Warning for Tofuu: 1. All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly.

• bartolimu · 08/19/09, 10:58 AM

Post: Pocket Guide to WOTLK (updated for 3.1)
User: Tofuu
Infraction: 1. All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly.
Points: 0

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Well, this is a new one on me. Mostly I have to warn people to capitalize sufficiently. In this case, you're actually doing it too much.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Tinwhisker

No, mutilate is fine.

Comparing BiS gear for both, it is projected to be behind Combat in many fight situations but that line of thinking is largely academic and the actual difference is not as large as some would seem to make it appear. The actual difference between the two will depend a lot more on what weapons you have to choose from, your own personal skill and the the mechanics of the fight than on projections made based off imaginary fights.

What is the difference between your so-called "imaginary fights" and the "actual fights"? The dps is calculated based on assumptions of a perfect dps situation, (IE, no movements, no dps downtime, single target dps, etc). the Very fact that Combat possesses powerful CD that can be used in conjunction makes it a much more viable raiding spec than mutilate which only becomes useful in single target dps. The model's assumption benefits mutilate in terms of damage prediction because mutilate suffers more if there are heavier movements or dps interruption. Mutilate has to outperform combat on single target dps by a large margin for mutilate to be a viable spec in pve especially with so much armor pen floating around in tier 9 gears.

I've Played mutilate before and mutilate only, Despite how you might feel about the spec, when You try to present your position or make a statement, please try to back them up with reasoning, and not with you personal preference. You can not merely state that "this line of thinking is merely academic and the difference is not as large" without telling us why or analyzing what you believe that the assumptions are. Please do not make claims of which spec is better because you don't want to see mutilate becomes worse than combat. by not presenting anything reasonable to back yourself up, that, however, is the impression you've left here.