So I'm getting some conflicting results between the spreadsheets and the guides, specifically about the issue regarding which hand to put which weapon (fast/slow or slow/fast).

On the FAQ, it says to put the highest DPS weapon in the MH, but in two different spreadsheets I am being shown that the opposite is indeed the case:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2536315/Muti....3-mcninja.xls
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2536315/Rogu...3f-mcninja.xls

What am I doing wrong, or am I in a unique situation where lowdps/highdps is actually better?

When you put the [Unsharpened Ice Razor] into the mutilate sheet, you left it checked for both 1.4 and 1.8 speed weapons, just fixing it so that it is only listed as a 1.4 weapon increases the dps by about 240 dps, then putting them in the [Twin Spike] MH/[Unsharpened Ice Razor] OH, you gain another 9dps, for a total gain of about 250dps.

For the Rogue Simulation Spreadsheet, always double check which weapon the Poisons are going on in the DPS Strat sheet, just setting it correctly increased your reported DPS by about 0.5%.

Always double check your data entry if something isn't matching up to what has become standard practice.

Hey guys,
I am not a very experienced WoW rogue, however after reviewing the popular rogue combat build (20/51/0) I was somewhat inclined to transferring anywhere from 1-3 talent points from improved eviscerate/improved poison/ruthlessness over to blood spatter, or possibly vile poison, being that rupture is one of the most important finishers available to rogues, besides SnD of course. Any thoughts, refutes, or comments on this perspective will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Not sure where to ask this.

I am currently soloing a few level60 bosses. Great fun. I just did the Eranikus event in Moonglade solo.

My question is about hitrating and expertise. When fighting mobs 20 levels below you, your hitrating and expertise are a lot higher than your miss and the mob's dodge and parry ratings. So I would expect that to optimize dps, it would be smarter to use stats like agility and haste. But level-60 bosses are not true level-60 mobs. They are "skull-level" bosses. And at level-80, skull-level means their hit/miss/dodge/parry ratings are "as if 3 levels higher than you".

So I'm wondering, do level-60 skull-level bosses have upgraded combat ratings ? If so, it would make sense to use my regular gear with high expertise and hit. But if I won't miss and won't get dodged or parried anyway, I might switch gear.

Has anyone ever tested lower-level mobs ?

There doesn't seem to be a general consensus that I can see on whether or not combat rogues should be putting rupture into their rotation following patch 3.3.3. I was hoping Mavanas or Aldriana or anyone else with a definitive answer could pop in and give a solid opinion on if it will be worth it.

I haven't had the time (and, I admit, at some level the inclination) to update my spreadsheet for 3.3.3, so I can't comment definitively on which will be better. But if you want my best guess... I suspect rupture will yield higher sustained DPS on Festergut/Saurfang type fights, but will respond less advantageously to more interrupted fights (like, Dreamwalker). So is it worth speccing into and using? My guess is that, depending on exactly which fights you're optimizing for, it probably is... but not necessarily by a lot. Optimally, of course, one could use dual spec to keep both a rupture-based spec and a evis-based spec and switch back and forth on a fight-to-fight basis, but that will obviously only work if you don't want to use your 2nd spec for PvP or Mutilate or whatever.

I can at least tell you, from the discussion I've read, that glyphing for rupture is not a superior strategy, because it doesn't make up for the lost raid DPS from tott glyph. As for running combat with rupture, the Java app has a way of modeling rupture for combat cycles, and in the 2 minutes I just spent playing around with it, I was seeing a net increase of about 100 DPS (12504 vs. 12610), using Aldriana's current character as a guide (I'm logged out in mut gear), and that's with the rupture glyph.

I'll wait to pass judgement on rupture until the various spreadsheets/apps all converge on an answer, but as it stands, I wouldn't start worrying about a new rotation just yet.

On a different note, is anyone else not all that excited about the possibility of incorporating rupture into a combat "rotation"? I find myself almost *wanting* it to not be worthwhile, but maybe that's just me.

The current (Aldriana's Combat) spreadsheet will automatically switch from Evis to Low Rupture (or High Rupture) once either of those rotations do more damage than an Evis only rotation does, given all the other inputs.

Might've already seen this answer on the forums, but once one gets to IceCrown etc... the chests at Onslaught Harbor can be picked to up LockPicking to 450.

From what I've seen, the rupture rotation seems to slightly increase the value of the 4pc T10 bonus since you're executing finishers a little more often with it. That said, I'm not sure it's enough to make anyone actually change the decision of whether or not to go for it though.

In reference to speccing out of Imp Evis and using the Rupture Glyph over SS for a High Rupture rotation, does anybody have updated ArP values for such a set up? Knowing that we're going to be doing weaker/less Eviscerates and more Ruptures, would gemming AGI overtake geming ArP in BiS gear?

I don't think any spreadsheets have been updated for 3.3.3 yet.