Cellic Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I was curious on your guy's opinions on the primary stats for Carnage spec'd marauders and why. I just switched to Carnage from Rage and I'm not sure whether to go full crit/surge or more towards power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumri Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Crit/Surge until you're hitting DR too hard and then focus on Power. You should have enough accuracy even without going after accuracy gear/mods. Stats have too much DR and scale off each other too much for there to be definitive weights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badsicilian Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Forgive my asking, but why crit/surge? After every massacre you pump out you get a 100% chance for a force scream crit, which should be lined up with gore as often as possible, with this in mind why not then go for power/surge? Is this because it doesn't exist on the epic gear? As artifice I can make enhancement mods with power/surge, these are what I have been stacking in my gear. Granted my gear is for the most part what i dinged with with the exception of champ relics x2 champ offhand and an earpiece and implant/bracers, so not much in the realm of moddable items from bags as of yet. Haven't spent much time looking at the itemization of the pvp and raid gear yet though, this is possibly why the crit/surge part arises? Bad itemization on epic gear? Any insight into my thinking is much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacerdos Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Because Massacre and Ataru Procs get boosted crit damage as well and are a major part of your total damage. I'm seconding the first poster - Crit rating to 400 and Surge to 250, which are about when DR kicks in hard, and then try to balance them while getting power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badsicilian Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Because Massacre and Ataru Procs get boosted crit damage as well and are a major part of your total damage. I'm seconding the first poster - Crit rating to 400 and Surge to 250, which are about when DR kicks in hard, and then try to balance them while getting power. I guess my flaw then is that I am thinking in terms of pvp, where you have limited time on a target, I don't find myself noticing massacre/ataru procs too much in that case, I just use the massacre for the free scream crit and then move on. I never even realized that massacre/ataru got increased crit damage from talents, but with this in mind the crit stacking makes much more sense. Thank you for clearing that up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliways Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 (edited) Accuracy>Strength>Power>Surge>Crit AFAIK I'm with you OP, I think surge is actually better given the fact that Carnage gives us guaranteed constant scream crit spam EDIT: oh, I was totally thinking in PvP. Changes a bit PvE. Edited January 27, 2012 by miliways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcaciaDragon Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Accuracy>Strength>Power>Surge>Crit AFAIK I'm with you OP, I think surge is actually better given the fact that Carnage gives us guaranteed constant scream crit spam EDIT: oh, I was totally thinking in PvP. Changes a bit PvE. Accuracy is pointless as Carnage as we hit the cap VERY EARLY. Go for Crit until around 30% and then go for power. Surge will just come with gear, no need to go out of your way to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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