Wednesday 24 October 2012

Bear Weapon Enchants

Just a quick post on weapon enchants now that we have access to Living Steel. Windsong is still our better enchant.


Dancing Steel - Permanently enchants a melee weapon to sometimes increase your Strength or Agility by 1,650 when dealing melee damage.  Your highest stat is always chosen. (12 second buff)


Windsong - Permanently enchants a melee weapon to sometimes increase your critical strike, haste, or mastery by 1500 for 12 sec when dealing damage or healing with spells and melee attacks.  Requires a level 372 or higher item.








At first glace, to the average druid who HASN'T been reading along, (jk) Dancing Steel looks to be the better choice.



Windsong (2RPPM)
Uptime 40%
Ave Stat Weight 0.0243    (Crit+Haste+Mastery)/3
Enchant Weight 14.56


Dancing Steel (1PPM)
        Agi         1650             %Uptime        >14.56

This works out that Dancing Steel needs to have a 30.23% up time.

Time to start watching logs, I will update you guys as I see more actual uptimes from mine and other bear logs.

Note: Basic math:
 Enchant Weight = stat weight * amount * % Uptime

4 comments:

  1. You need to account for different proc rates and the fact they use different proc mechanics when you determine the uptimes.

    Wingsong has a 2rppm for 12s, so the uptime should be 24s/min or 40% total uptime. The buffs all share the uptime and are not separate. As such you need to average your 3 values, not add them. So the total stat value is 14.9 (using your stat weights).

    Dancing steel is 1ppm for a 12s, which leads to a minimum 20% uptime, but as its ppm you should gain extra procs from special attacks. Ferals are managing about a 34% uptime according to Fluid Druid, assuming the same for guardians gives a stat value of 16.8

    Therefore using your stat weights Dancing Steel (not living steel) is the better enchant.

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  2. Nice, thanks for the information. Working it in.

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  3. Trying to track down some more Dancing Steel logs to see uptimes as well. Anyone know of bears that have it atm?

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  4. I've worked it out that Dancing Steel has to have at least a 30.23% uptime for it to be better.

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