Kheldul at Hunter DPS Dungeoneer: Cloaks do not drop in the Dragon Soul raid. There are a whole bunch of cloaks that are Firelands tier or better which we might have. But really only three of them look good. (And I don’t mean for transmogrification.) Those three are the following:
1: Lord Rhyolith’s Dreadfire Drape. It’s old Firelands and item level 378.
2: Lord Rhyolith’s Heroic Dreadfire Drape. It’s pretty pimped at item level 391.
3: The Batwing Cloak. It sounds great and has the highest item level at 397.
Okay so what’s the problem to uncover? They all do look pretty good. They do, but the Batwing Cloak has less agility than not just the heroic FL cloak, but the normal FL cloak drop. If we assume non-heroic gemming, then the stats work out like this: . . . Read full article
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The issue here is you have to have had the Dreadfire drape in the first place. My guild dropped Ryo on normal and Heroic multiple times. But with feral druids, rogues, and hunters all vying for that back piece the competition was fierce to say the least. Numerous players hoarded their DKP specifically for that item, and thats for when it would drop….which was seemingly NEVER! My 10 man raid team saw it twice….one hunter, 1 feral druid got those. My 25 man team saw it drop twice as well…one hunter, one feral druid again.
Now couple this with finding groups who even want to go back and run FL>..let alone on Heroic mode….yeah, chances getting increasingly lower.
I would also add that the raw dps from the pieces (Batwing, Dreadfire heroic, and dreadfire normal) equate to 1630, 1573, 1425 respectively. Making the Batwing an upgrade from these raw numbers (see maxdps.com or wowbestinslot.com for the stats/figures on this).
i compared the cloaks with good ol’ FD on my toon (ilvl 396 BM hunter). batwing (with a JC gem) would be a 34 DPS loss compared to heroic dreadfire (with a JC and an epic gem).
so basically, the difference is very small and it is probably not worth the pain of doing FL heroic unless your guild is running it anyway (like us, we farm another staff and the rag mount).