This doesn’t make any sense. You have to buy the rank five base item whether you recraft your legendary or not. You just buy the rank 5 in the slot you want, no need to recraft at all.
I don’t understand why this is such a big deal.
Hmm, the info I’ve been seeing says you can only have one gem of each type, and there’s only three gems that directly affect dps. The other gems are heal/tank/utility focused. So I’m not sure how you’re going to get 3% dps from a gem that increases your Leech or creates an absorb shield on your target. Can you stack more than one gem of the same type for double effect?
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5 gems
3 for the set, dps/survival/utility
2 of the other sets dps gems.
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Because legendary prices are insane, so I invested a lot of time into leveling a LW. Now having to switch to rings, necks, and cloaks would cost me a lot of gold and completely de-value all of my previous work to level LW.
From my understanding it’s one of the same type at a certain rank. Meaning you can have a rank 1, 2, and 3 dps one along with a rank 3 healing, and rank 3 utility one for example.
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Don’t recraft a rank 4 though, just make your rank 5s in non-DS slots. Chances are you’re probably not going to get all your DS pieces in the short time it will take to get rank 5 legendaries.
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Not quite sure how much would be insane for you. For me, they cost around 15 to 25k which if find rather easy to afford. I do not farm anything at all either. I have the Nyia skill tree thing that randomly puts a bag of fish and stuff in my bags. That’s the only thing I sell.
I think the math doesn’t quite support this.
The unholy dps shard is 0.33% (rank 1) to 0.5% (rank 5) additional dps for 4 seconds when you deal damage stacking 3 times.
So even at max rank it’s a short ramp up anytime you spend more than 4 seconds off the boss and maxes at a 1.5% dps gain with perfect uptime. How would that equal it being worth 3%?
The Frost gem is 3% (rank 1) to 4.5% (rank 5) additional damage for the first 20 seconds you hit a new enemy. So in a 5-8 minute boss fight how is 4.5% for 20 seconds out of 5-8 minutes a 3% total gain? Imagine how worthless that gem would be on Sire lol.
So you need all three of one color for the set bonus. Then ideally you put the other two color dps gems in the leftover two sockets.
I don’t do parses or spreadsheets, so please don’t quote me on that 3%. That’s just what has been tossed in my face when I say you don’t need all five slots. Others on the forum have claimed each dps gem gives you a 3% dps increase.
Which to me, doesn’t really seem to be big enough to really worry too much about.
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I mean for casual players the domination system is mostly irrelevant. You should be fine in theroy to not worry about a full set if your pushing heroic. However, with a lot of guilds that push for AOTC, they tend to be in about the same boat as guilds that push mythic for an entire tier, so anything helps.
I would suggest worrying about a 5th socket, yet I don’t think it would kill you if you didn’t have it. Now if you also do 15 keys, then I would sincerely suggest worrying about it, as they “balance” runs around these systems.
The only difference between recrafting and upgrading is the loss of Soul Ash.
And Blizzard are increasing how much you get from your first run of Torghast by 80%, letting you farm Soul Ash in additional runs infinitely (albeit at a reduced %) and then ontop of that, letting you buy BoA items with Soul Ash to send it to other characters.
It’s a non-issue. But someone got mad at it before actually looking at the nitty gritty so now we gotta deal with the outrage on the forums.
Only reason to craft a Rank 4 is if your legendary, not just it’s slot, actually changes. You’ll be able to craft a Rank 5 the first week of the tier actually launching, or if Sanctum doesn’t bless you, hold onto it until you craft a Rank 6.
People seem to have the mentality that Domination Sockets will instantly render your current Rank 4’s worthless.
I mean, maybe if your server is mega-dead?
When the dust settles and making a Rank 6 is actually worth it, I’ll be shocked if I have to pay any more than 100k off the AH.
Yup, but that is very limited, like balance druid recrafting from Boat to arcane pulsar
Which is my exact situation.
Feelsbadman. Oh well, got in before the price gouging got real bad so I only had to pay 40k.
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Our prices are pretty much the same over here thankfully haha.
You are so blessed. Not everyone is in your situation. I fully expect Rank 5/6 Legendaries will be well in excess of 100k each on my server, and I wouldn’t be shocked to see them at 250k. I would need a ring, a neck, and a cloak across the four specs that I play. So I’m looking at something like half a million gold probably if I decide I have to move out of domination slots.
Keep in mind that you only need to move them out of domination sockets when you have both the Dominated Socketed piece AND the Domination Gem itself.
Both which drop from the raid.
Unless you’re a bleeding edge player (and no offense, but you’re not), you got time.
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It’s extremely unlikely 1 socket makes or breaks heroic raiding, but you’ll certainly be mocked/judged for it.
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yes. higher maximum theoretical dps is always going to be preferable. whether you parse at 30% of your potential or 95%, the result will be a higher number in raid.
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These are exactly the attitudes that are causing problems for so many people. “You aren’t cutting edge, so it doesn’t matter.” And “You must suck because you aren’t using the build that all the wowhead guides and world first raiders say is optimal.”
You’re screwed either way. If you just play whatever, people will judge you for not being optimal. If you try to be optimal, then people will just tell you to do exactly what the world first raiders do. And if you suggest that following the world first players may not be optimal for the average person, then you’re told that it doesn’t matter what you do.
It’ll matter. But if you’re not cutting edge, you got time.
Do you realistically see yourself getting both the domination socket AND the gem within the timeframe where recrafting your legendary will be a significant financial burden? This goes especially for alts.
THAT’S what needs to be taken into account. Recrafting your legendary for an alt that probably won’t see the inside of Sanctum until LFR comes out is pointless.
But if you do expect to do SoD in any sort of progression minded aspect, then recrafting your legendary is absolutely the correct choice.
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