They are a very nice combo, however the stats on T9 is superior enough to beat this. At least for me it was.

SrS will be recalculated based on your current AP every time you refresh it with Chimera, so it doesn't really work to get a good one going and then refresh it the entire fight. (Likewise, if you pop a trinket halfway through the fight you don't have to reapply SrS.)

The only exception is straight damage buffs like Rune of Power or Shadow Crash. In those cases, you can indeed apply SrS with the damage buff and then refresh it throughout the fight (although you'll only see bonus damage on SrS ticks, not on Chimera-Serpent).

These have both been discussed in detail across multiple threads on this forum, so I recommend you improve your method of searching. That being said, to answer your questions:

1) Ultimately it depends on the length of the fight and how much risk you have of running OOM. Using CL on cooldown shows to be higher dps but it comes with a much higher mana consumption rate. If you can sustain your mana pool and use CL each cooldown, then you should do that. However, if you're at risk of going OOM, using CL after LvB can result in more damage done in a long fight. In other words, use your judgment on this one.

2) Once you hit the 4-piece T9 bonus, Lava becomes notably superior to ToW.

Could someone please post a BIS? - I have taken about 3 months off and looking to get back into Raiding with my Guild. Would like a list so I know where to start shopping!


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Hi, i saw a lot of rogues with all delicate gemmed but my spreadsheet shows bright cardinal is better for me (~1dps per gem) so what should i do? gem all bright or mixed or just all delicate?(my agi ep is ~1.9..)

Every rogue is different. It depends on your gear set up.

Such as an example: agi was extremely awesome when we wore 4pc T8.5, but when we broke it, in many cases the value of agi went down. Having low armor pen will result in the armor pen gem being worth less, but as you near the soft cap with Runestone or the hard cap, its value goes up.

It just differs. Find what works for you.

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Sort by item level. The ilvl 258 stuff is always best. And for the ilvl 245 items, the off-tier items are mostly identical to tier items anyway. There's not at all much choice in gear.

Unless you're doing 25-heroic you can equip whatever you feel like. For example, I like to tank with a high-haste/exp low-arpen set using both Grim Toll and Mjolnir Runestone in 10-heroic and 25-mans. Bears don't die regardless of what we wear.

At higher haste/sp levels ToW/Lava/Flame Shock/Lightning bolt are all within 15 DEP of eachother. Given it's poor scaling with haste and haste effects I tend to skip the Flame Shock glyph.

Not exactly - especially when it comes to jewelry. But that's certainly a good rough estimate.