Spec Change.. Again!

This is the fun of MMOs, you get to change your mind over and over. So, I’m level 30 right now and I’ve been doing some guild-group Tier3 PvP with friends on and off. I was previously specced into Kiss of Doom in Suffering and the rest of my points in Carnage, giving me Elixir of Insane Power at 30 and not much else.

I changed my spec last night to this. I was dreading losing Kiss of Doom, but I found that it was a crutch I was able to give up. I’ll spec back into it once I hit 34, but it’s pretty easy to live without to be honest. I’m now strongly contemplating this spec for 40. I know; giving up Black Lotus Blade is blasphemy, but here’s the thing – I’ve lived without it for the last 30 levels and although I keep telling myself (and everyone else) ‘oh, you gotta have it’ – most people (sub 40) only have it in their level 40 specs, not their day to day specs. I already know I can kill healers quickly without it and while I think there are a lot of situations where it would be very useful, I’m starting to think that I can probably survive without it. I might change my mind soon, but we’ll see.

So, the real nice thing about this spec is you get Elixir of the Cauldron (arguably the strongest elixir), you get to keep Kiss of Doom and you get On Your Knees and Pierce Armor.

I got to actually try out Pierce Armor last night and it’s great. I would typically pop it at 4 bloodlust since I’d have an ailment on my target by that time; it was typically hitting for around 500 which is pretty significant damage. I’d then do Ruthless Assault (or On Your Knees, depending on the situation) and take advantage of the armor debuff for my finisher.

Wow. A flat armor reduction doesn’t seem like that much but against our usual targets, it makes a BIG difference.

On Your Knees is also a great finisher – one of the nice things that I didn’t realize is that it doesn’t require a target to go off, so if someone is running from you and they’re just out of range you can run a little behind them and hit it as they reach their group, knock them all down and finish your target off. It has a lot of uses in all kinds of situations – I used it to take the bauble back in Tor Anroc quite a few times and it can save you when you get mobbed. I’m also now a 100% advocate of the Whirling Blades tactic – when you’re using On Your Knees, it’s great to be able to rebuild your bloodlust quickly, and getting to 5 bloodlust as fast as possible really helps reduce your AP drain, since a 5 point Ruthless Assault is free. I’m debating even getting Kiss of Doom at 40, to be honest – perhaps putting those 3 points into Carnage to maximum my Carnage skill damage and slotting the +50% crit damage tactic instead. We’ll see how that goes.

I’ll be running this spec for a few more days to test it out, but I noticed my TTK decrease with this build, even without Kiss of Doom.

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~ by That One Guy on October 23, 2008.