Kyrsten

So really there's only two choices:

Smoldering Combative Buckle - +30 combat art damage
and
Smoldering Spry Buckle - Increases Attack Speed by 3

At first I was thinking the +30 CA, but after thinking more about it talking to some people, I'm wondering if it really is the right choice. We really only have 6 things in the Combat Art section of the spellbook (Sinister Strike, Deprivating Shot, Siphon Blade, Scream of Blood, Shriek Blade, Grim Strike, and Vile Blade) and with at least 40% of our dps being auto attack...

Any input?

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Cronoise

I <3 +CAdmg

Doomjudge

CA dmg being fabled and haste being legendary I'd take haste but that's just poor guy like me

veloct

I took the haste at this time.

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Vacilli

I finally got my Sarnak Utility Belt last night, thanks to Kyros for the tip on Killing Jinisk Citizens for quick faction, and added the +30 CA adorn.

kyros

np... just figured i'd let you know, since i did the repeatable faction quest about 10 times before i killed killed the jinisk lord guy for a shot at loot and realized that you got renegade faction for it... definitely a much faster method of getting faction up.

also, i would go with +30 ca damage. a few of our cas are pretty quick on the recast, and i believe that that 30 damage gets added in before crit is calculated. so you stack a bunch of ca damage up, and it should help your overall dps more than a few more points of attack speed.

just my thoughts.

Dants

Here's the breakdown:

Assume dirge DPS is 2500.
Assume Autoattack is 40% of DPS.

Autoattack DPS = 2500 * .4 = 1000 DPS

Since haste is on a 1 / (1 + x) diminishing curve and considering a normal raidbuffed dirge is at about 55 haste with 4.0 delay weapons (Although delay doesn't change the output at all - just for calculation purposes):

4 / (1 + 55/100) = 2.58
4 / (1 + 55/100) = 2.53

100 - 2.58/4.0 * 100 = 35.48% increase to Autoattack damage.
100 - 2.53/4.0 * 100 = 36.71% increase to Autoattack damage.

Net gain from 3% haste in this scenario = 36.71% - 35.48% = 1.22% Autoattack increase.

So finally:

1000 * 1.22/100 = 12.25 DPS increase.

Since we accounted for a fully debuffed mob in the above calculation, 30 CA damage = ~60 to all CA's.

So the question is, do you use a CA every ~4.9 seconds? I'd say yes and that +CA is slightly better, although definately comparable to the +Haste. Also consider that the haste would be less effective vs higher level mobs since your hitrate would be less and AutoAttack wouldn't account for 1000 DPS.

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Laromir

I went with the +haste adornment simply because of the cost. But since I am mostly in the DPS group with both a zerker and an Inq present, then I very often hit 150%+ haste... atleast in bursts.... so I am definately considering the 30 CA damage adornment.

Slight derail of thread....
What is the general opinion about the 30 CA damage wrist (bracelet) adornments versus the very cheap STR ones. Are they worth the extra brass... are they even worth it at all?

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Mellody

It's seems alway worth checking the dirge board as a Troub ;)
Is there anything worth to keep Jinisk faction up at all? I don't want to regret killing those poor peops ;)

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Laromir

If you are a Sword'n'Board type person, then there is a shield on the Jinisk faction merchant...
\aITEM -270910760 499716061:Roundshield of Deft Flanking\/a
... otherwise there isnt really anything worth the brass.

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