With Cataclysm looming ever larger on the horizon – I’d be surprised if we don’t see it around November/December time – the series on how primary stats work for elemental finally gets around to the less important stats. Except they’re actually really important, and will get more so when Cataclysm launches. Wait, what? No, that’s … Continue reading
Welcome back to the series on elemental stats. Following two posts on the subject of spell haste, we now move on to a rather simpler stat – critical strike rating. Critical strike rating is one of two stats on our gear that increase our chance to get a critical strike. The other is intellect, but … Continue reading
This is part two of a series on stats and, by remarkable coincidence, also part two of a post on the haste stat. How very convenient. The previous post dealt in some depth with the ins and outs of haste as a stat, particularly the question of whether it was subject to “caps” or potential … Continue reading
This is the first post in a series on our primary DPS stats – which are Hit Rating, Spellpower, Haste Rating, Critical Strike Rating and Intellect. Yes, they’re all yellow stats except Spellpower. No, I’m not dealing with them in that order. Yes, Zing already talked about all this in a much more concise post. … Continue reading