6.0 Level 90 Armor Values and Equation

While working though my spreadsheet for my guardian druid for 6.0 I had to work through armor values and physical reduction associated with it. Here's my findings!

The actual equation actually works out close to the same format as the current one:

Current

6.0

Where R: Reduction, A: Armor and L: Level

Wildstar - 24:38 Stormtalon Silver Run

Not a perfect run, we were running someone for their silver but I thought some content was due.

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I've also have been working on a warrior spreadsheet that I plan to get up on here in the next few days!

Wildstar - War of the Wild Gold Medal - Backdoor Creeps!

Little Wildstar clip on the warrior. Definitely enjoying the game so expect some more content from me soon!

Guardian Druid 6.0 - Mastery: Primal Tenacity First Look

Guardian Druids' Mastery (Nature's Guardian) has been replaced with a new Mastery: Primal Tenacity. 

Mastery: Primal Tenacity causes the Druid to gain a Physical absorb shield equal to 16% of the attack's damage when they are hit by a Physical attack. Attacks which this effect fully or partially absorbs cannot trigger Primal Tenacity.

First I would like to say I'm glad they are changing the mastery. Just a static armor increase was lazy and incredibly weak compared to other secondary stats.

That being said, I have a strong feeling Primal Tenacity will not stay in it's first pass. Yes the absorb is great and I like the whole idea behind the new mastery, but let me give you an example to explain how it doesn't work well with the druid kit.

I'm tanking one mob, say Garrosh phase 2. Just the boss's melee attacks as incoming physical damage.

Sequence of events goes as follows:

Garrosh melee's Tova for 200 000
Tova gains Primal Tenacity (50000 absorb)
Tova gains Tooth and Claw
Tova casts Maul
Garrosh receives Tooth and Claw debuff (reduces next melee attack by 160 000)
Garrosh melees Tova for 40 000 (Not enough to break my Primal Tenacity shield 5000 left)

In this event I have not broken my Primal Tenacity shield and therefore do not get a new one. Next melee is going to hit me almost full and I will not gain a new shield.

My first dreadful feeling from this is, I'm going to have to have a weakaura tracking my Primal Tenacity shield strength and a Primal Tenacity cancelaura macro in order to min/max...

Let's just hope some fine tuning comes to this.

Heart Strike vs Blood Boil *UPDATED*

With some more info put forward to me Zachary here on blogger there needs to be a big update.

tldr: 

Blood Boil is only better than Heart Strike depending on AP, Weapon Damage and the number of targets:

Here is an example with a 31,170 average Weapon Damage weapon.

The Math:

The big there here is that Weapon Damage is also modified by AP. (4.24 AP = 1 Weap Dam)

So the question now: How many targets do I need to have before Blood Boil will do more damage than a Heart Strike?

Heart Strike Damage on Three Targets = Blood Boil Damage x Number of Mobs required.

((545 + Weap Dam x 1.05) x 1.3) x 1.75 = ((3859 + AP x 0.11) x 1.5) x M

M = ((545 + Weap Dam x 1.05) x 1.3) x 1.75 / ((3859 + AP x 0.11) x 1.5)

As a result depending on Weapon Damage and AP (base and from Vengeance) we can find the number of mobs required.

Here is a spreadsheet I've made up with the basics:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqL7oR0xP-VAdFV2eTlya01FQlZRU1U5blhjLXhEY0E&usp=drive_web#gid=1

Stream Giveaway! Iron Skyreaver

Last night in anticipation of getting to 1000 followers I thought I'd do a giveaway for the regular viewers that were in stream just before hitting the mark!

Grats to

Ithoraxei 

on their new Iron Skyreaver

Hope to keep the stream going strong.

www.Twitch.tv/TheeTova

SoO - Heroic 10 - Garrosh Hellscream

<Memoirs> - Heroic 10 - Garrosh Hellscream

Done and done with Siege of Orgrimmar. Great finish from my guys!

As well Memoirs is recruiting as we look forward to Warlords of Draenor. Check us out at:

www.MoagBDF.com