◊ Quigon

You should always use HS when you have the rage to add it into a rotation. And it is clearly spelled out that it should be treated as a rage burnoff.

Now if you have improved Heroic strike and not improved sunder armor/devastate, the math I did at the time showed that even with white damage rage gains imp heroic strike was preferable. I will redo the math when I get a chance and post it here. So on that point I will look it up.

Edit:

I did this again and rechecked how it was done on the excel template (which was better than my own calculations which tried to turn rage into specific TPS).


The threat calculator DOES count for rage lost from using heroic strike.

You will notice the value of rage "Cost" for heroic strike is actually (the loss from white damage+15-1*HS.spec-1*focused rage).

Seems pretty fair right?

With improved heroic strike at 3/3, and no improved devastate (but focused rage), heroic strike comes out to be a more efficient ability. Counting ragecost from the white attack.

The issue is how you should handle the fact that a heroic strike swing does X amount of damage, that WOULD HAVE been Y amount of damage if it were a white attack.
If you are talking about threat per rage the values described above hold true. But in terms of relative threat per rage for HS should take about a 30% hit, and of course that is what matters.

I don't see any failure in your logic at least from first glance.