I am interested in switching to an Armor Pen Marksman Hunter.  No, that's not quite right.  I'm interested in the number crunching to determine on paper if I would rocket my DPS through the roof.  The calculations don't look that favorable.  I could increase my DPS, but not like a rocket.  And I'd give up a lot of utility.
I have an armor penetration rating of 419 from gear.  That doesn't sound  like a large number when our hard cap is 1400.  That is  usually from prioritizing Crit over ArP.
I have 20 regular gem slots at the moment.  17 of the 20 slots are  slotted with agility.  If I swapped 19 of them over to ArP it would land me with a total 799 ArP rating.  It would only cost 3,800 gold if I got the raw gems and had someone cut them.
I only have the crappy ArP proc'ng trinket.  I probably can't get the raid one, but I could fairly easily get the better five man one.  Even still, that is only the soft-cap on-proc world.  Not exactly stellar.
And there's that 3,800 gold buy-in with a 3,800 gold reversal fee...
EDITED TO ADD: Oh!  And I'd probably feel compelled to put on two of my T9.5 pieces again.  I haven't studied it vs the T10x4 bonus.
Monday, March 8, 2010
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I'm staying Survival - I can understand how MM arpen spec can do better but I still find myself moving a lot in some raid fights and don't think I'd benefit from switching.
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good q.. so what better agility or ARP for MM hunter like Kheldul??
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