Originally Posted by zaxxs
However that said I do disagree with the poster taht said save rage for SS to the exclusion of all other concerns. Make use of whatever ability you can to use that GCD. I often have to substitute a Rev for a SS when i dont have enough rage and push the SS to the next GCD hopefully.
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Revenge should always be on cooldown, there's really no reason not to use it. It's the second most efficient threat per global cooldown and the most rage efficient move you have. At 2 rage per use, there's no way you won't have rage for it.
Saving rage for shieldslam depends on
why you're rage starved:
1) If it's because you're not getting hit very much, but when you do it's for a lot, then GCD management matters more. Brutallus is a fight where you use every GCD because you're wearing avoidance gear and rage will be lumpy as hell. You also have guaranteed rage income from meteor slash every 12 seconds when you're actively tanking. There's no good reason to save rage on a fight where you'll go 0 to capped in a second.
2) If it's because you aren't getting hit very hard each time the mob hits you, then you should be saving your rage to shield slam (after you've used revenge). Felmyst is a prime example of this. If you're under 50 rage, you should be saving your rage to shieldslam during non-corrosion times (I also drop shieldblock from my rotation). She doesn't swing at you during encapsulate, so you shouldn't be dumping your rage when you see her cast it at someone. When the corrosion cast bar comes up, then you go into "Brutallus" mode and dump every possible GCD until it wears off.
Any older raid content or 5 man content, you can pretty much be assured it's number 2 and not number 1. When you're not getting hit very hard, there's no danger of going over 100 rage and "wasting" the incoming damage. You have plenty of time to adjust if there's no danger of overfilling your rage bar on one hit. The only reason you use every single cooldown is because your rage bar doesn't go over 100. If it did, you'd care a lot more about efficiency for the times when you are at 0 rage.