Socketing for PVPFollow

Red: 8 Agi
Yellow: 8 hit til 79 hit rating, 4 crit/8 AP after
Blue: 4 Agi/6 stam

meta: 24 AP/minor run speed

Stam to boots until you break 10k HP easily.

I'd still get 12 stam.

Only thing else I'd get is Surefooted.

I've socketed a good majority of my red gems with raw attack power (+16/+20). My rogue is 20/0/41 ShS Mace spec atm. Would 8 agility be better in the long run? With all my gems he is sitting at 1728 AP unbuffed. His agility is at 481.In a PvP perspective, would it be better to stick with the AP or start stacking agility?

armory link: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Area+52&n=Ongboklichan

Damn I didn't realize my hit dropped that low when I switched out my gear. Thanks for bringing that to light. I can easily switch out two pieces of gear and get that 79 hit rating. On that note, what are the pros and cons in comparison to Agility and Raw AP in regards to PvP?

The dodge and armor isn't a reason to take Agi over AP ever. It's the crit and Sinister Calling that make it worthwhile; BoK in PvE.

I boosted my hit to 79, then switched out my AP gems with +8 agil as mentioned. I went and immediately tested it in the arena and bgs. Folks it's good stuff. Granted I lost about 40 AP, but gained 32 agil (before Sinister Calling calculations). A significant boost in crit occured, but on a survival note, dodge chance increased. Now thats for a ShS Mace spec rogue in 4 s1 pieces in 1 vengeful. Not sure how it will pan out for other specs or rogues with tons of agility as it is (t/5 or t/6 gear).

ShS Rogues in paticular can get along with low resilience because even with say 250 resilience most people will still burst another target, as you are so hard to kill with CloS, Evasion and Cheat Death.

What about Meta gems?

Swift Skyfire Diamond is good for the +24 AP but idk about the minor run speed increase. Do you really need that? Im full on Arena and im almost done with bg's.

For a sHs wouldn't Relentless Earthstorm Diamond be better? 12 agi and 3% increased crit damage.

Enigmatic Skyfire Diamond is even nice too. +12 to crit rating and %5 Snare and Root Resist. That sounds like it would be great for arena.

Which one is the best?

Even for arena? I figured the snare resist would help alot. I already have "surefooted" on my boots tho.

What about Relentless Earthstorm Diamond?

That's a s1/2 setup.

No rogues gem for stam anymore.

Every rogue should have Surefooted on their boots, but only Mut rogues will see the true benefit of stacking snare resist (FF + meta + Surefooted), and since FF is a runspeed by itself, there's no reason to pick up another runspeed.

But ShS needs runspeed. That's the reason for the AP meta, because you're going to want the 10 hit and snare resist from Surefooted on your boots.

The 24 AP (24.24 after Deadliness) helps too.

So, as noted before, these are the enchants/gems you want to be using:

Gems
Red: 8 Agi
Yellow: 8 hit until you hit 79 hit, then 4 crit/8 AP
Blue: there are none in our gear, LOL!
Meta: 24 AP/runspeed (Mut: 12 crit/5% snare resist)

Enchants
Head: CE
Chest: 150 HP or 15 resilience
Wrist: 24 AP
Gloves: 15 Agi, 26 AP if you're poor
Pants: 50 AP/12 crit
Boots: Surefooted

EDIT: Oh, also, don't get the Vindicator's Leather Bracers. They suck compared to the feral druid ones.

Edited, Mar 14th 2008 3:57pm by Theophany

Honestly if you have the Vind Leather, don't bother; use your honor for something else. It's not that big of a difference.

Ignore this message.

Edited, Mar 16th 2008 4:52pm by Kavekk