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03-26-2010, 12:12 PM
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://www.wow.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/) is about warriors, those lovable, squeezable, strokeable bundles of pure joy who seethe with a burning inner fire, a rage that can only be quenched in blood. Matthew Rossi (http://www.wow.com/bloggers/matthew-rossi/) tries quenching it in delicious caffeinated beverages. You'd be surprised how often that works.
Okay, patch 3.3.3 (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/22/patch-3-3-3-going-live-patch-3-3-3-guide/) dropped this week. The Revenge change (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/23/world-of-warcraft-patch-3-3-3-release-patch-notes/)? Pretty darn awesome. The change to Imp Revenge makes it really great for PvE. The change to Vitality was a nice bump in our health. But since I've covered tanking topics for weeks now, it's long past time I make good on my promise and talk about DPS. First off, they already hotfixed the 4pcT10 set bonus (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=70847) down from its near 100% up time back down to the 20% intended proc chance. That's a shame, because for one brief, shining moment, our 4 piece set bonus was almost as good as the rogue 2 piece (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=70805). Of course, there was a nice duration buff to Trauma (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=46855), a much less nice nerf to Bladestorm (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=46924), and Rampage (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29801) changed to a passive aura (meaning that now I have to use Bloodrage if I need to use Enraged Regeneration, but otherwise I'm happy).
We can talk about Rend Dancing (http://elitistjerks.com/f81/t37680-depth_fury_dps_discussion/p120/#post1592012). What, pray tell, is rend dancing? Well, it's fitting Rend (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=47465) into a fury warrior's DPS rotation. The reason this works (when it does) is because a fury warrior's DPS rotation has a lot of dead space between abilty and global cooldowns and waiting for procs to switch stances and put Rend on a target for more DPS. Generally speaking, a macro to switch you into Battle, apply rend, then switch you back to Berserker (http://elitistjerks.com/f81/t37680-depth_fury_dps_discussion/p121/#post1592477) is very useful (http://elitistjerks.com/f81/t37680-depth_fury_dps_discussion/p121/#post1593596) for Rend Dancing.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The problems with DPS (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/26/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-the-problems-with-dps/)
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://www.wow.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/) is about warriors, those lovable, squeezable, strokeable bundles of pure joy who seethe with a burning inner fire, a rage that can only be quenched in blood. Matthew Rossi (http://www.wow.com/bloggers/matthew-rossi/) tries quenching it in delicious caffeinated beverages. You'd be surprised how often that works.
Okay, patch 3.3.3 (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/22/patch-3-3-3-going-live-patch-3-3-3-guide/) dropped this week. The Revenge change (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/23/world-of-warcraft-patch-3-3-3-release-patch-notes/)? Pretty darn awesome. The change to Imp Revenge makes it really great for PvE. The change to Vitality was a nice bump in our health. But since I've covered tanking topics for weeks now, it's long past time I make good on my promise and talk about DPS. First off, they already hotfixed the 4pcT10 set bonus (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=70847) down from its near 100% up time back down to the 20% intended proc chance. That's a shame, because for one brief, shining moment, our 4 piece set bonus was almost as good as the rogue 2 piece (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=70805). Of course, there was a nice duration buff to Trauma (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=46855), a much less nice nerf to Bladestorm (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=46924), and Rampage (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29801) changed to a passive aura (meaning that now I have to use Bloodrage if I need to use Enraged Regeneration, but otherwise I'm happy).
We can talk about Rend Dancing (http://elitistjerks.com/f81/t37680-depth_fury_dps_discussion/p120/#post1592012). What, pray tell, is rend dancing? Well, it's fitting Rend (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=47465) into a fury warrior's DPS rotation. The reason this works (when it does) is because a fury warrior's DPS rotation has a lot of dead space between abilty and global cooldowns and waiting for procs to switch stances and put Rend on a target for more DPS. Generally speaking, a macro to switch you into Battle, apply rend, then switch you back to Berserker (http://elitistjerks.com/f81/t37680-depth_fury_dps_discussion/p121/#post1592477) is very useful (http://elitistjerks.com/f81/t37680-depth_fury_dps_discussion/p121/#post1593596) for Rend Dancing.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The problems with DPS (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/26/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-the-problems-with-dps/)
Filed under: Warrior (http://www.wow.com/category/warrior/), (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://www.wow.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/)
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The problems with DPS (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/26/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-the-problems-with-dps/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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