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Post by
hawke
I was thinking the same thing yesterday. How good are hybrid gems now ? I bought
this meta
yesterday, so I had to have 2 yellow gem... and I realised that the orange aren't that bad. Gems like
this one
is a good hybrid to match a socket color and get the bonus, and activate the Meta at the same time. Since I had Yellow Socket, it was either this hybrid, or get a straight +30 haste or +30 mastery into it, and seeing how int is really good and mastery is kind of helpfull too, I may switch my +30 haste to the hybrid one :)
Post by
Flonnette
We probably need a Holy/Prot/Ret gem thread in itself which breaks things down by colors in weak order of priority.
Post by
Arannia
Mastery is rubbish. Get the crit or haste/Int tbh!
Post by
bigheaded
Mastery is rubbish. Get the crit or haste/Int tbh!
I'm not sure I fully agree with this. Ret's mastery actually plays a large part in our dps generation.
I haven't tried holy or prot since expac, but I'm sure they both rely on their respective masteries.
Post by
pezz
Ret's isn't that good. Hell, a Mastery proc without 3 hp is sixth in the list of priorities.
Holy's is only good if A) you never cast faster than your shields are used up by damage (which on tanks presupposes that they do not have avoidance and on DPS assumes they continue to stand in the fire) and B) your shields don't expire (which assumes, again, that your DPS obligingly stand in the fire for more than one tick).
Post by
Arannia
Mastery is rubbish. Get the crit or haste/Int tbh!
I'm not sure I fully agree with this. Ret's mastery actually plays a large part in our dps generation.
I haven't tried holy or prot since expac, but I'm sure they both rely on their respective masteries.
That was in reply to the post that linked to an intellect/mastery gem. Regardless of how good mastery is for ret, I don't think intellect is very good at all. :)
Post by
hawke
Hehe ;). Yea, I will switch to Int + Haste as soon as they stop selling it 3 times the price of Int + Mastery :(
Post by
Carukia
For ret, skip socket bonuses 99% of the time and gem straight Strength. For certain socket bonuses, typically +strength (and typically on the helm), you should use orange/purple gems. Holy is a little different, but I wouldn't be surprised if the same advice doesn't apply.
Hehe ;). Yea, I will switch to Int + Haste as soon as they stop selling it 3 times the price of Int + Mastery :(
Int + mastery is crap. I would rather pay three times as much for int + haste.
Post by
Carukia
Mastery is rubbish. Get the crit or haste/Int tbh!
I'm not sure I fully agree with this. Ret's mastery actually plays a large part in our dps generation.
I haven't tried holy or prot since expac, but I'm sure they both rely on their respective masteries.
That was in reply to the post that linked to an intellect/mastery gem. Regardless of how good mastery is for ret, I don't think intellect is very good at all. :)
Mastery is the worst stat for ret. I wouldn't be surprised if Int is better.
Post by
hawke
Int + mastery is crap. I would rather pay three times as much for int + haste.
Well, It's not THAT crappy. Plus, paying over 100g for a green gem that will give me what, ~0.10% more haste is a bit overkill IMO.
As far as matching color goes, I try to got straight +int aswell. But if I get a blue gem, I was gemming straight +spirit. I'll change that now that I have less and less mana problem with +int +spirit (purple). We benefit a lot from int, so having as much as possible is always good :)
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Post by
Carukia
Int + mastery is crap. I would rather pay three times as much for int + haste.
Well, It's not THAT crappy. Plus, paying over 100g for a green gem that will give me what, ~0.10% more haste is a bit overkill IMO.
As far as matching color goes, I try to got straight +int aswell. But if I get a blue gem, I was gemming straight +spirit. I'll change that now that I have less and less mana problem with +int +spirit (purple). We benefit a lot from int, so having as much as possible is always good :)
wooo , CAPTCHA : Wished her
Wel,, I was a bit too emphatic there. For green gems, it's more about getting something in there than worrying about which stat is best. When you get into blue gems and especially purple, and assuming Blizz doesn't make mastery better for us (we can always hope), you would want to think about paying extra for the haste.
Post by
hawke
Oh don't worry, when my guild get raiding seriously, I will get +int +haste ;P. I'm usally trying to get all I can from what I'm using, and hasteĀ > mastery.
Post by
jwjsmith
I'm still trying to figure out why people are gemming for haste at the moment.
In Wrath, it was HPS that was important. Ok, great, gem haste, int, blah blah. Get that holy light cast down as far as possible.
Now, it's HPM, and haste doesn't do ^&*! for that. I would lay odds that if people are dying in fights, it's not because you don't have the haste for it. It's because you used the wrong spell at the wrong time on the wrong person, or they got themselves killed.
Anyway, I'm gemming int/crit/spi on my red/yellow/blue colors for now. I don't need to race 4 other healers to heal up every bar to full as fast as possible before padding my overhealing meters any more.
While unreliable, crits make my day. Holy Shock crits and Daybreak are what really heal up bars quickly for me.
Post by
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Post by
pezz
They're changing that meta requirement. They've said it's on the list for the next patch.
Post by
bigheaded
Didn't mean to take my post so far off the OP's topic. Sorry.
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