Originally Posted by Mjollnir
Horrible advice.
If you have rage, burn it. The whole warrior class revolves around getting rid of rage that white hits generate. The mindset you should adopt is 'rage is your enemy; get rid of it'.
[Edit] For clarity: this is in an endless rage senario, such as being raid buffed with group compositions intact.
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If you're sitting at 100 rage permanently in the <20% region, you'll get more DPS done by switching to slower weapons. Slightly less rage income, but overall it'll increase your damage when you take windfury and such into account.
Let's assume you're in the <20% region, and you've got 100 rage and that you have the 2pc T6 bonus. For BT, I'll take my own situation as an example, my gear isn't perfect yet. With an Enhancement shammy I'm sitting at ~3900 AP, without any procs.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong with the stuff below, I'm doing the maths from the top of my head here.
- A full 100 rage execute does 925 + 21*88 =
2773 damage. Assuming you gain 25 rage back, you do another 925 + 21*13 =
1198 damage on the next GCD. Total of
3971.
- BT would do (3900*45) / 100 =
1755 damage. Leaves you with 70 rage but as above, over the GCD you gain another 25 rage, resulting in 925 + 21*83 =
2668 damage for the following Execute. Total of
4423.
Quite a big difference if you ask me, and depending on your gear, the 4pc T6 bonus can make BT even more valuable, as can several consumables/procs.
That's why I told him to use BT if he spikes past 30 (but ONLY then). Personally, I'm generally at ~25 rage during execute phases, sometimes it jumps up a bit with a few white/windfury crits in a row, I hit BT once and continue executing. As far as I know, this is what most do; and it works fine for me. I also don't switch to faster weapons during the Execute phases, as I already have enough rage for an Execute every GCD.
DISCLAIMER: Math might be flawed, but this is how I thought it worked; if it's different let me know please.