Warning for Aereus: Trolling

Kaubel · 07/17/08, 4:44 PM

Post: [Rogue] PvE DPS / WotLK Discussion
User: Aereus
Infraction: Trolling
Points: 0

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This is part of the previous infraction.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Aldriana

If I'm reading you correctly, you're looking at switching swords to get back closer to the Expertise cap. But what's the benefit to doing so? Expertise is, after all, just a number; what matters at the end of the day is not whether you have 2 expertise or 20 expertise or 200 expertise, but how much damage you do. And as DEL is usually pretty clearly inferior to Savagery, I'm not seeing much benefit to the switch. Being at 21 Expertise with Savagery seems like a perfectly reasonable option.

So my recommendation would be: perform whatever trinket manipulations needed to get back under the Expertise cap, but keep using Savagery.

What the wonderful "spreadsheet lackies" say is that the MAEP of the Savagery and Longblade are about the same, with Longblade maybe ahead by like 2 MAEP. So the swap would at least not be a downgrade, but would allow removal of the Shard of Contempt since the 44 expertise rating on it wouldn't be needed anymore -- which WOULD give a boost in DPS then. Being at 21 Expertise would largely nullify the benefit of swapping out the Shard in the first place.

Vulajin: Some professional criticism -- Your spreadsheet has made it impossible to have a civil discussion anymore. Nearly every thread I see now is "spreadsheet or gtfo" trolls that hijack everything. I'm sorry but your spreadsheet isn't freaking Gospel. It doesn't work well on OpenOffice, and I don't own or want to own a copy of Excel. It was also incredibly undershooting my DPS for Mutilate comparisons, which makes me doubt the accuracy of it in general.