[WoW] Battle for Azeroth - Page 485

Hey Guys,

I'm the priest who's armoury has been making the rounds "Xot", due to the green gear i've had equipped, so hoped i could make this thread to shed some light on the math behind this gear and why i'm using it.

Update: No i have not been reset https://gyazo.com/73336032ab31c41108e80708ff5d0b8b

First of all your goal is to aim for exactly 301 item level, as this is the sweet spot between the 300-400 ilevel scaling implemented by blizzard, having exactly 301 item level allows you to gain the full benefit of the scaling, How this works is that for every 1 point of stat you gain it's multiplied by 9 giving you 9 versa for every 1 point used sockets also work in this way, meaning for every 1 socket you gain 360 versa.

I choose to do this with versa because as a shadow i am inherently tanky and with edge of insanity providing 20% damage reduction, on top of my 10% from shadow form, i was able to get up to 70% versa on top of that, meaning now i have:

70% + 20% +10% = 100%.

Which if you do the math results in a 100% damage reduction, so basically i could ignore all damage by the enemy team resulting in me almost having god mode.

Although this might seem weak due to the poor stat allocation for shadow priest i am in turn able to gain increased benefit from my flat damage increase azerite traits still being 385 each providing a 3k increase to my Shadow Word: Pain for each item which i have 3 of so

3k + 3k + 3k = 9k

extra damage on top of my pain which already hits for 2030,

This means that my shadow word: pain actually now hits for 11,030 per tick, resulting in some insane damage.

Also due to how scaling works despite me having 100k health i take increased healing, when playing with a shaman his earth shield is healing me for 20% of my life per tick, and a single healing surge will top me.

So on top of taking 0 damage and dealing insane damage i'm also able to be healed to full in one single heal.

Actually, the entirety of what i just said is completely made up, i noticed i was high in every bracket so wanted to log out in the worst gear possible i could find to see how many people would actually fall for such a stupid idea, Yes i've tried it i queued one single game of 2v2 and no it isn't better infact it's completely useless when compared to normal gear with the correct stat allocation. However there is such thing as scaling, but it's not to the extent you think, just wear whatever gear you have with the best stats and highest item level. (although sockets are still worth a lot and azerite gear does benefit from lower item level, but it's not worth it at the cost of secondaries and int)

You can check games played in NORMAL gear on stream www.twitch.tv/xottv

TLDR: Decided to log off in green gear to see how many people would be silly enough to think i actually play in this gear. Results were overwhelming, there is no secret behind scaling just wear your best gear and don't blindly follow things you see as who knows, they might just be trolling!