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I dont understand how people can think mutilate is weak without shiv or envenom...
It is easily the strongest 41 point spec in 2.0 as it stands now. I have never been able to take any other class out in cheap shot > kidney shot stun (not a true lock by any means) 100-0% - maybe really lucky backstab crits with prep or sf builds but not reliably.
Mutilate dominates as long as you can open and have the right talents. It relies on talents like no other spec, you MUST have imp kidney, find weakness and opportunity and you must have a poison on the target, the ealier the better. +dmg to poison talents are weak as hell but this spec benefits hugely from +chance to apply talents. Master poisoner and improved poisons are extremely strong because in my experiance it brings your first mutilate to almost a 90% chance (subjective) to have its 50% modifier.
The chain everyone has been doing since patch day: cheap shot > mutilate > 4/5CP kidney shot > coldblood mutilate (I have critted up to 2500 with this because it is the only mutilate, besides a tea'd 2nd that youll get all the bonus dmg modifiers up together) > mutilate > 5CP evis (barely have time or need it) and I have taken numerous people of each class, bar mages who can blink out of the kidney shot 100-0%. Never even considering how usefull shiv or envenom might be.
Deadly poison adds longer term dmg at the cost of gouge, I have been using cripping and instant generally, especially to save money by using rank1 crippling.
My gear is by no means fantastic, I have 25.5% crit and 840 AP unbuffed + hwl dagger MH fang faceless OH.
This absolutely will fail against people that have very high HP values since they will survive the initial lock but that is not many in the current BG system and you still have gouge to start a new chain.
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