Greywolf59
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7 months ago Second thing I would like to tackle is Haste. The zombies should snapshot the stats at the time of cast. For my test I have used lvl 70 Dummy in Dalaran. 1st summon: Potion of Speed, Troll's Berserking, haste from gear: 214 – 153 melee hits, 88 Claws
2nd summon: no buffs, just haste from gear: 214 – 152 hits, 88 Claws
3rd summon: brought shaman for Bloodlust, no other buffs, haste from gear: 214 – 152 hits, 88 Claws
4th summon: no buffs, Unholy Presence, haste from gear: 214 – 152 hits, 88 Claws
So it seems that Army of the Dead does not snapshot the haste stats on summon. They should benefit from Unholy Presence, Bloodlust/Hero being active when cast is started, haste stat buffs both in form of Haste Rating and Attack/Cast speed, however they do not benefit from any of these. There was one extra attack when Potion of Speed was used and that pretty much seems like absolutely random occurence (400 haste, 8 ghouls and just only 1 extra attack in total). This problem might be shared with other Guardian Pets.
Resources: https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Army_of_the_Dead?oldid=1963894 https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Army_of_the_Dead https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/spell=42650/army-of-the-dead#comments:id=989522
SIDE NOTE: Untalented Risen Ghoul summoned by Raise Dead benefits from haste snapshotting correctly and also does not get any misses or dodges.
Rushor
So I have found some issues with the Army of the Dead and the ghouls it summons.
The ghouls were getting misses and dodges on lvl 70 target. – My stats: Blood DK two handed, 26 expertise, of which 6 points are given by Veteran of the Third War talent. Hit chance: 261 (7.96%). +3% spell hit from Virulence. – Lots of dodged and misses registered on targets of level 80 in dungeon and even on lower targets.
Example A: Fight with King Dred on Normal Difficulty (lvl 76 iirc)
Example B: Level 70 Dummy in Dalaran
I do also notice the low chance on critical strikes, however I am not versed on how critical strike chance works with uncontrollable pets. Just for information crit chance of my DK is 37.81% (475 Agi for 10.8% and 919 crit rating for 20.02%). Both Army and Bloodworms seem to have about 5% fixed crit chance for Melee.
https://www.wowhead.com/patchnotes=3.2.0 under "Classes: General" Note: I did increase my hit rating to 271 for one more quick test run on 70 dummy just in case, the results were the same.