Originally Posted by Shifft
I was testing out a 1s/5r cycle yesterday in serpentshrine (just trash + tidewalker), and it worked AMAZINGLY WELL. The only rogues in the raid were myself and another rogue who I've been mostly even with in damage in the past, and we were in the same group with battle shout and an enhancement shaman.
Damage meters for trash ended up with me doing 11.2% raid damage and him doing 9.5%, and for tidewalker attempts it was a significantly bigger difference than that, to the point that I still did more damage after being tombed three times to his none. He confirmed afterwards that he was doing the same thing he had always done, so I can only assume that 1s/5r is THAT MUCH BETTER than 5s/5r/3e or 5s/5r cycles.
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1s/5r is not significantly better than 5s/5r. With mangle and 25% armor reduction, you see less than a 4% dps gain. You are saying you gained almost 18%. Either you were using a really bad cycle previously, or he was not performing up to par, or maybe you were further ahead of him than you previously thought. Without mangle, you see about a 1.5% dps gain going to 1s/5r. What I'm saying is the math is not there to back up your conclusion. Something else changed that caused the gap to be that large.