Does anyone know how much offhand weapon speed factors into DPS? Shadowpanther lists a 1.8 speed dagger as being the best offhand, yet I find this hard to believe given vulajin's post where he speculates that each .1 speed faster = 10 DPS. Specifically, I am comparing blade of savagery to corroded saronite woundbringer. According to the think tank topic on rogue dps, if you have combat potency you should add 10 dps for every .1 faster, and with combat swords spec add 5 dps for every .1 speed faster. Since blade of savagery is .4 speed faster than corroded saronite woundbringer, that adds up to 60 weapon dps. Then there's the stats to consider, which I have no clue how to factor in with weapon dps. I need some sort of point system that includes weapon dps and stats to compare gear, the pve dps thread in the thinktank section is old, and is only for armor not weapons.

Question: Is Subtlety now a dagger/backstab tree rather than a Hemo tree? No, I don't plan on raiding Subtlety, just curious.

From a raiding sub standpoint, it's a 'Spam Eviscerate and who cares what kind of weapons you use' tree.

If you do need to dump energy, backstab is probably better at that than hemo fully talented though.

Shadowpanther is still sorting stuff out, and his dagger charts are screwy since he has two of them, and one is still using the old mutilate formula. Other gear he has listed is still questionable in priority since my spreadsheet showed dps loss when equipping one of his "upgrades". His site is still pretty good for gear planning but try spreadsheeting first before making quest reward choices. There are a few where the reward is a fist, sword, or dagger, and the choice is a bit rough unless you know exactly how you're going to spec through 80. His quandary is the difference of specs and the viability of both, combat sword/dagger needs a different oh dagger than a mut build, but one sheet of weapons can't illustrate that, so he's probably going to have to make separate sheets for different specs.

Make no mistake, Blizz wants you to use 1.8 daggers, there are more of them than any other in wotlk.

are you including dodge in those numbers as well(from the agility scale) or are those from a pure dps standpoint?

I've made a basic Tricks of the Trade macro that I've found fairly useful:

Casts Tricks on your target if it's friendly (i.e. you pick a person), and if not - that is, you have a mob or nothing targetted, it checks if you have a friendly focus target, otherwise casts on target of target. General idea is, top priority is you picking someone (say an offtank before a pull), then setting a friendly focus target for it (another rogue), and for just using it, it goes on the tank of the mob you're hitting.

If anyone has recommendations for how it could be made more useful, I'm very open to suggestions, as I'm a fairly novice macro maker.

Was wondering how long it is taking people to kill mobs in WotLK. I am level 75 running 4/5 brutal gear and guardian and kill a mob every 17 seconds with my sub spec. Is this far enough below par that I should respec?

In Kara level gear with the badge Offhand and S1 Mainhand, I am killing most mobs in the duration of a Cheap Shot->Kidney Shot chain. I am having problems with Kidney Shot being on cooldown when I need it for the next mob.

As has been noted numerous times, movement is playing a larger role in boss fights. How will this affect our already "lagging" dps vs. hunters/casters and such? We tend to shine with tank/spank fights so with less of those, should we really be defining our 'dps' with optimal conditions that only come about when pluto moves into capricon and its a fullmoon on every second thursday ---

so..

1. Will the uptick of boss fights that require movement infringe additionally in a negative light on our dps?

2. Should we define our dps, not on the very unlikely circumstances, or more of an average?

I just remember reading all these rogues waxing poetic how when they were dual glaived fighting brutallis, they had monster dps -- but when you place them in an any other boss, fight - rogues aren't #1. I only say this because being tops on one single target tank/spank fight does not define a damage dealer, or even two boss fights - for that matter.

Will the Rupture buff from the talents Bloodspatter (@ 2/2=20%) and Serrated Blades (@3/3=30%) stack?

If so what would the final percentage be, additive 50% or 56% if they are applied one on top of the other?

Or are they mutually exclusive?

Will allow you to use the same macro to set your focus w/ a right click.
Being able to override focus for ToT with a modifier is something I'm playing around to figure out, but would be really nice.