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Feral Kitty DPS for 4.3
Acknowledgements
Special thanks go out to the previous maintainers of the guide: Toskk, Demoneater and Yawning.
Thanks also go to Mihir, Leafkiller and Alaron their help with various theorycrafting.
Summary of Changes for 4.3
1. The 10% Attack Power raid buff will be increased to 20%. This is supposed to close the gap between melee and ranged DPS that is very apparent for several bosses with movement. A nice little boost. Not going to change much for what we do except Agility increases its lead over the secondary stats.
2. 2x Tier 13 bonus allows Blood in the Water to be used at under 60% instead of 25%, which is a substantial DPS boost.
3. 4x Tier 13 bonus allows Stampede to be activated whenever Tiger’s Fury is used. Note that with this bonus, there is now a slight change in our priority – You must now spend your Stampede buff (if it is up) BEFORE activating Tiger’s Fury.
4. Glyph of Shred has become Glyph of Bloodletting, and now works for both Mangle and Shred. The intention of this change is to reduce the penalty whenever we are forced to Mangle instead of Shred. Unfortunately, even with this change, Glyph of Bloodletting is still inferior to Glyph of Berserk, Glyph of Mangle and Glyph of Rip for mangle-spam encounters (Hi Ultraxion!), so this change really does nothing for us. This has been tested with 4T12, 2T12+2T13 and 4T13.
5. Glyph priority has not changed - Glyph of Bloodletting is still better than Glyph of Tiger's Fury even with 4T13 bonus.
6. Added trinket ranking list to the guide
Contents
1. Stats - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#2
- 1.1 Primary Stats
- 2.1 Secondary Stats
2. Gear - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#3
- 2.1 Gems
- 2.2 Enchants
- 2.3 Set Bonuses
- 2.4 Secondary Stats - Choice and Reforging
- 2.5 Trinkets
3. Talents - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#4
4. Glyphs - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#5
5. Abilities - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#6
6. Strategy - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#7
- 6.1 Single Target - Simplified
- 6.2 Single Target - Advanced
- 6.3 Few Targets
- 6.4 Many Targets
- 6.5 Switching Targets
7. Consumables - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#8
8. Professions - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#9
9. Advanced Topics - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#10
Appendices
A: Frequently Asked Questions - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#14
B: Changelogs - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#15
C: Third Party Resources - http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2089200852#16
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