Is shockadin still effective at 70-80?

Post by 128214

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Post by jeddic

Quoted from other threads.

I agree with spikeh. Shockadin died with patch 3.x. Removal of sanctity aura, Spellpower coefficients being nerfed for seals and judgements, most offensive abilities stacking better from AP, ret and prot are fixed. If you want burst and some limited healing ability go ret. As far as your build goes you're missing out on SPH from holy guidance. You have Judgements of the wise, are you planning on stacking INT and SPH or AP? Either way you're losing out on alot of potential damage from the other source.
And:
Shockadin used to rely on larger damage from SPH affecting seals and Sanctity Aura mainly. Both of those have been removed from the game, thus, shockadin has been removed from the game. Go with ret, better burst damage, the same survivability and some healing. Or go holy, but you won't get the damage.

Also Holy Guidance' offensive power has been nerfed. And Judgements have a GCD.
So yeah, not really.

Post by Pyramids

Most builds go Holy until Holy Shock (really?) and then fill Ret for the rest of the way, usually ending on Fanaticism for its crit bonus to have I think a 63% crit chance minimum for judgements, or something like that. Some dude did all the math on his blog, idk where though, and I don't have the time to recreate.

Dual Shockies (i.e. 2v2 Arena) can burst at a little over 10,000 max dmg in 3 seconds with alright gear nowadays. I'm sure that St. Google can guide your unenlightened feet to that guy's blog, but when I searched for it just now, I couldn't find it. Disappointing, but I'm sure it's out there.

Don't be afraid to experiment a little bit, or at the very least just fiddle with some numbers, if you trust your math. Sometimes, you can find a nice little exploit you can take advantage of with your character build. 'Course some people interpret that as "Lemme try a 0/1/0 spec;" try to avoid that mindset by having some numbers to justify a 20g respec.

P.S. I don't really think Shockadin counts as OMG EXPLOIT, but you get my drift: Mess around a little, it's a game, play it. For all you know, you'll start a Shockie revolution.

Is shockadin still effective at 70-80?

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