Like every PTS cycle I am trying to plan ahead for the update. To do this I need to know what is the actual scaling involved in procs and try and decide what is the best outcome of stats vs procs.
For instance I currently run a magtemplar.
Grothdarr
Auroran
Vateshran lightning
Maelstrom resto
Ring of the Wild Hunt
2 pieces of trainee
3538 spell damage and 19801 penetration with debuff and the lover mundus.
I run cost reduction and two regen on my jewelry with three heavy and four light armor pieces. I have a good balance of survivability, damage, and regen.
So the basic question is with my current setup how much damage am I losing on my procs and is it worth dropping Grothdarr for Symphony of Blades. Switching my regen enchants to spell damage and switching my weapon enchant to spell damage.
This should put me at 4234 spell damage and keep me at the relatively same level of regen. No change to penetration. Does this pump up all my remaining damage to equal what I was getting from Grothdarr?
By the way I don't buy what people are saying about this new proc change is going to be horrible. Sure people are getting high tool tip numbers but you can see that they are completely sacrificing penetration to do that. I doubt that those builds are going to hit any harder than my build with high penetration. The only thing I struggle with are high health regen builds, which is getting nerfed, and highly mobile ranged characters. I am all melee range. I basically have to force them into a close in fight.