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

• Aldriana · 10/26/09, 4:20 AM

Post: Cat DPS Guide for Dummies
User: Trihugger
Infraction: 1. All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly.
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Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Using terms like "ferlawl" makes you sound like an idiot. I can't decide whether that's appropriate or not.

Original Post:

With regards to the shred vs mangle glyphing:

You figure most of us have a trauma bot we love and adore and take everywhere. In which case the mangle glyph is 100% useless... and with our overwhelmingly amazing options left of berserk and shred... shred wins. Also, with said trauma bot, it is infinitely easier to get your three shreds in.

Not that I have any amazing math to go back and prove it with, but I want to give you guys what I've found with ferlawl DPS and when to shred with clearcasts. It's infinitely simplified by having the trauma bot because this way one can assume the bleed debuff is there, always was and always will be type mindset. You also can reasonably assume by the time rip is ticking down, shred is not going to increase the duration anymore.

Anytime I actually want to build CP's and clearcast goes off, shred wins. The free shred vs at worst a second of rake uptime wins as 100% general bleed uptime on any boss is a fair assumption in any raid. The only time it's actually "iffy" is when you're sitting @ 5 CP's with, usually, a lot of time on SR and Rip with like 6 seconds or something annoying like that. I'd say it depends on your gear at this point in terms of how much haste you run. Only reason I phrase it like this is because a lot of us are getting down close to low .6's, maybe high .5's, in terms of attack speed and the odds of chain omen procs are greater.

For the beginner, this probably isn't an issue and my advice would be to wait to be able to use the rip, just don't sit there at 100 energy AND with clearcasting, that raises red flags all across the board. Waiting to use the rip increases the chances of getting some nifty bursted CP gen the next time and maybe a chance to FB depending on how long you've got on roar at this point.

In the end... the phrase "be intelligent" about how to burn clearcasts really ends up being probably my take-home message, especially with it being as difficult if not more so than Rolf speculated earlier to prove one way or another.