Which Meta gem for Raiding ? (dps)

Post by Prophex

Got my first head item with a meta gem slot today and was wondering what type of gem I should place into it. Any thoughts ?

I'm guessing it's either one of these 2:
Invigorating Earthsiege Diamond
Chaotic Skyflare Diamond

Last raid I had about 60% crit with my obliterate, so I'm more reluctant to go for the AP-gem, however, the 3% increased crit. dmg seems very nice aswell, What do you guys think ?

I'm Blood specced btw.

Post by ZeroXposur

Post by Noyomo

Relentless Earthsiege is also good. http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41398, since it buffs both AP and Crit chance. It's all personal preference. I'm going to aim for the http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41285 personally.

The first meta does nothing for AP, just ups crit to a lower extent then the pure crit gem does, so overall the pure crit gem is better, depending on how you gem.

Edit: it's almost always better to go for the gems that have + crit damage on them, then AP for PvE dps.

Post by ZeroXposur

My apologies...

Increases attack power with ranged weapons (not including wands) or melee weapons for certain classes.

* Warriors, hunters and rogues gain 1 ranged attack power for each point of agility.
* Hunters, rogues, shamans (as of 3.0.2) and druids in Cat Form gain 1 melee attack power per point of agility.

Guess we really do have to rely on brute strength for AP. My mistake. I'm still going for the +21 crit rating gem. :P

Edit: I was partially correct. www.ElitistJerks.com

-->Agility also increases our armor by 2 armor per agility. As an interesting side effect from this, if specced for Bladed Armor Agility will indirectly increase your Attack Power. Every point of Agility will increase your Attack Power by 1/18 or 18 Agility will increase your Attack Power by 1.<--

Is it worth wasting the Meta for a little over 1 AP, no, but I was partially correct, so HA: End Edit

Which Meta gem for Raiding ? (dps)

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