Comments on: Why Pike Is A Bad Example for Gems: Confession Time

By: Gem sockets and the lies they tell at 2fps

Gem sockets and the lies they tell at 2fps — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:06:08 +0000

[...] a long time to get over this one in particular. I know there are a lot of other people out there (even Pike!) who struggle with this too. So let’s take a deep breath and say it together: I don’t [...]

By: Gem sockets and the lies they tell « two nation army

Gem sockets and the lies they tell « two nation army — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:28:22 +0000

By: Rilgon Arcsinh

Rilgon Arcsinh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:48:01 +0000

Wait… wait wait. Hold on just a darned minute here. You’re telling me that there are people out there who DON’T do this?

Yeah, I don’t. If the socket bonus isn’t better than the 8 Agility I’d lose by using a non-red gem, why gem for it? /boggle

Well, unless you’re Pike, who has an explained reasoning

By: Pike

Pike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:33:08 +0000

@ Echo – no worries at all, your comment in the last post provided a great springboard for me to make a post I’d been needing to make for a while! *nods*

By: Echo

Echo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:25:11 +0000

@ Kiryn – at a risk of sounding contrary you never know when a little bit of extra dps will cut the fight a little shorter meaning your healer doesn’t oom and your tank doesn’t die

@ Pike – I LOL’d when I saw you’d made a post about your gemming, v sorry.

By: Voldenmist

Voldenmist — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:11:29 +0000

Hi Pike!

Thank you for sharing and we’ll work through your problem together! ;D

By: Pike

Pike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:31:17 +0000

@ Lupius – I use Mammoth Cutters in raids and Frostbite Bullets on everything else. Though I have been known to break out the Mammoth Cutters when I am in a heroic and there is a particularly good hunter in the group (I get so competitive with other hunters that it’s silly… silly I say!)

I keep several, several stacks of both in my Ammo Pouch which yes, I still use *nods at Llyrra’s comment* =P

By: Kiryn

Kiryn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:26:10 +0000

I have never NOT matched sockets. Even when the bonus is something silly like stamina or resilience. I feel empty when those numbers are grayed out. But those times that a boss hits me and I end up surviving with 27 health left (which actually happened in Gundrak once) really justify this for me.

Of course, as a healer, blue and yellow stats aren’t useless to me, because it’s more balanced between output and regen, unlike you crazy DPSers. But even when playing my DPS alts, I don’t care if it lowers my DPS a little. You never know when a little more stamina might save your life.

By: Jarnow

Jarnow — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:22:22 +0000

Well the macro in the linked post *does* work just fine (with properly named ammo). It uses blue ammo on bosses (lvl ??) and white ammo on everything else (including the 82′s, which I want to use good ammo on). I just want *another* condition in addition to the one.

By: Kedearian

Kedearian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:05:52 +0000

@jarnow – you cant do conditionals in macros anymore, they took that out with.. i think 2.0. unfortuantly, addons also cant do any “logic” in combat you you are stuck having to manually change ammo.