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Strength Discussion for Kitty DPS.
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neiljwd
Sorry to waste a topic on this, but Ive gone back pages of topics and found no topic title with strength in it.
Everyone knows strength is a bad stat for cats, but can anyone link me to the discussion/page please?
Got a friend insisting it's great for kitties, that so for levelling 80-85.
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129046
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Post by
Falkor
the only reason to take a str based dps item (which should only be an issue on jewelery - neck, rinks, trinkets - since afaik there is no more str based leather) would be if it is a very significant ilvl upgrade from the agility one.
based on relative stat values str is actually very close to agility. but agility is still superior due to gaining crit and dodge as well as attack power (and +heals if you do have NI). so, if ilvls are equal, or even close (5-10 ilvls?), take the agi gear.
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Falkor
Thank you falkor for saying exactly what Nnoutaja said.
actually he said "there should really
never
be a moment where you really need to choose between agi and str." which isn't exactly true.
if the str gear is a (lot) higher ilvl it can be an upgrade. or if it's the same ilvl but the agi piece has...oh, say hit/exp but the str piece has crit/haste and mastery, could be an upgrade.
str is actually surprisingly close to agi if you look at the RSV, so i was merely expanding on nnoutaja's comments.
Post by
Nipah
Thank you falkor for saying exactly what Nnoutaja said.
actually he said "there should really
never
be a moment where you really need to choose between agi and str." which isn't exactly true.
if the str gear is a (lot) higher ilvl it can be an upgrade. or if it's the same ilvl but the agi piece has...oh, say hit/exp but the str piece has crit/haste and mastery, could be an upgrade.
str is actually surprisingly close to agi if you look at the RSV, so i was merely expanding on nnoutaja's comments.
Yeah... I can see that.
While leveling a Shaman in Hyjal, I was replacing some really terrible AGI gear (as in, starter zone Wrath gear I quested too fast to replace) with a few STR pieces because the increase in the other stats was too good to pass up (100~ expertise & 100~ crit, plus 100 more stamina than what I had? Yes, I'll sacrifice 75 AGI for that).
That being said, the odds of that happening without the problem I mentioned (speeding through content at the speed of light) are very rare, and looking at the problem I mentioned, it only happens at the beginning of expansion content, so you'll have the problem maybe 3 times (entering Outland, entering Northrend, and entering Vashj'ir/Hyjal).
Not saying it doesn't happen, but odds are good that it won't be such a clear cut upgrade unless you're severely undergeared.
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Falkor
If you look closely I didn't say "never" anywhere on my post.
That said Therazane reputation rings might be a situation where you buy both the agi and str rings, if you are going the DPS route to the endgame.
touche...for some reason i read read never somewhere in there, ah well.
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