
Originally Posted by Thargood
I sort of agree, in that I don't think the usual IP/DP/envenom raid spec works very well when undergeared. But there are other specs that work better in those low gear situations.
When I first hit 80 I was not trying to run the usual Mutilate raid spec, it always underwhelmed me at that gear level. Instead I levelled to 80 and did heroics for a while using an eviscerate spec with dual wound poison. This always felt like it worked a lot better. In late november I started hitting heroics in quest blues, I think I started out at around 1700-1800 dps on heroic bosses and went up from there, and was pretty much always top dps in any group at that time. But trying a IP/DP/envenom spec always felt horrible comparatively until I started reaching about 2200-2300 dps on heroic boss fights. It was around then that the usual raid spec finally started to feel that it was working better.
So, Kanan, I might recommend to you that you try fiddling with your mutilate spec to support eviscerate/WP/WP for a while until you gear up more from heroics. Instead of putting points in improved poisons, put them into improved eviscerate and get the evis glyph. Also, at this point you don't need to go all out for dps. Make sure you stick 1 or even 2 points into Improved SnD, it just makes it a whole lot easier to keep SnD up while you're getting used to the spec.
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I was kind of thinking along the same lines, but I took it a step further, and went back to Combat. So, last night, I ran H CoS and did see an improvement. Unfortunately, I didn't break out my boss DPS, but I'm sure it was higher. On trash, I was doing ~1300... but then again, that's a lot of FoK on weak zombies. Regardless, I'm running WP/WP/Evis. I will give that some time, then go back and see how Mutilate goes after some Heroic gear. After all, being that Assassination is a viable raid spec, and arguably, THE spec, I do need to be comfortable with it.