I recently got Gorehowl but it isn’t fully upgraded so it’s much lower than my current weapon. According to wowhead and icyveins Gorehowl is my BiS.
Is it worth dumping all my flightstones on?
Probably not worth upgrading right now if you are just trading secondary stats unless this one is on hero track and would let you take it to 483.
If you are capping on flighstones maybe slowly upgrade it so they don’t go to waste?
Best a thing you could do is sim upgrading it vs your trinkets or healm/chest/pants
im not even sure why they have gorehowl as bis, as i would consider it the worst stats of all the m+ 2 handed weapons. I can only assume they are counting the demonbane towards its stat budget
Raidbots can be used to check how much you’re missing (there’s an option to add upgraded versions on the Top Gear sims).
Getting even 10 iLvl on a weapon is very much worth it, however, as weapons have the highest stat budget (as in, more points per iLvl). If it goes to the same iLvl as your current weapon, I mean… flightstones don’t matter, they just come in for free. It’s really about preference at that point.
It is the only one with Mastery on it. The guides are currently all kinds of messed up, though - even the gems/enchants page has random stats on everything. I guess they just picked one weapon at random.
I wonder how much Mastery would affect Bloodshot uptime compared to whatever uptime sims are using, imo that could change the value of mastery in real world situations.
the guide says to favor away from mastery as it has the least offense connected to it… as such all the food, gems and jewelry exclude mastery… which is what makes gorehowl a confusing bis weapon choice
Stat DR is a thing. Eventually, youll get better return from something like versatility even than adding more haste when youre losing 50% effectiveness per point you up haste. Thats why simming is important.
For some dps classes, youll be hitting heavy DR at 44% crit and 36% haste, which at that point mastery and versatility are just more effective. Each spec is different on caps. Have to figure those out first, then sim everything after.
While they can make mistakes, usually the BiS formula is the example of the best combination of gear to reach your most effective rating levels.
Stat prio will change with every piece of gear you get. Don’t go off of guides. Sim your own characters.
Edit: Also if this is for blood, mastery is a huge effective life pool buff. it might not be best for damage but mastery stacking was a thing even at the end of last season for blood.
op is a blood dk so yes it was assumed this was for blood… thank you though for the basic understanding of how stats work… i never would have known
I actually haven’t sim’d before and not sure how tbh. I usually reference BiS from icyveins and such. But ye am blood
Raidbots is probably the most approachable way. It’s just a website and since they try to make money out of it it should have guides on how to use it, too.
SimulationCraft can be used to do your own, and I think Raidbots internally even uses SimulationCraft, or some heavily altered version of it. It is not approachable, but imo Raidbots can be even more configurable than it now.
Either way, specially as a tank, take sims with a grain of salt. It doesn’t care about survivability at all. This usually means it’ll ignore stats that improve survivability because of the ones that offer more damage, but another thing is that it will not be using Death Strikes like we do - they’re essentially fighting target dummies, so they death strike optimally with regards to resource consumption, etc. How much does this affect end results? Hard to tell.
I’m not saying they’re bad. Sims are a great resource to use, just don’t overuse them. They should be one of your considerations, not all of them.