at shadowpriest.com, a little too much to worry about I think when a good general rule of thumb is just to equate haste with spellpower, then after 800 start valuing SP slightly more.

By: Juzaba

Juzaba — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:55:21 +0000

I don’t think there’s much of a haste cap. Even a soft cap. At 50% haste (40% gear haste + raid buffs), we’ll hit the GCD for our dot castings and MB, but Flay and the dot ticks will still gain the effect even past that. I think stacking haste and spellpower in equal amounts will provide the most benefit. We should still have some crit pieces though, as the more haste you have, the better crit becomes.

By: Shy

Shy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:23:30 +0000

I love the game of improving my performance. I find it challenging. In fact, if this game was only about adventuring I would’ve been finished with WotLK like 8 months ago.

By: Jormundgard

Jormundgard — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:18:20 +0000

The soul of this game died when the spirit of adventure was replaced with DPS meters.