Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Survival Build: Black Arrow + Resourcefulness

On the current version of the PTR (9614), the benefit from Resourcefulness does, in fact, impact the cooldown of Black Arrow, lowering it to 24 seconds. This allows for 62.5% uptime on the LnL proc DOT (rather than 50% without Resourcefulness).

This pushes me to favor a Survival build along the lines of this one. Along with the points in Resourcefulness, this build drops three points into the revised Hunting Party, which now grants 3% agility in addition to its current mana-battery effects. The bonus from Hunting Party multiplies your total agility *after* the Lightning Reflexes bonus (15%), which is lovely.

So, the formula looks like

Agi * 1.15 * 1.03 (as opposed to Agi * 1.18)

If you start out with 990 agility, Lightning Reflexes brings you up to 1138, and Hunting Party takes you to 1172. Nice.

Not-so-nice things about this build: No Improved Aspect of the Hawk, only one point in Go for the Throat. There are a lot more crits to be found in a Survival build, but not 50% more, so Imeut (the black not-Pitch lion) is likely to be pretty focus-starved. /grumble

Also. Sea Kodo! <3

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