Post by Cant
Far be it from me to make a spread sheet containing the benefits of a
flask of endless rage and the
fish feast buffs on feral druids.
I also don't want to sound like I'm complaining about feral dps, however what else are forums for. When I look over the per point distribution for each stat vs the dps result, attack power is barely in the top 6. You may say to yourself so what, but it gets worse. When I am raid buffed I easily hit 10k attack power. So if you at another 260 attack power to your previous 10,000 = 10,260 it seems almost pointless to flask and eat. It looks like you gain a 3% increase which is only 180 dps ...if you average 6k dps.
Am I correct by assuming rogues and warriors benefit a lot more from fish feasts and flasks than we do?
Would I also be correct in assuming that armor penetration food buff would be more beneficial if you are not capped, however would cost you more gold.
Why cant there be a flask for armor pen or agility?
I challenge you to lead me to a link that disproves my theory or show me that I am missing some sort of cat multiplier, because I am getting my numbers from in-game usage. Good Luck.
Post by Heckler
While I'm not going to actually attempt to defeat your challenge, I will say that a 3% increase in DPS is still a 3% increase. I will also say that pure AP ranks low (point for point) for every class that uses it (Maybe not as low as us, but always less than pure stats). Also, HotW offers a 10% AP multiplier, increasing your figure of 260 to 286.
You would definitely be better off picking specific food buffs, but the reason people don't do this is specifically because of the cost (Since we don't benefit from the Spell Power, the Fish Feast is budget equivilent to any of the high end food buffs, and since its pure AP, its actually inferior to
either dragonfin, and also to
Hearty Rhino if your up around the "ArPen is good" point).
As far as specific guardian / battle elixirs, normally a pair of elixirs is more powerful than a single flask by design -- the flask sacrifices some power for the persists-through-death effect. Since there is literally 0 useful guardian elixirs for feral however, you're basically comparing 1 Elixir to 1 Flask, maybe the best choice would be Mighty Agility (+45 Agi) or Guru's (+20 Stats) but compared to 180 AP that persists through death, the flask is likely the best choice regardless.
As far as other classes getting more out of these buffs, I can't say for certain, but Blessing of Might (+687 talented) / Battle Shout (+822 talented) offer far more pure AP, so if you're going to complain about Fish Feast / Flask of Endless Rage, you may as well complain about all AP buffs in general as well, since they would obviously have an even larger disparity than the food/flask have, if such a disparity exists. (In my opinion, they are no more powerful for the other classes, but thats just my opinion).
(My numbers for Battle Shout and Blessing of Might don't look right, any verification would be appreciated)