Of course there's also the bizarre nature of the side effect of the enchant. Anyone is going to have to think about getting an enchant that screws you over for solo and pvp. Do they expect us all to get two sets of weapons? I'm not sure what the thinking behind this "upgrade" to mongoose was. Caster enchants don't carry similar penaltys do they?

Going from an enchant that actualy makes you dodge more when solo to an enchant that actualy makes you take more damage is strange.

I'm not sure, exactly, but I'd say that doing nothing and potentially wasting a little energy, or doing one more combo builder and potentially wasting one cp proves to be more efficient than a one point eviscerate (small damage at the cost of 1cp and 35 energy) over time.

e: 35 energy, hurr

more e: we're talking averages (as is the spreadsheet) here, there are undoubtedly some cases where what I said is incorrect. These days I just let my cycle smoothly vary over the course of a fight depending on how the rng is treating me. I need to sit down and do the math on that at some point. I suspect that while it may be locally better it averages out worse.

According to Vulajin's spreadsheet, hit rating seems to be better than crit EVEN above poison hit cap, and AP better than agi

Those are only rough estimates of the EP values for people to start with. They may not be tailored specifically for your particular set of gear/stats.

I don't see anywhere on his site where he cites exactly where or how he gets those equivalence values that he uses.

I wouldn't trust it, but the list is useful to see all the relevant items in a list. Use the spreadsheets if you want to actually weigh upgrades though.

I'm finding that mutilate does significantly more damage than combat fists(with comparable weapons). With my gear, the spreadsheet seems to back this up to the tune of a 200 dps difference. Is my case isolated, or are you guys finding that mutilate is pulling away as the dominate spec?

Have you selected a murderable mob type?

What do you have the fight duration set to?

Combat is most powerful when it can make the most out of it's cooldowns, and when the mob is not affected by murder. It also provides significant 'off the sheet' advantages that allow it to compete with mutilate by providing more utility, better burst, more AoE, and more reliable quick target changing.

Changing from combat to mutilate resulted for me in an increase of 150 dps, certainly not marginal.

I tried using the Wowhead gem stat links in the OP and to my surprise found the AGI gems rated on the top when everything else points me to AP gems as being the best for me with my current gear. After tweaking the weight stats even beyond normal (setting AP to five or even 10 times that of other stats) I realised that the pure AP gems aren't shown at all when using weight stats on Wowhead. Not sure why this is the case, but something to have in mind I guess.

Edit: Fixed it. It seems that using "Melee attack power" produces no results when filtering on gems/items. Using "Attack power" found under Offensive stats worked. Might want to update the links in the OP accordingly.

Great guide. Could you possibly add a section that explains good addons to use? Like RoguePowerBars to track Hunger For Blood, Slice and Dice, Rupture... that kind of thing. As well as Slice Commander or NugComboBar? These are things that people might want to look into to make it a bit easier to keep track of rotations.

Being the standard thought most gave prior to WotLK was "white dmg is king" is there any point or reason now to go past the poison hit cap?

For example I sit at 380 hit rating atm. For boots I have the Argent Crusade Boots of the Never Ending Path which offer a good amount of HR. Am I better served using a lower lvl item that gives a tiny bit more AR, Crit or Exp?

Downloaded OpenOffice and am going to try and get the hang of spreadsheets but even with the numerous pages in this thread I tend to remain a little lost in how HR has changed since BC and fret about dropping it too much.

Also concerning Mutilate weapon use. I am currently at a 10-man lvl and my options seem to be Librarian Paper Cutters, Titansteel Shanker and Namlak's Sticker. I assume the Paper Cutter is the best match for OH but is it the ideal for MH given the weapon dmg of the other two?

Thank you.