All of that is really easy for a hardcore player to do, but for middle of the road player or casuals it’s a taller task. There’s an implicit assumption of prior know-how. Someone who already has a deep, innate knowledge of the game mechanics involved can easily understand the concept, the benefits, and the steps required. For everyone else, you’re talking mystic mumbo jumbo for some intangible result. That you’re also asking them to shell out time and effort (including downloading another addon, which is a big turn off for some people) doesn’t help the matter.

It’s a different perspective, but it’s an important one for anyone leading a guild or a class to keep in mind when they bring up these kinds of finer min/maxing points to players who aren’t already heavily invested in the mysterious inner workings of the game.

For example, if when equipping my +healing weapon I have 80% of the mana pool that I do when I equip my high mana weapon then what should be the % to switch to the healing set, and what % to switch back.

Am I the only one that can’t seem to get it configured right? I just have to tinker with everything and then break it.

I often just switch manually dragging the weapons to a bar. I used to use ItemRack to make up sets too. And I also agree that it’s not “hardcore” or even min maxing. I even used this strategy for 5-man bosses back in “vanilla” WoW when it was advocated on worldofwar.net forums. It’s great to have a huge healing pool then have some +heal for breathing room, rather than being forced to choose. Why vendor a weapon that’s still useful, carrying 2or3 is no big deal.

You need to be very hardcore for this to be an option, and not just because it means spending time and energy to obtain, gem and enchant an additional piece of gear. There’s a level of knowledge and attention to detail required that tries the limits of even hardcore players.

The bottom line is if you can make use of weapon swapping it’s nifty, but for the most part this kind of extreme min/maxing is unnecessary.

I also have Outfitter set to not automatically change outfits. When I’m about to pop an Innervate, I click on the icon on the Outfitter bar for my set with the best +int weapon (which right now is PvE +heal). Since you can only change weapons in combat, it only changes the weapon, but will change everything else once you leave combat (the afterthought concept here is the winner for me). Once innervate is up, I click on the original set again.

Outfitter even has a scripting mechanism with it, so if you wanted, you could customize it to automatically cast Innervate on yourself when you switch to a given set.

So what’s the highest possible amount of intellect that can be obtained from a weapon? (I’m assuming a staff with sockets and a +30 Int enchant applied).