Zaasu

Yes, once the patch lands, all items will be updated, regardless of whether they are already obtained or not.

The guide has hereby been updated for patch 1.7. A fix for the macro section along with general polishing is coming shortly.

Hello Bonob, Thank you for taking the time to read my guide and give feedback. I have added the Frigid Ring, but the remaining "[...] of Frozen Wrath"-items, I have purposely decided to leave out as they are not "directly" obtainable. They either require an unreasonable amount of farming or a large amount of gold. Kind regards, Zaasu

Thank you for providing a useful and appropriate response. I concur with your conclusion, BRD has become way too much of a hassle. It might be slightly better in terms of gold yield than DM:N and DM:E, but it requires far too intensive attention to be a viable option for me. I'm quite simply exhausted after an hours farming and have therefore resorted entirely to DM farming (primarily DM:E).

Hi, Moraknar, I'm happy that you've found my guide useful! To answer your question, yes, I plan to implement a major update within the next weeks time. This will accommodate the new patch, general polishing of the guide as well as the implementation of two new sections: MACROS and STAT PRIORITY. Stay tuned!

Corrected. Thank you!

Listen bud, if you don't like it, don't use it. Your feedback is both vague, condescending and unappreciated.

Once again, thank you for the positive feedback, Kolmar. I have now corrected the mentioned mistakes. I will correct the broken links and find appropriate alternatives as soon as possible.

I'm sorry to hear that you feel this way about my guide. It is still a work in progress. Writing a guide is very time consuming and working full-time I only have the hours I'm left with. If you have some constructive feedback I'd be happy to hear it.

Think of Arcane Power as nitro for a car, it will improve your performance temporary but burn out your engine. At the entry gear level for a raid, being close to pre-raid bis, we will most certainly oom ourselves before the end of the encounter, as such I do not find it worth taking as we would have to pass up the 2nd rank of Arctic Reach and our only viable survivability of the spec: Iceblock. That's "why the hell" I'm missing Arcane Power. At later gear levels it will surely be worth taking, but not for the people this guide is catering to.

Yes, sorry. That's what I meant. Here's the spreadsheet: https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=34186

Based on this I decided to confirm it my putting your proposals through a spreadsheet, and you are correct. However, the shoulders + boots would be the BIS option taking PvP items into account, but given that rank 8 is a lot "harder" to achieve than rank 7 I understand your argument. I have altered the list accordingly.

The spell damage / critical strike chance ratio differs in gear level, in other words, the more spell damage you have, the more critical strike chance becomes worth, thus there's no short cut in determining which is better. I have however found a spreadsheet for calculating it based on ones current gear, so I will calculate the BIS and return back with which item is superior of the above mentioned proposals.

Thank you for clearing this up, "The Band of the Penitent" has now been removed.

Hello Kolmar, Thank you for your feedback. I have now removed the "Crystalline Threaded Cape", corrected the typos regarding "Gordok's Handwraps" and "Riptide Shoes", and added the alliance version of both "Champion's Silk Shoulderpads", "Blood Guard's Silk Footwraps", and "Eye of Orgrimmar". Regarding "The Band of the Penitent" I am unsure whether or not it only applies to physical critical strike chance as I don't recall WoW differing between the two, unless directly specified. Thus I am leaving it on the list, pending further investigation. Kind regards, Zaasu