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For those of you doing BWL and AQ40, what are you maintaining as far as RAP, Crit %, Hit %?

It is very easy for us to achieve near 30% crit rate but at what point do you think it tops off? I currently sit at +9% Hit, 27ish crit and almost 1400RAP unbuffed. We have a wide choice of weapons to choose from, Brutality Blade/CHT/Doom's Edge/Chromatically tempered Sword/Main Hand Hakkari/Off Hand Hakkari/Fang of Faceless. Which weapons to you typically use for the stats and why? I know Rooke put up an insightful post on how defense lowers our crit rate, so at what point is crit % needed to be to maintain above 25% on a 63 elite? I use 25% crit because it is basically a 1 in 4 crit where are anything less is approaching 1 in 5. In the short term for fights that last only a minute or so and the mob needs to be dispatched it can make a difference with 4 other hunters shooting it as well.

My gear is currently DS helm/legs/shoulders/wrist
GS Chest/feet/waist/hands
Cloak of shrouded mists
Brut Blade and the new +13 agi weapon from the silithus quest.
DM trinket and Blackhand's Breadth trinket.
Quick strike ring and mason's Fraternity ring

I'm still gearing up in a sense but what is the experience of those who are at the top of the raiding pyramid so to speak.

Thanks

My crit rate is usually in the 26-28% range, depending on buffs. I've never really striven for crit %, nor shunned it, so I'd say if you have more you may be over-emphasizing it for PvE.

My profile needs updating so I can't tell you my current AP off the top of my head, but it was at or about 1600 at the raid the other day (with Kings and all the other jazz, plus a 15 agi potion.) I think it's around 1350 with just Hawk.

I used the first two melee weapons off that list I was able to obtain without pissing off the rogues and warriors in the guild. I got a Doom's Edge, and then a Core Hound Tooth the day after. The best combo for raw DPS is usually MH Hakkari and FotF, but anything off that list is fine except, I would say, the Chromatically Tempered Sword. (That's a total sword rogue or fury warrior weapon.)




Full GS, have passed on DS pieces for guildmates
CoSM
BB + DE
DM trinket and BB
Circle of Applied Force + Jin rings (AQ faction pending)
Prestor's Talisman
Ashjre'thul

Going from memory;
RAP: 1499
Crit: 24.88
To Hit: +8

Scorpid Assay should never be an essential. Too much work to farm one, and if you die, it's gone. The only time you would really want to put that work in is to put you over the edge on an encounter you are learning and very well could die.

499 Agi
29.45% crit
1515 atkpwr selfbuffed

You are a model citizen to farmers everywhere. That stuff takes forever to put together.


The one time I farmed for a BL buff, I was pretty sure I only got the potion and not the buff added to it. You only get the buff from turning it in the first time.