I really like the way you've restructured your guide to account for some of the 'what ifs' and play style preferences. I personally prefer the Evisc route even though you've shown the value of rupture.
I'm not BiS yet but I found the extra haste helped me a lot when I was getting beat by rogues with less ArP and less hit than myself. Breaking down the recount and skada damage I found it was the instant poison procs and extra strikes / sinisters that were causing me to slip down. Gear comparing revealed they had pieces of gear that had haste which I don't have yet. Your adjustments to the recommend crit to aim for makes more sense now than from your original posting.
Despite my preference for Evisc I do look for useful moments to pop a rupture during encounters, specially when I'm going to have to move or fight mechanic is going to yield me incapacitated for a few seconds (PP, BQL fear, BPC pushback from Valanaar's empowered vortex, Saurfang just before beasts pop and I don't have KS or BF CD's etc. etc.).
Very nice job overall with maintaining your guide over time.
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Edited: September 9, 2016
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looks like they fixed eviscerate according to the changelog
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They're not very good about keeping up with publishing change logs with each update patch release (trends show at least 3-4 patches go out before we finally see changelogs). Fluffy confirmed in his bug report about 4 days ago he noticed Evisc was fixed
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In that PoV you seem to be using double mongoose, is it for testing purposes or do you find it superior to double berserking?
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I was wondering the same thing although his armoury still shows double berserking on his weapons.
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My god. Am being stalked so badly all the time xP. Who knows maybe double goose's better maybe not :'). See it for yourself :p
But yea am updating teh guide, whenever I think of something better to add or to change
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You have tons of fans, be careful, some of those might have invaded your guild :PPPP
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Well it certainly shouldn't be. They have the same PPM so it mostly comes down to 400 ap vs 120 agi + 30 Haste. As far as stat weights go, the former has the edge. It's not a huge difference by any means - but a difference nonetheless. It's small enough that anyone could go into a raid with 2x Mongoose, observe great results anyways, and then erroneously conclude it to be superior.
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Since the proc rate is the same, berserking definitely looks to be the better option. I guess mongoose for testing purposes since eviscerate damage scaling is fixed and we all know how eviscerate works, useful on crits, not on non-crits. I guess if you think the crit added DURING the proc from 240 agility is going to give you a crit on the 1-2 eviscerates, that you are going to do during the proc, that it's superior to berserking. Of course, that's just plain silly. :P
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It's not for the Evi crits... As long as the goose double procs it imo outperforms the zerker. The ~4% crit is nice alongside with 300 AP(While fully buffed and due to GBoK) + the sparkling look is nice :>. Going from 61% to 65% or so crits on melee hits makes it awsm at least for me. But yea both enchants're pretty close to each other. I just went goose for the looks more or less.
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Amazing guide and I absolutely love it. Not just from that obviously hard work put into formatting & looks so people can easily see it, but for providing proof for what you've stated which is quite important when making these guides (Also, pointing out alternatives/workarounds).
Random cocky references directed towards certain situations are funny.
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Updated:
- Rotation added my hidden trump card xd
- Talents
- Crit suppresion for crit cap.
- Added some additional explanations of 2set vs 4set
- Added on what to do at ICC bosses + Halion
- Removed some of the cooky stuff c:
New bugs:
- Glancing blows doing 5% less damage. https://www.warmane.com/bugtracker/report/28494
- Cloak of Shadows specific bugs: https://www.warmane.com/bugtracker/report/31674 and https://www.warmane.com/bugtracker/report/31675
- Blade Flurry hitting a 2nd non-present target: https://www.warmane.com/bugtracker/report/31671
And finally. Only Prey on the Weak needs to get working 100%, the glancing blow damage needs to be fixed and combat rogue works more or less 100%.
Our normal DPS should be around 13-14k w/o the buff. So around 17-18k steady (on fights longer than 3 mins) with the 30% ICC buff. The 2 min burst DPS should be somewhere around 19-21k single target not with blade flurry hitting a 2nd target. Therefore we can't really beat mages and hunts who push into the 20kish+ w/o any probs all teh time.Edited: September 30, 2016
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Updated again. I got no idea what else shall I add atm.
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Off the top of my head:
- Some mention of Expose Armor. Rogues might very well be needed to maintain it in 10 man's, and even in 25 man's if your warriors die.
- Glyph of TotT and a note of its value, both DPS-wise and utility-wise - that extra 4 seconds of TotT on your tank is a huge threat bump, not just because of the extra threat being transferred from you but also because of the 15% damage buff on him that stays up longer - to put it in extremely simplistic (but not entirely accurate) terms, it increases the potency of your TotT by up to 66.7%.
- Weapon swapping and its applications. Swapping to an OH with anesthetic poison on it to shiv off an enrage, swapping to a 2.6 OH or a OH with IP on it for AoE or to burst down a mob that won't stay alive long enough for DP to stack on it fully, etc.
- Rough stat weights based off the BiS gear lists provided here, as well as at other various gear levels.
Just some things I'd add.
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Updated. 2lazy to add the stat weights my self. So if some1 wants to do them feel free so and ima update the guide again.
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