Hi im a combat rogue and was wondering if since im hit capped should i use AP gems or AGI Gems. I have looked at some other threads and it seems to be marginal or each has a different thing to say. Thankyou.

Quick Question about Set Bonuses, Would 4piece 7.5 outweigh the 2piece bonus for 7.5 and 8. Assuming i had 2 for both would it be a better idea to keep the 4piece bonus or take the 2 of each while i slowly build up to full 4piece T8?

DP does indeed fall off from time to time, even with perfect play and lots of +hit -- it's just a function of the RNG. That being said, I'm not sure it's an issue to be 'solved' per se -- it's unfortunate, but there aren't really any better options. All of the spreadsheets I know of already take this possibility into account, and even given the possibility it's still better to run WP MH/DP OH than anything else (as a combat rogue). Before the recent nerf to shiv there were times when it was worthwhile to shiv at the very last second if your DP was about to fall off, but I very much doubt that's true now.

The only way to know for sure is to plug in your gear to the spreadsheet.

For my scenario (combat), I found that the damage output from 2x7.5 combined with 2x8.0 outweighed the output from 4x7.5. After I later got my third piece of 8.0, I stuck it in the bank until I got a fourth piece so that I was never running without 2 set bonus' at any time.

It should be noted that I did find PVP to be the exception. For PVP, I reverted back to 4x7.5 instead of the combo 7.5 + 8.0 since the 5% energy discount was too good to give up.

yes. The net change once the GCD of the swap is taken into account (along with the negatives of having a slow OH on for ~4 seconds) is generally regarded to be a DPS loss.

People already switch in a secondary slow offhand with wound poison in PvP, and it adds a substantial amount of damage due to offhand normally using crippling poison.

If your deadly stack is already at 5, and you're not losing it during weapon swapping slow wound offhand, it will probably be a dps boost, but it requires timing and is probably hard to model correctly.

Edit: Someone replied between my reseach and posting, ouch! Sorry for a mid response question!

This is a question about Expose Armor, usually a rotation to avoid, but since the guild has no prot warriors available currently and the dps warriors (probably quite rightly) don't incorporate sunder into their normal rotation when no prot is present, i have little choice but to adapt.

I'll begin with stating the obvious.
Pre 3.1(/2?) Expose used to remove the same armor as a 5 point sunder if 5 combos were also used. It would last for 30 seconds no matter what.
Now it removes 20% of the targets armor as standard but lasts for up to 30 seconds depending on the points used up, a change i assume was made because Ulduar bosses have more armor and a 3k reduction would be irrelevant. Fine, no issues.

Questions are these:

- Should a rogue use a 5 point expose or should a dps stack sunders if no prot is present in the raid group?
- Does Expose remove more than 20% armor based on the armor pen of the Rogue?
- Is there any real reason aside the above as to why a 5 point Expose always overrules a 5 point Sunder?

If the answers were told before and I've missed in this 100-odd page thread apologies but given the recent patch change I'm not convinced they'd still apply?

Before someone says it, I don't need to be told that using Expose is going to eat into my DPS but since I'm leading it nobodys going to kick me :p

Any advice appreciated

Will do cheers, still don't really understand why Expose always wipes out Sunder though if they both remove the same

They remove the same in the end. Expose tacks on a 20% armor reduction off the bat. Sunder throws it on 4% at a time. So, they'll get that "A more powerful spell is already active".

Understood, appreciated (last time i ask questions at 3am >.<)

Read http://elitistjerks.com/f78/t37183-p...updated_3_1_a/

Don't shiv.

Use spreadsheets for specifics.