Plankeye
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Its official. I am dropping out of tanking to pursue my career as a Shockadin. I may never be invited to a raid again past kara but those 3k Holy Shock Crits are just to intoxicating to give up.
Shocking isn't it
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thats a lot of aggro
Plankeye
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I was spec'd 40/0/21 so I didn't have the bonus to Righteous Fury but it still generates a lot of threat. I had salvation running during kara and was hounding the tanks on threat when I would trinket, wings, consecrate then holy wrath tee hee hee.
Avesther
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I'm sure the idea that they were generally new, inexperienced and severly undergeared compared to you, didn't help.
CGamer
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GoGo Shocky power, one day we will rock the PvP world Sandric
Plankeye
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Upgraded a few more pieces and was able to get 1200 spell damage and 27% spell crit for a kara run last night. Was putting out just shy of 600 dps on average with a 40 Holy/21 Retribution spec. With more practice I could probably up that to about 650-700 dps with better timed use of my trinkets and wings as I missed a lot of extra damage from them. I think I could tack on another 50-100 spell damage but I am running out of plate upgrades aside from S2 and S3 pvp gear. Anyone have suggestions for easy to obtain trinkets with spell damage/spell crit as those are my lowest level items now?
Don't worry, this is my pvp and Kara DPS build only as I love tanking to much to give it up. Just curious to see how far I can min/max this build for Kara.
Don't worry, this is my pvp and Kara DPS build only as I love tanking to much to give it up. Just curious to see how far I can min/max this build for Kara.
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sweet!
Azami
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Do you consider Icon of the Silver Crescent "easy to obtain" at 41 badges? It'd be a pretty good upgrade.
Plankeye
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I did end up snagging it. It is pretty nice.
Plankeye
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WotLK, Holy Shock now on a 6 second cool down. Might make shockadin builds a lot more viable DPSers?
There are also some additional damage and manage regen abilities in the Ret tree. My future shockadin PvE build might look like this:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=sEV0xhzhizMxZZVf0xhczuh
There are also some additional damage and manage regen abilities in the Ret tree. My future shockadin PvE build might look like this:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=sEV0xhzhizMxZZVf0xhczuh
Plankeye
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Further proof Shockadins are 1337:
Jason Franklin
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Okay, what the heck is a Shockadin?
Plankeye
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40/0/21 build that goes into holy for improvements to Seal of Righteousness, Spell Damage/crit increases and the main reason, Holy Shock. Retribution you go into for the mana conservation on judgments and 10% improved holy damage.
Shockadins can have some sick burst because judging does not use a global cool down so you can judge and shock at the same time which can do a lot of damage if you have your wings out and trinkets enabled. Saw a video the other day of a shockadin dropping an instant 8,000 damage on a target. Which usually puts someone in range of a Hammer of Justice all in 4-5 seconds of time. The burst is only available every 3 minutes and dependant on critting so Shockadins are not over powered. The real nice thing is a shockadin is a very capable healer stacking spell crit and enough spell damage to still heal inbetween shock/judgement bursts.
I giggle a little every time I one shot someone as a sword and board pally.
Shockadins can have some sick burst because judging does not use a global cool down so you can judge and shock at the same time which can do a lot of damage if you have your wings out and trinkets enabled. Saw a video the other day of a shockadin dropping an instant 8,000 damage on a target. Which usually puts someone in range of a Hammer of Justice all in 4-5 seconds of time. The burst is only available every 3 minutes and dependant on critting so Shockadins are not over powered. The real nice thing is a shockadin is a very capable healer stacking spell crit and enough spell damage to still heal inbetween shock/judgement bursts.
I giggle a little every time I one shot someone as a sword and board pally.