Does anyone have any idea what Shadow Priests must do now?
I've heard so many different stories, 40% haste and around 16 mastery rating seems to be the best atm.
For PvE*
In order to find out a decent % of haste you need to find the optimal haste breakpoints between each DoT
The forumula for this is:
100% divided by the amount of ticks a dot has
Half this amount to find the first additional tick
multiply the halfed amount by 3, 5 , 7, 9, 11 going up in 2 each time to find out the next individual breakpoint
in terms this would be:
100 / T / 2 = 1st Tick
(100 / T / 2) x 3 = 2nd Tick
(100 / T / 2 ) x 5 = 3rd Tick
Where 100 = 100%, T = Ticks
I did you a favour and figured out every single shadow priest breakpoint upto 150% as this is the amount of haste you will have with all haste buffs, witching hourglass and bloodlust up
Vampiric Touch: 5 Ticks with 0% haste
1st Tick = 10%
2nd Tick = 30%
3rd Tick = 50%
4th Tick = 70%
5th Tick = 90%
6th Tick = 110%
7th Tick = 130%
8th Tick = 150%
Devouring Plague: 8 Ticks with 0% haste
1st Tick = 6.25% Haste
2nd Tick = 18.75% Haste
3rd Tick = 31.25% Haste
4th Tick = 43.75% Haste
5th Tick = 56.25% Haste
6th Tick = 68.75% Haste
7th Tick = 81.25% Haste
8th Tick = 93.75% Haste
9th Tick = 106.25% Haste
10th Tick = 118.75% Haste
11th Tick = 131.25% Haste
12th Tick = 143.75% Haste
Shadow Word Pain : 6 Initial Ticks with 0% haste
1st Tick = 8.33% Haste
2nd Tick = 25% Haste
3rd Tick = 41.67% haste
4th Tick = 58.33% Haste
5th Tick = 75% Haste
6th Tick = 91.67% Haste
7th Tick = 108.33% Haste
8th Tick = 125% Haste
9th Tick = 141.67% Haste
Find an optimal Haste between all three and aim for that, this pretty much means at the certain % haste you'll get x amount of extra ticks.
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