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Boevis, I was saying that you can get away with having the first use a normal cycle, and the second use a pure-shred cycle, and have even more DPS than one being an actual mangle-bitch. The point is, if the one who is using a pure shred cycle is paying attention, they shouldn't have to waste any energy or anything else (as the maximum downtime for mangle 'should' be ~4 seconds) - obviously Mag isn't the best fight to use as an example in the first place, because (a) We use a similar strat (but last tank gets no.3 MD and I grab that to kill third) and I've never had a problem with using full DPS gear, and (b) because of earthquake and clicking, you can't really have a proper cycle in the first place.

I also assume neither of your ferals have Savage Fury, which both me and the other feral in the guild does, and it means mangle isn't as much of a hit to DPS in the first place (and if you continually have the same person being mangle bitch, you should consider getting them to spec it). The ashtongue talisman also comes out as being better than bloodlust if you do end up having a mangle bitch doing 2 per cycle, so if you can get it then that person should be using it (very few guilds that can, but its worth pointing out).

Edit: Just checking armoury: Who is vanquashing and why does he only have 1 point in shredding attacks? Even for PvP its probably the best talent you can get :/
It also appears Cowking, Praetorius and Vanquashing all have savage fury, while you don't (not sure if all of them are mains or not, but they're all the 70 ferals I could find in your guild). In that case, you end up with them having:

((305.46 * 2.25)+405)*1.1*1.3 = 1561.97
((305.46 * 1.6)+264)*1.1*1.2 = 993.61
Difference = 568.36.

It's not as clear cut as that anyway, but I'll leave it there as I'm still waking up atm.