dedzy
07-25-2008, 03:13 AM
Hi all,
My Druid recently got to 70 a few weeks ago and is still badly geared. But I'm planning ahead and would appreciate your input on this. As I understand it, conventional wisdom is to get 2/5 Wyrmhide on the 2 lowest item values in the set for the extra +35 Resilience (shoulders and hands). But is it really worth it?
This is what you would gain with 2/5 wormhide and what you would lose. I'm not going to get a 1950 rating this season, so I'll be comparing S2 shoulders and s4 hands.
Brutal Gladiator's Wyrmhide Gloves and Merciless Gladiator's Wyrmhide Spaulders
+38 resilience
+16 spell crit
82 +spell damage and healing
Brutal Gladiator's Kodohide Gloves and Merciless Gladiator's Kodohide Spaulders
+2 Stamina
+15 Intellect
+14 Armor
+4 Mana Per 5 seconds
139 +healing and +47 spell damage
+The casting time on your Regrowth spell is reduced by 0.2 sec
With my Restokin spec, and this probably extends to full Resto, I just don't see the Wyrmhide switch as being worth it: if you wanted more resilience, I'm pretty sure I can find a set of gems that will beat this tradeoff and still keep the set bonuses, regardless of how you value the different attributes.
My Druid recently got to 70 a few weeks ago and is still badly geared. But I'm planning ahead and would appreciate your input on this. As I understand it, conventional wisdom is to get 2/5 Wyrmhide on the 2 lowest item values in the set for the extra +35 Resilience (shoulders and hands). But is it really worth it?
This is what you would gain with 2/5 wormhide and what you would lose. I'm not going to get a 1950 rating this season, so I'll be comparing S2 shoulders and s4 hands.
Brutal Gladiator's Wyrmhide Gloves and Merciless Gladiator's Wyrmhide Spaulders
+38 resilience
+16 spell crit
82 +spell damage and healing
Brutal Gladiator's Kodohide Gloves and Merciless Gladiator's Kodohide Spaulders
+2 Stamina
+15 Intellect
+14 Armor
+4 Mana Per 5 seconds
139 +healing and +47 spell damage
+The casting time on your Regrowth spell is reduced by 0.2 sec
With my Restokin spec, and this probably extends to full Resto, I just don't see the Wyrmhide switch as being worth it: if you wanted more resilience, I'm pretty sure I can find a set of gems that will beat this tradeoff and still keep the set bonuses, regardless of how you value the different attributes.