I also put 3 points in dodge, 2 in sinister strike, and 2 in parry. To my knowledge, you can parry anything that you can dodge. However, I believe that when you parry an attack your next attack is hasted by a small amount (up to 1 second?). One probably insignificant thing to note is that you cannot parry while disarmed, while you can still dodge.

Mobs dodge 360 degrees, but players can only dodge attacks from the front.

One more thing I was wondering about as it came up a few times recently: What do you do with excess energy?

To be more precise the scenario is that you are whacking away at the mob, you have 5 combo points on the target, another 5-6 seconds of Slice and Dice and are already at 80-90 energy. This probably occurs more often with 17/24/10 than with 16/25/10. What do you do in this case?

I see three possible alternatives:
- Do another backstab before SnD and do not care about the lost combo point.
- Do SnD now, loosing the 5-6 seconds, but with the still full energy bar be sure that you will effortlessly be able to produce the necessary 5 cp for the next SnD.
- Do another finisher (Eviscerate or Rupture) and use the full energy bar to rebuild to 5cp SnD.

I personally feel option 3 is the worst alternative. What do you think?

I would just backstab.

Actually assuming it was something like p1 cthun (sit down fight) Id be tempted to do 2. Relentless strikes makes SnD free, so your not really loosing anything doing it early vs late, just means you can start on the next SnD early.

It's been discussed but in watching two guilds do it I have yet to ever see Vek turn on a rogue and chase down.

So maybe it's one in a million.

I use rupture on emps as do 2-3 other rogues in my guild. After months of killing em, neverpulled aggro off it once.

Initial aggro is to high to pull of aggro even with a 5 point rupture. Else it would be impossible to tank Vek with a warrior. I`ve heard that the proximity aggro after port values at about 3000 points. A rupture will tick for about 980 if I remember it right. Factor in the rogues immanent thread reduction and you are nowhere close to pulling aggro.

Alright, cool. What you guys have mentioned is what I was basing my opinion on - that rupture is nowhere near enough damage to overtake proximity aggro. Because of the way the fight's set up, all of the rogues are constantly rupturing to get as much dmg out as possible, so it seemed totally counterintuitive to stop ruptures on the basis that they might, every million or so ticks, pull aggro.

The only thing I've seen pull hate off the prox (as a single ability) was a Curse of Doom that ticked about 2s after the port happened (just after they unstunned). Rupture's got nothing on a 4K DD. Our rogues are also all using rupture, yet to have that be a problem.