[Kimina]

What's your major? I'm a B.S. Computer Engineering/M. Software Engineering

[Charlagain]

Couple of questions:

- Why Glyph of Howling Blast instead of Glyph of Disease?

- Why are you using a fast off-hand? DW builds used the slowest off-hand possible.

- Your Sons of Hodir rep is only Honored. Small thing, yeah, but why haven't you maxed it out for the shoulder enchant?

- Most raiders try to min-max. To that end, why don't you have any professions?

[Wrathblood]

I like the tone of the app quite a bit, but charlagain asks some good questions (romancing, count yourself lucky he restrained himself to a single digit's worth of questions). We look for an attitude as much or more than a gearscore, and a lack of hodir rep (and professions even more so) is a big red flag. Spend a few hours leveling skinning to 450 at least. Its a crappy bonus, but its better than nothing, its free, and the heavy borean leather you get is about to become a lot more valuable. Then sell the leather and use the money to level JC or something that's useful.

Kimi, I'll take a wild stab and say he's a biochem major. Call it a hunch.

[Puddingcup]

what does min-max mean? Karela said something having to do with my "min-maxing butt"

[Charlagain]

As for offhand speed, I can't find the post on EJ now but I recall it was something like each 0.1 decrease in speed is equivalent to 50 DPS on the weapon. Take the Reaper of Dark Souls, an Ebon Blade rep reward. It's 2.7 speed and 130 DPS. A 1.5 speed weapon (1.2 seconds faster) would have to be 730 DPS to be a better choice (1.2 seconds * 50). Yes, that's how bad a fast weapon is.

As for professions, they certainly aren't required, but most people will do what they can to squeeze every last drop out of their character. With JC for example, you'd be gaining 42 strength by upgrading 3 gems to Dragon's Eyes. I can't tell you that's worth leveling JC to 450 but in the sense that all it takes to get there is money, it doesn't seem like the barrier to getting there is very high.

Biochemistry and working at Intel? Are you on the Terminator project or what? Please make them not hate humans!

[Puddingcup]

Charlagain, on Nov 10 2009, 11:29 AM, said:

As for offhand speed, I can't find the post on EJ now but I recall it was something like each 0.1 decrease in speed is equivalent to 50 DPS on the weapon. Take the Reaper of Dark Souls, an Ebon Blade rep reward. It's 2.7 speed and 130 DPS. A 1.5 speed weapon (1.2 seconds faster) would have to be 730 DPS to be a better choice (1.2 seconds * 50). Yes, that's how bad a fast weapon is.

As for professions, they certainly aren't required, but most people will do what they can to squeeze every last drop out of their character. With JC for example, you'd be gaining 42 strength by upgrading 3 gems to Dragon's Eyes. I can't tell you that's worth leveling JC to 450 but in the sense that all it takes to get there is money, it doesn't seem like the barrier to getting there is very high.

Biochemistry and working at Intel? Are you on the Terminator project or what? Please make them not hate humans!

I always thought the weapon speed was inversely related to the damage per hit. But I don't know the system used for scaling melee damage so pretend I never said anything.

[Forte]

Oshibo, on Nov 10 2009, 10:24 AM, said:

what does min-max mean? Karela said something having to do with my "min-maxing butt"

Min-maxing is a term that originated from Tabletop RPGs and crossed over to MMOs. It means you're doing everything in your power to make your character the strongest. Think Red Mage in Final Fantasy - Can use Swords, White magic AND Black magic. It's also worthy to note that this term usually has a negative connotation in the Tabletop world, as you're often so focused on how strong your character is that they end up devoid of any personality.

[Puddingcup]

Fort, on Nov 10 2009, 02:17 PM, said:

Min-maxing is a term that originated from Tabletop RPGs and crossed over to MMOs. It means you're doing everything in your power to make your character the strongest. Think Red Mage in Final Fantasy - Can use Swords, White magic AND Black magic. It's also worthy to note that this term usually has a negative connotation in the Tabletop world, as you're often so focused on how strong your character is that they end up devoid of any personality.

So basically Karela said that Civic and I are too obsessed with beefing up our toons and lost our sense of selves? Sad day.

[Kimina]

Wrathblood, on Nov 10 2009, 08:04 AM, said:

Kimi, I'll take a wild stab and say he's a biochem major. Call it a hunch.

I fail

[Charlagain]

Wrathblood said:

(romancing, count yourself lucky he restrained himself to a single digit's worth of questions)

Heh, Wrath, the number of questions I pose is inversely related to the quality of the app.


However, I thought of another good question on the way home today: why do you have so much +hit gear, when the cap is 8%?

Please let Romancing answer, none of you nutjobs pipe in, because you'll probably be wrong.

[Forte]

Charlagain, on Nov 10 2009, 05:18 PM, said:

Heh, Wrath, the number of questions I pose is inversely related to the quality of the app.


However, I thought of another good question on the way home today: why do you have so much +hit gear, when the cap is 8%?

Please let Romancing answer, none of you nutjobs pipe in, because you'll probably be wrong.

If there's one thing I know, it's DK DPS. Needs moar Spellpower IMO.

[Charlagain]

Romancing, on Nov 10 2009, 06:36 PM, said:

Lol, so much hit, because to be honest, the biggest upgrades I could get at the time, always had hit. I'm trying to get two new trinkets actually... to upgrade the ilevel 200, and to replace my hit trinket.

Fair enough. How much hit rating/percent are you aiming for?