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George Raft
Managing Bonus Rolls
If you are Opal the Optimist, you know that a bonus roll has a 15% chance of success!
If you are a Grumpy Gus, you know that a bonus roll has an 85% chance to fail.
We all know that there is a Bad Luck Prevention mechanic. This means that if you don’t win a roll, your percentage goes up and up until you are sure to get a goodie.
In all, we should keep the Bonus Roll in perspective: a fun little thing we can do and not much more.
We are two weeks into World Bosses and Raiding. I’ve been blindly rolling with the thought that anything would be a welcome upgrade. Now that we are in the groove, it is time to target pieces and think about what could be done.
There is no tier to be won. I’m of the opinion that we should look at World Bosses closely and then target the only fun thing we can win: a trinket that can proc or be “on use”.
In the comment section here, an amibtious player put together a nice table with all the World Bosses. We can see by which boss is up each week and decide via the table if a bonus roll is worthy.
Each boss drops a ring/trinket/cloak so you’d never roll for that. Each World Boss has an individual relic that could drop. I see Flotsam drops a Life relic which would be nice on a healing Druid; maybe that would be cause for a roll.
Otherwise, each boss specializes in a single type of gear; head, legs, feet etc. Look at your gear and decide if it is worth it on your bonus roll.
Icy Veins has a nice class gear break down which points me to Ursoc, the Cursed Bear God for a trinket with a proc called Heightened Senses. That would be my targeted bonus roll until I get that piece!
Beyond that, I need to decide. Save my Bonus Roll and join a pug for another shot at Ursoc? That is a bit extreme for this early in an expansion. I’ve targeted bosses and only used rolls on them for a specific piece but that was super late in WoD.
I’ll use my next roll, since we get three a week and cap at six, on the Vial of the Nightmare Fog off the four Dragon boss.
Bonus Rolls can be a fun little thing and we should not get are hopes too far up. Still, it is always good to plan.
Happy Hunting and may all your hits … be crits.
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