Armor Penetration in PvP...
10:44 AM
Okay, so we picked up this Blood DK for a 3v3 team in season 7... we've been practicing a lot and he hits like a truck launched from space. He stacks ArP and just absolutely destroys high-armor targets... so it got me thinking:
"What if I stacked ArP as well (instead of Agi)?"
So I got to thinking about my sets... do I even HAVE any ArP gear that I can run with in PvP?
Okay, so I need to keep the 4-set bonus for Feral (or do I?... yeah I think I do...), so let's see, I have the T8 helm, that has ArP on it. Sweet, I've got a ring with ArP on it. Sweet, I'm wearing bracers and feet with ArP on them...
All tolled, without looking for more gear or gemming for it, I have 201 ArP. After looking through WoWHead for ArP-grades (lawl), I find that I can farm the non-heroic ToC 5-man for a belt upgrade (I'm lazy and still have a Hateful belt >_<) with 47 ArP on it, and there are 2 easy ring upgrades with ~40 ArP each on them AND a socket a piece (which is better than my current ring).
That would put me up to ~290 ArP without gems... uh ohz...
Okay, I can get the epic ArP gems for 10k honor and a guild-mate cutting them... and I have all these arena points laying about with really nothing to use them on...
If I get these two rings, I will have 14 sockets and 1 meta... one of those gem slots has to be a green (to cover the blue/yellow reqs of the meta), leaving 13 gems for ArP... at 20 ArP rating a piece. Well blimey, that's 260 more ArP rating, which would bring me above the 550 ArP mark...
Holy hell... that's basically 45% armor ignore... before FFF which would bring it to 50% Armor Ignore.
... YEAH ... I think we're gunna go down this road...
EDIT:
DOH... there's Diminishing Returns on Armor Penetration above 7616 armor >_<
It's still extremely strong, but just not AS extremely strong.
August 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM
You might want to hold off until you have one of those PvE ArPen proccing trinkets.
I think those are what combine with ArPen on gear to really bring the pain.
Saw a QQ thread on AJ a few months back from a priest with 1000 Resil who at an 11K FB crit through Pain Suppression. The feral druid who did it later came into the thread to say "Yeah, that really happened. You can stop doubting the priest. Check out my hawt PvE armor pen setup."
August 26, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Who is this Jon guy that keeps making comments? I came here to make fun of you for not having any comments. Jon here has ruined my day.
You win this time Kain...
August 27, 2009 at 7:37 AM
In YOUR face Jacob!
Jon, oh boy... I'll post some maths later today if I have the time illustrating the relative awesome-ity of Armor Pen, even if you can't hit the hardcap.