I was thinking of making an Uber Abberoth specific setup for pure boss dps. Normally I use Reign of Winter , but Im considering using a LP3 Gathering Fury with the dead eye mod ( critstrike chance / attack speed ) but im not sure what the other prefix should be slammed for pure boss dps. The 1 hopeful suffix slam will be cold penetration.
Which prefix will pump out more damage and why?
Crit multiplier
Cold damage
Bow attack speed
Bow cold damage
Any help is appreciated, thank you !
Also, does anyone know if Frozen Splinter ( heartseeker tree ) works properly? I ask this because even though my cold res is way over the cap , my cold penetration only says 21% ( from gear/ idols ). I would think that number should be much higher, and if it actually is , it doesnt show it.
Not a rogue expert, so can’t give advice on that. Maybe @TriKster can chime in.
But I can answer one of your questions:
This would not show on your character sheet, because that only shows generic unconditional, skill unspecific stats.
The Node Frozen Splinter only gives Heartseeker Cold Penetration, not other skills or your character.
I would assume this nodes works as intended, but you could relatively easy test this on a Target Dummy. Target Dummies have noe +/-20% damage variance and it should be very apparent if such node works or doesn’t work.
Hard to say because i usually just test my stuff and compare numbers on a dummy.
But i would go hybrid crit/att speed & crit multi.
2nd choice would probably be hybrid crit/att speed and attack speed.
But it also depends on the T5-T7 mods because some affixes have more value on higher tiers.
Bow cold will only benefit HS itself and not the icicle procs.
With gathering fury i think we alrdy have enough att speed so here crit multi or bow cold would make more sense next to the hybrid crit mod.
Again…this is something you need to test. I dont cheat my chars in offline mode and we dont have a dmg calc yet.
Generic cold dmg is just another inc dmg source which we already have alot from dex scaling (4% per dex), sharpshooter buff, cold dmg on gear and blessing.
My general rule is:
Flat dmg>multipliers (crit)>inc dmg
Attack speed depends on the skill itself but for HS it has high value (low mana cost).
Frozen Splinter works fine, its just not being displayed in the char sheet as Heavy mentioned.
